Fresh Starts & Heart-Healthy Bites Hello everyone! This is the first of what I hope will be many posts. I’ve blogged before, but this time around, things are a little different. Lately, I’ve been diving deep into heart-healthy, low-sodium diets—focusing on managing cholesterol, fat, and cutting out added salt. It’s a brand-new journey for me,…
DATE May 6, 2026 MOOD 😢 Well, I guess this is my attempt at yet another journal. Anyway, to the point: there’s a reason why I play solo in Warcraft and other games. I have a history with massively multiplayer online games, also known as an MMORPG, and I’ve just had trouble dealing with…
Good morning! It’s 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, March 25, 2026. It’s sunny and cool outside, and it’s coffee time. —– It’s been three months since I’ve written a Coffee Time entry. I don’t know why, but it’s been a wild and crazy winter—I’ll blame it on that. But I digress. I got to thinking the…
Good evening! It’s 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, December 31, 2025. It’s clear and cold, it’s New Year’s Eve, and it’s coffee time. We often think of fashion as purely aesthetic, but history tells us it can be a powerful psychological tool. The Mode à la victime (“Victim’s Fashion”) and the iconic red ribbon didn’t appear…
Coffee Time Blog 13: The Vacuum of 1971 – Desegregation in Columbus, Georgia Good morning! It’s 10:00 a.m. on Sunday, December 21, 2025. It’s sunny and cool outside, and it’s coffee time.—– I recently encountered a thought-provoking Facebook post about the racial landscape of sociology. It highlighted how personal social and cultural environments can limit…
Good morning! It’s 9:00 a.m. on Thursday, November 27, 2025. It’s clear and cold, it’s Thanksgiving 2025, and it’s coffee time.—– It’s Thanksgiving, and I hope you are all having a great one. Some of you get along with your families; some of you don’t. Some of you will nap in somebody else’s chair this…
Good morning! It’s 7:00 a.m. on Monday, November 10, 2025. It’s wet and cool outside, and it’s coffee time.—– Howdy y’all. This past weekend, I went shopping at Home Depot, intending just to pick up some containers I’d bought online for storage. Surprisingly, they had the same heavy-duty small containers as the discount stores, for…
Good morning! It’s 7:00 a.m. on Thursday, October 30th, 2025. It’s wet and slightly warm outside and it’s coffee time. ————————————– It seems I’ve been quite nostalgic lately. This morning around 6:30 AM, when I was walking Sascha on her short trip for a pee, I noticed a school bus picking up children in my…
Good morning! It’s 7:00 a.m. on Tuesday, October 28th, 2025. It’s windy and rainy outside and it’s coffee time. I may have touched on this before, but still…let the indefinite pronouns begin! I can’t recall which HBO special it was from, but two things comedian George Carlin said have stuck with me from his stand-up…