MissMeliss: Escribition

My mother no longer drinks real coffee.
By “real” of course I mean “the kind with actual caffeine,” and not “the kind that comes in cans with plastic lids.” She still prefers freshly ground, whole-bean coffee, she just wants it completely unleaded, sans milk or sugar. I suspect, if there were a way she could [...]

Some people look forward to the day after Thanksgiving – Black Friday – as the day on which they complete the bulk of their Christmas shopping, taking advantage of deep discounts offered by most merchants, and trading the retail equivalent of war stories over designer coffee after the fact.
I’m a fan of designer coffee [...]

There are few things that seem more urban to me than classic diners. Mostly an East Coast thing, and dying out even there, diners are uber-streamlined coffee shops where the coffee is strong, the burgers are greasy, and desserts generally run to things like rice pudding (heavily laden with raisins), and cherry pie.
The diner [...]

Among other things, today I:
– was awakened by a thunder storm in the wee hours of the morning. I stayed in bed to listen to the thunder, and then the rain, but the presence of the storm was not diminished by not walking outside to dance in the downpour.
– spent an unexpected [...]

Cold milk, strong coffee, and just the right amount of chocolate swirl together over ice to form the perfect combination of bitter, sweet, and creamy. The caffeine rush is a morning necessity for many, but for me, it’s best in the evening, when I need what my grandmother used to call “a little something.”
Of [...]

I stayed up late last night doing all the work I had for Monday ahead of time, so I could sleep late if I wanted to.
Instead, I found myself awake an hour before our alarms. I turned on a soft light and cuddled under the covers reading and texting friends, but then I’d had [...]

It wasn’t so much a lamplight day, today as it was a firelight day. With the sky a bleak and particularly chilly shade of gray, the temperature hovering around 30 degrees, and my husband of to company headquarters in Florida at dawn, I really wanted nothing more than to declare the day “Pajama Monday,” and [...]

One of the reasons I made the decision not to do NaNoWriMo this year is that every year I’ve done it I’ve been fighting against a huge reading mood – there’s just something about this time of year, when the days are sunny and warm, but at night it’s cool enough for firelight and flannel [...]