Winter Morning Coffee Conversations

Every morning we have an ambience with a fireplace crackling on the television screen, and the rain hitting the window. 
 

Conversation drifts to so many topics. 

Sending the same Christmas card to the same friend for 60 years is a quiet epic. The card becomes a witness. Ink ages, handwriting tilts, addresses change, but the friendship keeps showing up once a year like clockwork. It invites questions about loyalty, habit, and how tradition can be its own love language 

Childhood farm memories of horse-drawn wagons, sleighs, and cutters belong to a world that moved at the speed of breath and bells. Snow muffled sound. Harness leather creaked. And then the mystery of stolen harnesses, the giveaway trail left behind, 

Charles Dickens: A Life Larger Than His Novels  Dickens in the 1800s lived with one foot in hardship and the other in fame. Ten children filled his house with noise, needs, and contradictions. He campaigned for social reform while managing a household that sometimes strained under its own weight. His stories feel crowded because his life was crowded.

Baking brownies or chocolate chip treats is part science, and part comfort ritual. Melting chocolate chips slowly keeps them smooth and glossy. A bowl set over gently simmering water with frequent stirring turns solid patience into liquid reward. Then spread on brownies. The smell alone can reset a whole morning. 

Blessings for a Healthy and Happy Holiday Season