Caffeine is a stimulant, which means it increases activity in your brain and makes you feel awake. Low to moderate doses give you energy and help you concentrate. For most people, coffee helps fightfatigue, but it affects everyone differently. Coffee can make some people feel tired, though t...
"The whole purpose of places like Starbucks is for people with no decision-making ability whatsoever to make six decisions just to buy one cup of coffee. Short, tall, light, dark, caf, decaf, low-fat, non-fat, et cetera. So people who don’t know what the hell they’re doing, or ...
I haven’t had much summer. I long for cookouts and beach time, swimming and ice cream, seeing friends for iced coffee and pedicures, and yet, I have no energy to do any of this quite yet (at least as I write this). In fact, it takes everything that I have ...
Good, strong Swedish coffee in a konditori, with cardamom and cinnamon buns, budapests, and princesses (these are the names of various desserts). No such thing as decaf here. I’ve been carrying around (and not so much reading) the poetry of Swedish poetTomas Tranströmer. Here, his poe...
No such thing as decaf here. I’ve been carrying around (and not so much reading) the poetry of Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer. Here, his poem about espresso: The black coffee they serve outdoors/among tables and chairs gaudy as insects. Precious distillations/filled with the same ...