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by Kevin Burton Our younger cat Lakin is a great leaper, has a good set of lungs and is eager to communicate. And she’s wild about exercise. I should be so wild about exercise. You share your living space with two cats, you find out a few things. Like on a …
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by Karen Shimizu Food &Wine Bitty & Beau’s is a civil rights movement disguised as a coffee shop. Bitty & Beau’s has everything you could want from a neighborhood café. The coffee is hot and strong, there’s ample seating, and the free wifi encourages you to linger. But the experience it offers is rare …
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by Kevin Burton Do you know what cortisol is? Well I didn’t. But now a dietician is saying that you and I should delay our morning coffee because of it. Supposedly 10 a.m. is the optimum time for your first coffee. Sorry, but by the time the little hand reaches the …
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by Kevin Burton There is a recliner in my corner, beaten, battered and blue. On the night I received the keys to the Mancave I was told by the proprietor, “You can get rid of that.” But I kept the chair because it was beaten, battered and blue. You see my late …
by Kevin Burton Let’s get a few things straight right up front. We’re all friends here, yes? The various sugars, sugar substitutes, creams, potions, spices, flavors, elixirs – chief among them pumpkin of any kind – these things that otherwise upstanding people put into coffee, these things individually and collectively are an abomination. …
by Kevin Burton Have there been more impassioned articles written about the evil of alcohol or the evil of algebra? Who can tell really? But these twin menaces are linked in today’s word list from Merriam-Webster, words borrowed by English from Arabic: Algebra Anyone who has unpleasant memories of slogging through this …
by Kevin Burton This is a fun story, filled with cute kitties, but with a serious bummer at the end. On the first part of our June vacation, we came across Papa’s Cat Café in Columbia, Missouri. It was easily the most interesting tourist attraction we read about it mid-Missouri. I thought …
by Kevin Burton I am late to the great caffeine-vs-decaf debate. But if we take caffeine from our coffee, let’s certainly not throw it out altogether. Why not? Because caffeine is a natural insecticide, according to the New York Times and others. Yesterday I mentioned that I am considering switching to decaf …
by Kevin Burton Johann Sebastian Bach wrote an ode to coffee, which means I wouldn’t have to. His would surely suffice. By all rights though, I should. Most of us wanted to sample coffee as young teens, exploring the world of grownups. That desire was heightened by the fact that adults tried …
by Kevin Burton Those of you who have turned to Page 7 for cleaning tips have been disappointed for the first (almost) three years. Sorry. It’s not that I lack expertise in this area. I know cleaning. Just ask my wife. It’s safe to say she is amazed at my eagerness to clean, …
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