Have we sipped Van Houtte Dulce De Leche together before with its sweet smell of caramelized sugar? It has a bitter coffee taste with the floral undertones of vanilla. If we were having coffee, I would share with you that we finally got some rain and the smell of smoke has quieted. We still a… Continue reading Coffee
My coffee today is flirting with a bitter-sweet smell. The sharpest notes are bitter with hints of cooked syrup underneath. The taste is smooth. Because the coffee is hot as it flows over my taste buds my brain thinks warm, creamy, and caramel. If that is actually the case or just a trick of the… Continue reading Crave Coffee
My first impression of the scent filling the space is of warm peanut butter cookies fresh from the oven! That sweet and nutty cookie dough smell that is interlaced with the oily notes of peanut butter. The flavour palate is oily roasted peanut, mildly bitter with an almost vanilla fade out. Big thanks to Cookie… Continue reading Another Cookie Jar Coffee flavour
I watch it rise, the bottom seemingly dropping away. It’s a semitransparent blue, deceiving in its deadliness. Its apparent transparency is a trick of nature to draw in unsuspecting prey because although you can see the immediate area before you the vastness of its reach is extraordinary. The immensity allows undetectable threats to surface or… Continue reading Dropping Away
I love the smell of my coffee today. It fills the air with a sweet almost lime-lemon fragrance mixed with the bitter notes of coffee. I would expect this java to have an oily sheen, but it doesn’t. However, my first sip is reminiscent of oily coconut. Its flavour is both woodsy and roasted nut.… Continue reading Coconut Cream Pie Flavoured Coffee
Zombie Halloween: Goosebumps Most Wanted Author: R.L. StinePublished in 2014Publisher is Scholastic PaperbackAvailable in eBook, paperback (print length 192 pages) and Library BindingChildren’s Books on Halloween | Children’s Humour |Literature and Fiction for Children My children and I watched the Jack Black Goosebumps movie a few years ago. It was our first Goosebumps experience together.… Continue reading Zombie Halloween Book Review
Witch Wraith (The Dark Legacy of Shannara, #3) Author: Terry BrooksPublished in 2013Publisher is Del RayAvailable in eBook, paperback, mass market paperback (print length 512 pages), Hardcover & AudiobookShannara | Fantasy Action & Adventure | War & Military Action & Adventure The following review was originally posted on Goodreads: December 2021. “What you need is… Continue reading Witch Wraith Book Review
The colours blur together: yellows, pinks, oranges, and light blues. Moving shapes like the coloured glass of a kaleidoscope. Each colour and pattern are representatives of my jumbled emotions. The colours bleed out to shades of red—a warning of danger-bearing emotions—as the sequence continues to dance. I’m trapped, glued to the eyepiece as the tube… Continue reading Kaleidoscope
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (Fudge, #1) Author: Judy BlumePublished in 2007 with Puffin BooksPublisher is Puffin BooksAvailable in eBook, paperback (print length 120 pages), Mass Market paperback, Library Binding, & AudiobookTeaching Resources | Children’s Book on Siblings | Children’s Book on New Experiences Judy Blume has so many great books. Some of my… Continue reading Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing Book Review
Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life Author: Terry BrooksPublished in reprint edition in 2004Publisher is Del RayAvailable in eBook, paperback (print length 208 pages), Hardcover & AudiobookScience Fiction & Fantasy Writing | Science Fiction & Fantasy Literary History & Criticism | Science Fiction & Fantasy History & Criticism I loved reading The… Continue reading Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life Book Review
Brewing Coffee, Twisting Words & Breaking Pencils 