Like the ouroboros, I am turning in on myself and drinking a lot of my own cakes of late.  This seems almost indecent, after a recent lifeti...

Gentle Reader, before we get down to our mutual camellia sinensis addiction, it would probably be helpful to give you the background to how...

...the figurative Tea-Womb of Mr. Essence, that is. Let us indulge in a little exercise in tea obstetrics.  Let us part the tea-labia of...

Greetings, Heroes. How's 2017 treating all y'all? Trump (hnng), Brexit (hnnnrghn), Theresa May (hhrrrnnnngghh) - everything is p...

I have of late, but wherefore I know not... lost all my mirth.  Foregone all custom of exercise. And, indeed, it goes so heavily with my d...

Today's agenda: got the shengpu up in the Sentra. Go to room 1-12,  tell 'em Miss Lin sent ya. Please make yo...

Nothing helps a situation like a serious cup of tea. Looming deadlines? Cup of tea. Student trying to convince you to let them submit a...

Warriors, poets, and warrior-poets: I bid you welcome.  I trust that all is well, with you and yours.  These are strange days indeed, but f...

We have known one another for so long, Gentle Reader, that I feel as if I can confide in you.  Among the veritable plethora of "things...

The Peacock of Bulang went well, last week, and thus emboldened, I dug through some of my old samples to find a bit more Dayi: the 8582-805...

Peacocks.  Sure, they look pretty - until they open their mouths.  GRAAAARKKK!  They sound like the eternal damned. There is a very pretty...

Gentle Reader, I hope that you are easing pleasantly into the summer, in whichever way you ease best.  The end of the academic year  here f...