I tried an East Timor roast last summer and really enjoyed this coffee. Honestly, as a roaster  it is hard for me to prioritize my dozen – some origins – This one is an organic and Fair Trade coffee from Ermera , a district in East Timor, half of one of the easternmost coffee growing islands in Indonesia.
Ermera is an area of Timor-Leste (formerly called East Timor) with a long tradition of coffee growing and was the location of the main coffee plantation when Timor was occupied …

On Thursday April 29, 2010, 7:00 pm – Author of acclaimed best sellers, The Glass Castle and Half Broke Horses,  Jeanette Walls will be signing and discussing her books at a special event sponsored by Germanna Community College,  benefiting The Culpeper Literacy Council.
Walls, is a local writer and journalist widely known as former gossip columnist for MSNBC.com. Her book,  The Glass Castle,  a memoir of her family’s repeated relocations during her childhood, published in 2005 sold over 1.5 million copies by the end of 2007.  It had been translated into …

It’s here…maybe this storm will crack the top ten worst storms to hit the area!!  Preparing for the storm…well…some of these you can still do..some you may already have done.. I have not done half of these….. but I’m up late and read up on some of this and thought I’d share.
So……I started today with filling my tank since I was heading to Warrenton to swim ,  anticipating 3 days off from swimming :(…and probably running…and biking…..some of these are common sense , really.
1. Hope you filled your cars with …