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The First Bag of Coffee Beans That Made Me Curious About Roasting

I was wandering around a new neighborhood on a quiet Sunday morning. I walked past a small cafe and decided […]

My smartphone illuminated my dark bedroom at exactly six in the morning. I picked it up to turn off the

For the better part of my adult life, I was deeply committed to a very specific, highly utilitarian piece of

It was the middle of August, and my city was trapped inside a brutal, suffocating heatwave. The temperature gauge on

I spilled them all over the counter. It was a completely clumsy accident involving two half-empty bags of coffee, a

I was reviewing a new website layout for a client on a hot Tuesday afternoon in Rio de Janeiro. The

I was aggressively cleaning my kitchen on a quiet Sunday morning in Rio de Janeiro. I needed a physical task

The morning air in Rio de Janeiro was already thick and humid. I was sitting at my kitchen table trying

I had a completely free Saturday afternoon. The house was quiet. I walked into my kitchen and looked at a

The yellow lines on the highway were starting to blur together into one continuous, hypnotic streak. It was 1:30 AM