Moving Day!

Thanks to everyone who has taken a gander at my coffee musings thus far. However, it is time to leave blogger and move on to my very own site! From this point forward I'll be writing about coffee culture and related topics at the shiny new site www.coffeeculturerva.com so come on over and check it out! For the time being, the archived entries will remain here but I'll soon bring those over too.

Barista, The Modern Bohemian

Lets call this a little bit of a teaser for a project I'll be working on for the next few months. I was a barista for many years and now I am fortunate enough to spend most of my days working with baristas and coffee industry professionals. Lately I've been thinking a lot about community and culture and I realized that there are a few communities out there that are almost completely filled with truly amazing people. The coffee community is a shining example in my humble opinion.

We are a vastly diverse collection of vagabonds united by an underlying sense of passion. We're almost all passionate about coffee but then many are artists, musicians, performers; many of us write or cook. We come from all racial backgrounds and sexual orientations, male, female; some are tattooed, some love pets. Still it all comes back to passion; we are the modern bohemian culture and for this we should be recognized and we should be proud.

I'm going to be researching and featuring the diversity of our community by taking a look at some of the most talented and fascinating baristas in town so that everyone knows, when they get their perfectly constructed latte, that the person crafting that drink is a professional and a unique and integral part of our budding coffee culture.

By the way... recognize that barista?

The Turtle Wins the Race

This is not really a post about coffee, specifically, but it certainly relates to my ability to write about coffee in the future. As a certain lovely lady often points out, I am often rather oblivious to the world around me; this is especially true when it comes to technology. I know that there is a way to do just about anything with respect to the web and computers but I'm just not savvy in this regard so I'm often left surprised by things most folks take for granted.

Today I realized I could post pictures and text easily from my mobile directly to this blog. Big deal? Probably not, but when I'm out and about enjoying the awesome coffees of Richmond and beyond I can more easily share the experience.

The past two posts have been mobile posts to see how the whole thing works. So far? I'm a fan.

This isn't necessarily coffee related but its a lovely table I shared with a lovely lady last night. We enjoyed market vegetable pad Thai and tuber slaw with a lovely malbec.

Simple joy brought to me by the folks at Lamplighter Roasting