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So, wanna do other things with your coffee besides drink it?  Me neither.  But here are some theoretical uses for your coffee, from Yahoo Shine: Reduce cellulite Pricey cellulite creams almost always have one major ingredient in common: caffeine, which supposedly enhances fat metabolism, reducing the appearance of these fatty pockets…

Say you’re reading a new non-fiction book. Say you’ve met the author. Say the topic is a special subject of yours. Not that you, like, obsess over it. Much. Not enough to make your relatives worried. You’ve just read every single piece of primary source material that you can find….

I’ve got a book idea that could be written as straight true crime historical non-fiction or mystery/romance historical fiction. Between those two genres, which would you be more likely to read:  history (non-fiction) or historical fiction?

Welcome to Skyrim. This place probably needs no introduction amongst my readers, right? We’re all bleary-eyed from having stayed up too late playing the latest in the Elder Scrolls franchise. My fella asked if I was riding a draft horse and I proceeded to tell him about how Skyrim horses…

Look! It’s a piece of coffee history, one of my favorite kinds of history. And the honor of possessing the first coffee & chocolate license in Massachusetts – possibly in the colonies – goes to a woman:  Dorothy Jones in 1670. Yay for enterprising colonial women who know the value…

While I disagree with Seattle being the best coffee city solely because Starbucks started there, the rest of this graphic is pretty cool.