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Tea Journal herbalism

My favourite teas and tisanes for iced tea of summer 2020

By Gersande La Flèche on August 13, 2020

Here are two herbal teas and three teas that work especially well as iced teas that I've been sipping all summer long.

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Luna Personal Log

Farewell, Luna

By Gersande La Flèche on July 9, 2020

This week Leif and I lost our beloved Luna.

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Reading Log on Jamaica Kincaid’s Girl

By Gersande La Flèche on May 26, 2020

Whenever someone complains about how the second-person point of view just doesn’t work for them, I think they should give Jamaica Kincaid’s short story Girl a solid read.

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Reading Log on Cockroaches In Autumn by Lydia Davis

By Gersande La Flèche on May 21, 2020

There is one particular short story in The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis that I’ve adored since the very first time I read it, called Cockroaches in Autumn.

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