Good morning! It’s 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, March 25, 2026. It’s sunny and cool outside, and it’s coffee time. —– It’s been three months since I’ve written a Coffee Time entry. I don’t know why, but it’s been a wild and crazy winter—I’ll blame it on that. But I digress. I got to thinking the…
Good evening! It’s 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, December 31, 2025. It’s clear and cold, it’s New Year’s Eve, and it’s coffee time. We often think of fashion as purely aesthetic, but history tells us it can be a powerful psychological tool. The Mode à la victime (“Victim’s Fashion”) and the iconic red ribbon didn’t appear…
Coffee Time Blog 13: The Vacuum of 1971 – Desegregation in Columbus, Georgia Good morning! It’s 10:00 a.m. on Sunday, December 21, 2025. It’s sunny and cool outside, and it’s coffee time.—– I recently encountered a thought-provoking Facebook post about the racial landscape of sociology. It highlighted how personal social and cultural environments can limit…
Good morning! It’s 9:00 a.m. on Thursday, November 27, 2025. It’s clear and cold, it’s Thanksgiving 2025, and it’s coffee time.—– It’s Thanksgiving, and I hope you are all having a great one. Some of you get along with your families; some of you don’t. Some of you will nap in somebody else’s chair this…
Good morning! It’s 7:00 a.m. on Monday, November 10, 2025. It’s wet and cool outside, and it’s coffee time.—– Howdy y’all. This past weekend, I went shopping at Home Depot, intending just to pick up some containers I’d bought online for storage. Surprisingly, they had the same heavy-duty small containers as the discount stores, for…
Good morning! It’s 7:00 a.m. on Thursday, October 30th, 2025. It’s wet and slightly warm outside and it’s coffee time. ————————————– It seems I’ve been quite nostalgic lately. This morning around 6:30 AM, when I was walking Sascha on her short trip for a pee, I noticed a school bus picking up children in my…
Good morning! It’s 7:00 a.m. on Tuesday, October 28th, 2025. It’s windy and rainy outside and it’s coffee time. I may have touched on this before, but still…let the indefinite pronouns begin! I can’t recall which HBO special it was from, but two things comedian George Carlin said have stuck with me from his stand-up…
Good morning! It’s 7:00 a.m. on Monday, October 20th, 2025, and it’s coffee time. I have a saying I came up with: “To all things, there is a rhythm.” When I think of rhythm, I go all the way back to primitive man – the sound of drums, the sound of patterns. In my personal…
Good morning! It’s 7:00 a.m. on October 19th, 2025 It’s a beautiful Sunday morning here in coastal Virginia, and this is a special edition of Coffee Time! Sundays are my “reset” day, and that’s what this is all about. Normally, I wouldn’t do anything on Sundays (well, I have to do things, of course), but…
Good morning! It’s 7:00 AM on a wonderfully brisk Saturday, October 18th, 2025. Let’s grab some coffee. Growing up in the ’60s and ’70s, when I think about phobias that aren’t my own, my mind often goes to Lucy van Pelt from Peanuts. In several shows and in the comic strip, she’d set up a…