a good reason never, ever to move house

The independently owned coffee roaster and espresso bar that's a block from my house and is open 24 hours a day (!) now uses only organically grown fair trade coffee.

Life is very, very good.

I do roast my own coffee, partly because it's fun and partly because it costs less than half as much as pre-roasted (and I drink a LOT of coffee). I use an air popcorn popper that I bought for $7.88 from Target and triple-certified (organic, shade grown, fair trade) coffee beans that I mail ordered from Seven Bridges Cooperative (who also do organic home brewing supplies for beer -- something I'd like to try one of these days). I don't always have time (it takes a little over an hour to roast a pound of coffee) or energy to do my own, though, so it's really, really nice to have a place that's an easy stroll from my front door (and open 24 hours!) that does organic fair trade.