I love coffee.
I became a regular coffee drinker in college. My friend Diane and I would go to HoJo’s for late night breakfasts and bottomless cups of coffee. Because I drank it faster than the waitress could replenish the cream, I soon became a black coffee drinker. This worked well for us because then Di could have all of the creamers and I could have more of the straight coffee.
Life was good.
After I graduated from college (and from HoJo’s), I managed a restaurant for years so I had access to unlimited bottomless pots of black coffee, of which I took full advantage. I could make a fresh pot any time I wanted it and then just drink the first cup or two before the remainder was sold to customers, and then I could start another fresh pot. Repeat process.
Fast forward thirty (gasp!) years. I am still a black coffee drinker. I spent many of those years as a slave to Dunkin Donuts Medium Black French Vanilla. Too many. Currently my loyalties have shifted. I can enjoy a cup of whatever the local coffee shop is serving up, but I recently realized that I am now a slave to the Keurig. I can go through a half a dozen K-cups in a single day.
Today I tried an experiment: I started the day with a cup of Tulsi Tea instead of the coffee that I am usually sipping no later than 6am, often as early as 5:30am. To my surprise, the caffeine headache didn’t surface until 11:00am, so I had my first cup (Spicy Eggnog!) of coffee of the day then. I held out until 6pm before I had a second cup.
The great thing about Tulsi Tea is that it comes in many flavors, just like my beloved coffee. Maybe I’m on to something?
To be continued…
Karen Creamer Author, Coach, Speaker 
I like those stores too! I like both tea and coffee but since I stopped my wake-up cup of coffee (this is day 2!) I ‘ve realized this: I have an emotional attachment to coffee that just isn’t there with tea. I like tea, but really, the bottom line is that I LOVE coffee!
I drink tea more so because I’m a Type 1 Diabetic and it’s easier to track the carbs in the drink (less milk, less sugar = barely any carbs. Win!). But since I started writing, like, a tonneee, I’ve relied on tea because I don’t want to harm my body (they say tea has less caffeine and that is good enough research for me). I only drink quality products now. I like tea and coffee stores. I buy quality ground coffee beans (no instant!!!!) and dry tea leaves for my tea pot. Mm …