For over twenty years, I’ve kept a standing appointment with the sunrise. When the Texas Gulf Coast weather is kind enough to offer a breeze, you’ll find me on the back porch with a steaming mug and a quiet mind.
CoffeeMuses is the result of those two decades of morning rituals. It is a collection of reflections on family, the daily rhythms of life in Alvin, and the simple beauty found in the world right outside my door. This is where the “mountain dream” finds its home in the coastal sun—one cup and one story at a time.
Our Latest Muses
The New Secret Engine of Texas Politics:
A Morning Text Message and the Quiet Evolution of Politics
This morning, standard phone-buzz routine: a text message hit my screen with a link attached. Glancing at the preview link, my immediate knee-jerk reaction was to write it off as just another piece of political…
Looking at a Weather Map and seeing The Geometry of a Lifetime
Looking at the radar map on my screen this afternoon, watching the familiar colorful bands of a summer thunderstorm drift across the upper Texas coast, it brought back to me with a sudden, quiet clarity…
Coffee… Health Benefits?
I was looking at my Ground News headlines today and this one caught my eye “Coffee helps protect your body from aging and disease, study says”. So naturally, being me, I pasted the headline into…
