An old-fashioned bouquet of camellias your grandmother’s tea service have more in common than the sideboard on which they’re standing. The camellia bush with its shiny green leaves and corsage blossoms is Camellia japonica; the evergreen tea plant, Camellia sinensis....
I wake up to tea. Every morning, I wake up to tea. I do not even have to make the tea. My beloved husband lets me sleep for a few extra blessed minutes while he makes the tea. And toast. He always makes toast, too. Unless, of course, we’re out of bread (which...
K.C. IRETON
K.C. Ireton is a writer and teacher. The author of The Circle of Seasons: Meeting God in the Church Year and Cracking Up: A Postpartum Faith Crisis, she lives near Seattle with her husband and four school-aged children. She is a lover of books, gardens, and tea. Also, Oxford commas.