A few years back I was outside landscaping on a hill with some of the rocks on our property. I was enjoying the solitude of working in the cool afternoon air and building

Of all the beauty God created in nature, there are few elements on this planet that move me like rocks. I’m not talking about the pebble variety, though these little rocks can be beautiful or completely exasperating if wedged in your shoe.

I am not a coffee lover. I never acquired a taste for the bitter brew—despite the fact that my husband’s blood contains more caffeine than red cells. But with the emergence of the coffee shop culture a number of years back,