: About Me

I'm a working mom in Connecticut, and started writing for Helium to write about my great love - knitting. Since joining, however, I've found that Helium is a great outlet for writing about all topics.

My passion is ...

knitting, and spending time with my husband and son (preferably at the same time)

I know too much about ...

Cooking Light magazine and yarn

My parents always told me ...

trust, but verify.

My childhood ambition ...

to be a cellist

My favorite memory ...

Sawyer's birth

Why I write ...

because I like to

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Reading: knitting magazines. Watching: CSPAN. Listening to: Sufjan Stevens and Tindersticks

My first job ...

at a store

My best moment ...

Not sure yet

My inspiration ...

Sawyer

Food & Drink > Tea Ten health benefits of black tea

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Tea has long been enjoyed as a beverage that has many health benefits. Most of the benefits that are talked about are in regard to green teas, but that is overlooking the black tea varieties, and the benefits they can add to a healthy diet. Black and green teas are actually made from the same plant, the Camellia Sinensis. They both are harvested from the leaves of this plant, but the difference is in the processing, which changes the benefits to each end result. Green teas are minimally processed with a procedure called "oxidizing", and black teas are more aggressively oxidized before each...

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