Stories of Swift Coffee Sourcing
La Mamá Se Muerte
Adonirá Mestanza Rodríguez. She passed this week and already slips through our fingers into memory. Arms like bird’s wings, and hair like smoke. I celebrate the moment of how we...
La Mamá Se Muerte
Adonirá Mestanza Rodríguez. She passed this week and already slips through our fingers into memory. Arms like bird’s wings, and hair like smoke. I celebrate the moment of how we...
Mid-Career: The Long Arc
There comes a point in a career when you stop measuring progress by the next milestone and start noticing something else. A throughline. For years, I thought I was constantly...
Mid-Career: The Long Arc
There comes a point in a career when you stop measuring progress by the next milestone and start noticing something else. A throughline. For years, I thought I was constantly...
What 7 Years of Collaboration Means in Yirgacheffe
What 7 Years of Collaboration Means in Yirgacheffe Hirut Berhanu is tall and fine-featured, with a proud stance and a ready laugh. Her sister Mahder is softer in appearance, always...
What 7 Years of Collaboration Means in Yirgacheffe
What 7 Years of Collaboration Means in Yirgacheffe Hirut Berhanu is tall and fine-featured, with a proud stance and a ready laugh. Her sister Mahder is softer in appearance, always...
The Industry Wants Certainty. The Work Needs Co...
I understand the appeal of certainty. I’ve wanted it my entire life—from growing up in a fundamentalist farming community, to searching for safety in the “best practices” of specialty coffee....
The Industry Wants Certainty. The Work Needs Co...
I understand the appeal of certainty. I’ve wanted it my entire life—from growing up in a fundamentalist farming community, to searching for safety in the “best practices” of specialty coffee....
The 20 Mile March Toward Success
“Head empty, no thoughts.” I learned this wonderful phrase from my teenager, who uses it to describe their classmates, most cats, politicians, other vehicle drivers on the way to school…...
The 20 Mile March Toward Success
“Head empty, no thoughts.” I learned this wonderful phrase from my teenager, who uses it to describe their classmates, most cats, politicians, other vehicle drivers on the way to school…...
Giggles and Pollo a la Brasa
July 29, 2025. Jaén, Peru. I’m thinking about family. The kind you’re born with, and the kind you make. Last night, I sat at a table full of family. The...
Giggles and Pollo a la Brasa
July 29, 2025. Jaén, Peru. I’m thinking about family. The kind you’re born with, and the kind you make. Last night, I sat at a table full of family. The...