I am Sarah Jane Case and this is Enneagram and coffee.

Hello friends, happy Monday. I hope your weekend treated you well. Today is another

author's corner check-in where I update you on what the heck is going on behind the scenes.

So grab yourself a cup of coffee or tea

and let's catch up. Starting with today's rose bud and thorn. My rose today is that I love the coffee

that we make at home. I am so excited. We've just gotten back from Portland. This is my first morning back.

And I was just so excited to come back home to coffee. We have our little brevlo espresso machine that is small but mighty.

And we buy really good coffee beans and really good milk and just make ourselves the cappuccinos of our

dreams almost every single day. And that brings me into our thorn, which is that we were in Portland

looking for the perfect cappuccino for days and never found it, which is shocking because the last time that I was in Portland,

it felt like everywhere I went, I got a perfect cappuccino. And I don't know if I have changed

or if Portland has changed or if the circumstances of the world have changed such that

we're just not, you know, getting the coffee that we want. But I was

disappointed. And I went to a lot of the places that I loved before and didn't have good coffee.

It was really a real bummer. You don't need to send me Portland coffee recommendations. I guarantee

you I have tried them. I would be shocked if I had it.

I'm sure that there's a coffee shop in like a little neighborhood somewhere that has an incredible coffee that I have not tried.

But in general, like a lot of the main places that we were looking at, we got kind of bad coffee, which was sad.

But I am glad that we have a really good coffee to come home to.

Thrilled about that.

I honestly thought we were going to come back spoiled and we didn't.

So, you know, I think that's positive.

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