At the workshop last week, Deb Coates (charmingbillie) and I were talking about the differences between fantasy-refracted interior lives and more real-lifey real lives. I had no trouble describing my refracted life but found myself struggling for a concise way to describe my real life. Deb, however, pretty much nailed it: "You post pictures of coffee on the Internet."

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I'm not much of a souvenir collector -- pictures and memories are usually enough -- but I did take home one physical artifact (well, twelve, if you count individual bottles) from my recent trip to Arizona: 8th Street Ale, the excellent English-style bitter from Four Peaks Brewery in Tempe.

I already had the glass, but there's been no 8th Street to put in it for almost two years now.

Don't they look happy together?

(I was also pleased that Jon Hansen became a fan of Four Peaks Kilt Lifter, served at our favorite bar in Flagstaff. I was a Kilt Lifter die-hard until the night I downed at least five of them, plus a burger and beer-battered fries. All delicious, but heavy stuff, that Kilt Lifter.)

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