The Importance of Being Earnest is English playwright Oscar Wilde’s theatrical magnum opus, first premiering in 1895. A farce, it follows two protagonists, Jack and Algernon, who maintain apocryphal personas to shirk social obligations. The protagonists’ artifice is laid bare at the climax of the play when they simultaneously introduce themselves as “Ernest” before their …

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Tea, as with anything worth its salt, features a motley reservoir of distinct tastes. A slew of variables may influence the taste of tea including, but not limited to, sort of leaves used, washing, fermentation, and whether one incorporates tea first or milk first. With these and other techniques of preparing tea in mind, I …

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My first visit to Muhlenberg’s community garden was an acutely dull occasion. I disbursed the hour ridding the garden of weeds in unwavering silence alongside two other volunteers who were equally as mute. At my duty’s finality, I reflected upon my toils in the garden and gleaned a seemly valuable lesson regarding the dynamic between …

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Tea aficionados rejoice! Today I will entertain a hypothetical dialogue between renowned (I use this word particularly) tea experts Endymion Wilkinson- English diplomat and Sinologist, James Benn- professor of Buddhism and East Asian Studies at McMaster University, and Solala Towler- editor/publisher of The Empty Vessel: The Journal of Taoist Philosophy and Practice. Each of these …

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