I start my mornings with a nice cup or two of Kind Tea. What is Kind Tea? Kind Tea is herbal tea that is good for the body, mind, and soul. Kind Tea has no caffeine, and is a mix of fresh botanical, vegetable and fruit ingredients. Since drinking my own Kind Tea recipes, I have felt immensely better in almost all ways. My tea recipes have no added sugar. Below are some recipes that I have created to help you create your own cup of Kind Tea in the mornings! Savory Morning Kind

Insulant heat. Bees by the shore. Humming of insects. The rain comes no more. I went to the Rain Tree, about an hour and a half from Chiang Mai, Thailand. I rode my motorcycle through national forests, up mountains, down mountains, through villages. Dry season in Northern Thailand means water will be low, and burning season in means I will be riding through burning forest fires. A dirt road that leads to the lake where the rain tree I found stands. I found the Rain Tree on a

Barren and alive. I sit on a sandy death hill. The mountain tree side. Unreachable. Perhaps only by swimming. I'm so close. I hear the birds. Sometimes fish jump. Dead sticks, shells, and rocks. I sweat. I hear voices in the air. Doi Tao Lake, Thailand. Photo by N.Popowich. 2026

Coming to Thailand, I imagined I would be eating Pad Thai and Green Curry almost everyday. To some extent that is true, yet Thailand cuisine offers so much more, from classic Thai dishes I have never heard of, to re-imagined classic dishes. I had a hunch, fish was on the menu, but I was not ready for how affordable, well-prepared, and diverse the seafood cuisine was in Thailand. Baby yellow octopus ready to eat at a Thailand Night Market. Photo by N. Popowich. I travelled in

This is one of the neat butterflies I found fluttering around in the forest.