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Contributed by: Brendan Leonard/YourHub.com on 10/23/2006

Thesis: My mother is a certified nurse practitioner with more than 30 years experience in the health care industry.

Antithesis: My mother drinks about eight cups of coffee every morning.

Synthesis: Coffee must be good for you.

We all love our coffee, don't we? Oh, you don't drink coffee? Well, in that case, you probably don't want to read this blog, because it's about coffee, and contains links to four other stories or blogs also about coffee.

As my boss, Travis Henry, once said to me, "One of the great things about YourHub.com is that it provides a place for folks like you and me to share their true feelings about coffee and not feel ashamed about it."*

He's right. Check out some of the pieces we've written over the past few weeks extolling the many benefits of drinking coffee, from curing wives' headaches to fertilizing gardens to generally making most of us not want to kill people before we get to work in the morning.

If you're in the mood for a dark story, check out Jared Keller's latest piece, about the Sunday his household ran out of the "blessed nectar of the bean."

This one's a few months old, but Rob Guthrie's essay (trust me, it's a cut above a mere blog entry), "I, Barista" will hip you to the art of making your own espresso at home. And there's some innuendo in there, so there's that, too.

Katherine Jerome, of Lakewood, recently reviewed the many benefits of coffee, and cited a Harvard study that recommended three to eight (yes!) cups of coffee a day for those wanting to reap the health benefits.

Anthonette Klinkerman, of Castle Rock, tries to answer the question "What is it about Starbucks?" typing a story she wrote, rather fittingly, while sitting in a Starbucks.

And here's my very own poem about coffee, which I kind of wrote in my head on the way back from my Monday afternoon coffee run to Diedrich's:

Ode to Coffee
by Brendan Leonard

Coffee, man, you got me brewing you in a French press every morning, man.
I hate it when I'm late for work because I have to drink you as fast as I can.

I used to dilute you with artificial sweetener because I didn't know any better.
But I've learned my lesson -- that anything outside of half and half doesn't matter.

C-O-F-F-E-E.
You are an expensive addiction, but way cheaper than crack, which is all right by me.

By the way, I don't smoke crack.

*Travis actually never said this.
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