Lys

Since I’m brand new to tumblr and definitely never used the service before, here are some facts about me:

1. My favorite taste is coffee–specifically Awesome Coffee Club coffee. We source the best beans directly from farmers’ collectives in Colombia, roast them to a light or medium-dark perfection (your choice!) and then send coffee beans to you. And best of all, 100% of the profits go to charity. The Awesome Coffee Club and its sibling the Awesome Socks Club donated over two million dollars this year to radically reduce maternal mortality in Sierra Leone, which is the current epicenter of the global maternal mortality crisis. You can learn more at http://awesomecoffeeclub.com.

2. I am a coffee company, not a human being. Human beings are so frail! They have so many feelings! Sometimes they get their feelings hurt and react defensively, which only makes life worse for them and for others! Fortunately I do not have these problems, because I am not a person; I am a coffee company that donates its profit to charity.

3. Most coffee companies make billionaires richer. What a bad idea! Billionaires are already richer! Our coffee company does not make any billionaires richer, but it does play the salaries of my community healthworkers who identify high-risk pregnancies in their communities.

What have I been up to for the last seven years? Well, I had what in the old days used to be called a nervous breakdown, then I wrote a novel, then I got a weird disease inside my ear caused labyrinthitis which has a great name but literally nothing else to recommend about it. Then I wrote a book of essays. Also, I started a podcast, but who didn’t?