Most coffee table books sit on the coffee table, but with the Snow book, people sit down and look at it. They start to giggle and laugh because it was the year that everybody go the same gift for Christmas.

The thing that's so amazing is to see things that are so unnatural in snow. We've all seen snow, somewhat, but to see it around a sailboat, or on the beach ... It's just so unnatural, yet so pristine. It's Texas like you've never seen.

It's been successful enough that I've dared to do it again. I didn't know if people would continue to want it, but they are.

. . . word-sniffing . . . is an addiction, like glue -- or snow -- sniffing in a somewhat less destructive way, physically if not economically. . . . As an addict, I am almost guiltily interested in converts to my own illness . . .

Most people probably don't even know about the antioxidants, ... People are going to drink coffee no matter what. We sold over $17,000 worth of Starbucks products last week.

The big guys, like Starbucks, paved the way for specialty coffee. Now people are looking to learn more and (want) a wider variety of specialty beans, both single-origins and blends. Five years ago, people would come into the store and ask for something strong or something mild. Now they want Guatemalan Antigua or Brazilian Bourbon.