serenity tea house.

"steep yourself in serenity"

that's what the sign outside the serenity tea house says...

anyways--in leaving ohio this weekend, i'm trying to do the things i really enjoy about being home, and one of those things is enjoying a lunch by myself at the serenity tea house on main street. they serve the most amazing chicken salad in the whole world, and i can purchase tea by the pot. everytime my friends come to visit me, i take them to the tea house...and it's impossible to not love it. that's right. i'm making an absolutist statement. it is impossible for anyone to not love the serenity tea house.

the lady who owns it (Jeanne) was my brother's preschool teacher. she always says hi to me when i come into eat, and she never asks me to leave (even when i stay there and read for two hours.) There is not "Jumping Bean" or "Starbucks" in coshocton, but there is a serenity tea house. everytime i eat lunch there, i run into someone i know from a past life--because that's what happens when you eat lunch in a small town...

when i leave on sunday, i will say a prayer for the tea house...because i will miss it!