Coffee Rituals During COVID-19

Coffee has been a morning routine for most of us since sometime around early adulthood. Perhaps it was a way to survive your 8 a.m. classes in college after a night out with friends, or it was available in the break room of your first office job, or you had just made a habit out of stopping at the gas station on your way to work each day and it has stuck with you ever since. Within the past two months of living in COVID-19 times, my coffee routine has become more than just a monotonous practice I mindlessly move through each morning, but a ritual to start my day, socially distancing and all.