I DO not usually drink coffee. In fact, I am amazed at people who cannot go through the day without having a cup or two. If I were not aware of the physiologic effects of caffeine in the body, I would have thought that coffee had some mysterious qualities. Just imagine how being deprived of coffee affects some people. They suffer headaches and develop an incapacity to think, write, meet or concentrate, among other problems. …showed first 75 words of 901 total…

…showed last 75 words of 901 total…promdi or barriotic, I will always go for coffee served in the barrio, be it instant or brewed. Nothing can ever compare to a hot cup of coffee offered wholeheartedly and served with the warmth and sincerity by simple folks. I usually do not drink coffee. But I can drink gallons of it in the barrio. And for a community nurse like me who has made the barrio my second home, this is no mystery.