A Nice Cup of Coffee

I drink decaf instant coffee: decaf at my doctor’s insistence, and instant because I don’t have the time or the space to brew it.

We do have a Mr. Coffee-type of coffee maker, in that it takes in water and coffee grounds and spits out a hot beverage, but there the similarity ends. It is larger—taking up valuable real estate in a galley kitchen that has no available land to build on—more complicated (this may have changed in the two-plus decades of my absence, but I seem to recall that Mr. Cof...