An open mind is a blessing. Keeping it open can be difficult when time and understanding is limited. Living requires contemplation, strength, love and humor. To live is universal, to thrive in your element, extraordinary. Hot-Sauce Flavored Coffee is a compilation of essays, commentary and written word, detailing love and life from the perspective of intellectualism through some of the most difficult times we go through as individual people, and sometimes the most difficult person to understand; ourselves. Hot Sauce-Flavored Coffee takes you through the life of a 30 year-old Portland, Oregon native, and illustrates the rise and fall and cyclical momentum of her trials and tribulations over a 3 year period. As she continues to seek her higher self and lifelong aspirations of becoming an artist, mother, lover, activist and friend. *This book is intended fo mature audiences and contains material which may be potentially objectionable to some readers.*