DIVERSIONS
Zelie Beans Coffee The Owners: Victoria (Sequeira) Mastrangelo, BA ’10, and her husband, Joseph Mastrangelo, named their small-batch coffee roastery in Sugar Land, Texas, for St. Zelie Martin. The company’s motto is “Families helping families through specialty coffee.” The Mastrangelos also had a booth at the Alumni Business Fair during the most recent Alumni and Family Weekend. In a Nutshell: According to their website, “People are at the heart of everything we do.” Zelie Beans Coffee only sources beans from suppliers that provide fair and above-fair prices for the unroasted beans, also seeking sources that invest in women, their families and their communities.
Small Things Print Co. The Makers: Interdisciplinary studies major Clare (Elfelt) Rogers, BA ’14, and her sister Mary Kate Elfelt, BA ’18, a ceramics major, went into business together in January 2020. Clare conceived the idea for their company at a coffee shop after a hard day of teaching in fall 2019. In a Nutshell: The company’s motto is “small things to encourage great love.” Mary Kate wrote, “I want this company to be able to provide people with comfort and inspiration in tough times — even if it’s something as small as rereading one of our prayers or sharing joy by gifting our stickers and other products.” Start Gifting: Visit their shop at smallthingsprintco.com and etsy. com/shop/SmallThingsPrintCo.
Seasons: My Journey Through Grief The Author: Retired English, speech and theater teacher (and mother of four grown sons) Ernestine Rose, MA ’00, lost her husband of 41 years, Art, to sarcoidosis. This book evolved out of the 800-page journal she kept from the onset of his illness through her subsequent grief. In a Nutshell: “Mourning has its own season, and if I’ve learned nothing else … it’s that you have to face your loss head on, and you have to do it at your own pace … you have to follow your own seasons,” wrote Ernestine. “For some, this may take a year, for others, longer. But we all have to endure and survive through our seasons after loss in order to live fully again.” Start Reading: Buy the book at udallas.edu/ journey-through-grief. It is available in e-book, paperback or hardcover.
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PHOTOS: COURTESY OF SMALL PRINT CO., COURTESY OF ZELIE BEANS COFFEE, COURTESY OF ERNESTINE ROSE, VASILE AND ALINA CHIRIAC.
Start Sipping: Visit zeliebeanscoffee.com.
