When I was much younger, I used to love seeing the stories I wrote come to life. This usually entailed using my collection of My Little Ponies to act out the story, each of them representing a certain character therein. Sometime during my teenage years, I obtained an obscure PC game that let the user …
Tag: writing
Mar 18
Coffee Shop Chronicles: Making friends in coffee shops, Part 1
The Fine Grind, a coffee bar Little Falls, NJ March 2017 It’s my second week in New Jersey, and I see a woman in a yellow University of Michigan sweatshirt. Really? I live in some vortex that I can’t escape my former home state. Are there more of them? I scan the room. The big …
Mar 16
Real Writers Live to be Inspired
Writers’ lives are full of pressure. We set goals for ourselves and inch our way toward deadlines. We study our craft, attend conferences, pitch ideas to agents, and network with all sorts of people on social media. We constantly long to write but never have as much time as we would like. Raising the stakes …
Feb 18
Coffee shop Chronicles: An awkward coffee conversation
January 2017 Starbucks Livonia, MI My fingertips touch the grande cup of coffee when I think to ask, “This isn’t yours, is it?” “Oh no,” the guy next to me says. “I watched her make mine because I got hazelnut in it. I’m trying something new.” I didn’t really think it was mine; I was …
Jan 18
Coffee Shop Chronicles: On staying and leaving,
Starbucks Cherry Hill, NJ October 2002 I’m shaking from hitting the curb as I pulled in. I don’t see any damage, but I’m uncontrollably jittery. It’s a good thing I brought my journal tonight. My mocha Frappuccino will just add caffeine to my jitters, but the journal, well, that’s relaxing. I hope. It’s an older …