This piece of creative nonfiction is based on a journal entry I wrote in the early 1990s I sit alone in the coffee shop.  It is the kind of self-conscious coffee shop that sells Fair-Trade coffee in large white ceramic mugs and serves food on mismatched china.  The baristas are young, attractive, pierced and tattooed.  … Continue reading Still-life with Coffee

Photo Credit: Peter Szto, PhD After I started my blog I went back and looked at my old writing notebooks and journals. I stumbled across the bones of this encounter in a journal I was keeping while my first marriage was ending and I was in a bad place. For sake of argument, I'll call … Continue reading Still-life with Coffee