Father's Day Sunday Coffee Share

A Cup of Coffee and a Conversation

My Darkest Side of the Moon coffee on the Art Institute Member Terrace!

If we were having coffee, I would tell you…it’s BREAKFAST DAY and Father’s Day! We are celebrating Chris today with roast chicken, potatoes, and chocolate cake with chocolate icing.

Since my brother in law is still here, he joined us for breakfast so that was lovely. I am taking him back to the airport here shortly and then this afternoon I have two meetings I am running. One is a final meeting for the class I have been teaching.

If we were having coffee, I would tell you…my birthday is tomorrow and I have been thinking about Tammy Version 5.1.

This Substack was helpful for thinking about concrete questions to consider for my “upgrade”

The Summer Glow Up

I also have a lot of insights from my week alone and the reflections that came with it.

Chris and I have plans to spend the day on a date! I want to go to Chesterton to our little coffee shop and have a picnic in the park and then go to the winery that is there.

If we were having coffee, I would tell you…I did not attend my IRL writing group because we had to attend a family funeral yesterday. My brother-in-law came back into town on Friday night which was a whole string of chaos that will end up in a story somehow. The funeral was as good as it could be. It was nice to be with family and to share stories. It was nice for me to put faces to the stories I have held for a while. The homily during the mass was uplifting and actually made me feel better. I love a priest who tells a personal story and then connects it to his message. The luncheon was lovely and then we went back to the house for more visiting. We didn’t return home until almost 7pm.

If we were having coffee, I would tell you…I hosted an event with an author on Wednesday about weaving the art of science within your writing. It was spectacular and she provided a structure for approaching an essay that is a mix of personal, curiosity and science.

If we were having coffee, I would tell you…I am reading” The Dry Season” by Melissa Febos and adore this book. I am putting it in a book flight with “I’m Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself “and am searching for the third to make it a trio!

I am also reading THERE THERE for book club by Tommy Orange. This book has been on my TBR forever. I am not loving it, but am trying to appreciate what he is doing with this text.

I am also making a list of books to take for my solo retreat in Canada at the end of the month. There are several texts I want to have with me in physical form because I will be working on the manuscript of my longer project.

Here are photos from this week:

I wish you a good week!!

A little more about me: Tammy L. Evans is a writer, teacher, and runner living in a tiny house on a peninsula with her husband and adventure cat. Her location device is her loud laugh. She is a reader for Reckon Review. She is the creator and host of the THE BRADBURY TRIO COURSE. Her poetry has been published in The Storyteller, FoxGlove Journal, Story Hall, Blue Insights, The Partnered Pen, and others. Her fiction has been published in Gone Lawn, South Florida Poetry Journal, Cabinets of Heed, Spelk, Five on the Fifth, Clover and White, Fiction Berlin Kitchen, and others.