July Coffee Share

A Cup of Coffee and a Conversation

Photo by Pawel Czerwinski on Unsplash

Thank you for joining me for a coffee and a chat today.

If we were having coffee I would tell you…regular table and regular breakfast today! It is a great way to start the week. Chris and I will miss breakfast for the next two Sundays since we are camping next week.

If we were having coffee I would tell you….this week Chris and I went on a picnic. It has been an outing we have talked about forever but never seemed to plan. We went to our favorite coffee shop and ordered one of their delicious sandwiches. Then we took our basket I packed with some chilled wine and utilitarian things. Plus a Rumi book of poetry to read aloud. It was a glorious day. We took a walk down to the resale shop where we found some treasures.

If we were having coffee I would tell you….I tried to take my Explorer in for a recall notice I received in February but when I was checking in for my appointment I was told that the parts weren’t in yet. We had planned to go to breakfast afterwards anyway but we didn’t have to get up and out as early as we did. I wish they would have told me on the phone when I made the appointment! Oh well. He said I will get another letter when the parts are available. Who knows when that will be!

If we were having coffee I would tell you…..I am planning what to teach in the third quarter, so please weigh in!

If we were having coffee I would tell you…I am planning a virtual writer retreat in September! More details are coming soon. I am planning many exciting things!

If we were having coffee I would tell you…I finished the Glynnis MacNichol memoir and discovered she has an earlier memoir which is on hold at the library. She also has a Substack.

I am now reading The Cemetery of Untold Stories by Julia Alvarez.

I am using Julia Cameron’s book on guidance as my daily read and response text in my notebook. I finished THE PIVOT YEAR and had been looking for a similar format to use.

If we were having coffee I would tell you…social media has not been too much of a draw this week. I used my phone 3 hours less than last week too so that is promising data. Less distractions mean more writing and reading. I submitted this week as well. I feel a little more on track now.

If we were having coffee I would ask you… what are you reading?

Thank you for joining me for coffee today.

I would love to hear something from your week and a question you would like me to answer!

A little more about me: Tammy L. Evans is a writer, teacher, runner, and coach 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.