Long Weekend Sunday Coffee Share

A Cup of Coffee and a Conversation

Iceland - I miss this coffee so much.

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

If we were having coffee I would tell you…it is a holiday weekend here in the States. My Canadian friends had a long weekend last weekend!

Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial start of summer. Here in Indiana, the weather has been warm, we’ve had some storms (usually when Chris wants to cut the grass!) and cool nights. I have been able to walk, write, revise, and read. It is a good life.

Today on the way back from breakfast there was lightning across the sky and thunder booming.

Our regular waitress saved our regular Sunday table today so it was ready when we walked in. We got a bit of a late start today. We all watched Dune 2 last night. I enjoyed it. Chris and I had the added bonus of Mykl telling us the context of what was happening because he has read the books multiple times.

If we were having coffee I would tell you…last Sunday I took a Tinhouse Workshop. I was able to be a student! These online workshops are three hours and easy on the wallet. I attended K-Ming Chang’s workshop.

The other workshop I took last weekend was with Melissa Llanes Brownlee through the Crow Collective. This is another great option for reasonably priced workshops. The class was about plural POV’s and it was fun to play with this craft element. It allowed me to enter several stories in a different way which was fruitful.

If we were having coffee I would tell you…I am obsessed with a new poem! Through the K-ming workshop, I learned about Natalie Diaz’s work. K-ming shared a poem called I Watch Her Eat the Apple. I keep revisiting it.

In a SmokeLong workshop about Hybrid writing yesterday I was in a breakroom conversation about memorizing poetry. This is not a task I was assigned in school. Was this something assigned to you?

We were laughing about being the people who randomly break out into reciting poetic lines as if there were normal conversations within groups of friends! I felt like the challenge was thrown down by one of the other writers to memorize a poem so I am working on a Mary Oliver poem (it’s short). I have tried a couple of times to memorize a poem and have not accomplished it yet. Maybe this is the time.

If we were having coffee I would tell you… I am making potato salad today for the holiday tomorrow. I had to wait for a cooler day so I didn’t heat up with house my boiling potatoes and hard boiled eggs! Steak and chicken is marinating for kabobs later.

If we were having coffee I would tell you…I received a big rejection yesterday. It is disappointing, but part of the writing game. On to the next thing!

If we were having coffee I would tell you… I did a 46-hour fast this week.

If we were having coffee I would tell you… I want to try a new recipe this week. Mexican Street Corn. I have a recipe from a good friend in Missouri but it is similar to this one. I also want to learn how to make those sugar string sculptures they put on desserts at fancy restaurants.

Chris is making me screens to make my own paper too. I have some new interests that are emerging that are just FUN. I planned a date for Chris and I later this week. It is something we have wanted to do for a long time. More on that event next weekend.

If we were having coffee I would tell you … I had a new drink this week! A Mexican Mule with a friend. DELICIOUS! She made it for me and I may have to recreate it in my own kitchen. It is snappy and spicy and refreshing.

If we were having coffee I would tell you… I am planning a free 10-minute creativity challenge for June to celebrate my birthday month! More details are coming soon!

Thank you for joining me for coffee today.

I would love to hear something you did this past week that was fueling to you!

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.