Post Canada Coffee Share
A Cup of Coffee and a Conversation
Thank you for joining me for a coffee and a chat today.
If we were having coffee I would tell you…Chris and I went to the Quetico Provincial Park in Ontario Canada for a week of primitive camping. He has embarked on this adventure with various groups for more than 30 years! This summer he planned a special trip just for us. It was amazing to be unplugged and to be in a place you could only get to by canoeing.
We saw the moon grow every night. We heard loons and saw an eagle. We fished and ate what we caught. The views were breathtaking.
We ate wild strawberries and blueberries!
Canada was full of a peace I didn’t know I needed.
If we were having coffee I would tell you….this week I had a hard time coming back to the schedule of life. Being unplugged for over a week allowed less distractions. Those distractions seemed to pile up and be waiting for me when I came back! I had 750 emails clogging the inbox upon return.
The drive back was odd. We were caught up in traffic outside of Wisconsin Dells, not Chicago , like normal.
If we were having coffee I would tell you….I wrote a lot when I was in Canada. I read several books. I read Natalie Goldberg’s new one, Writing On Empty. I also read Deborah Levy’s The Cost of Living.
I am almost done with The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit now. It was a surprise to find Iceland in this book!
If we were having coffee I would tell you…..I learned about what my phone will do on airplane mode and what it won’t.
If we were having coffee I would tell you…I got back to some walking this week. Some alone, some with Chris, and some with my walking partner Katie.
If we were having coffee I would tell you…I am teaching a brand new Bradbury Trio course starting September 8th! Registration begins in mid-August.
More details are coming soon. In addition to the base class, this round you can sign up for one-on-one coaching to propel your goals in the class.
Everything will be more streamlined this session and I hope you can join us. I have light to share with you!
If we were having coffee I would tell you…we are back to our ritual of breakfast on Sunday today! What is your favorite breakfast to order out? We had our regular today and it was delicious.
It wasn’t supposed to rain but it seems water is in the forecast today now. I have three meetings so will be busy in my office!
If we were having coffee I would ask you… are you watching the Olympics?
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, walker, 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.
I love to order omelets out because, try as I might, I can never make them the same at home. I am excited to hear that you will be doing the Bradbury Trio again in the fall. I am still on a school schedule so I will have more time.
I'd love to have an iced passion fruit green tea with you on this hot day in Taiwan. We still have some rain falling in the aftermath of Typhoon Gaemi, so the humidity levels are quite high. I took July off work to rest and relax at home, so napping and going for long walks and jogs has put me in a much healthier frame of mind. Also, having my kids at home and spending time with them has reminded me of when I was a young teen. The world seems so black and white when you've only been in it for 12 or 13 years. A few trees were knocked down by the 86-mile-an-hour typhoon winds. Looking at the horizontal results had me thinking about how my creative work could be like a tree with all of its beautiful branches and leaves - the very things that make it beautiful might be the things that a strong wind can use to knock it down. The secret is to have strong roots, a strong foundation nourished by craft and passion and confidence. "Writing On Empty" sounds so interesting. I had a look on Amazon and read the introduction shared in the Read Inside button. I've put the book in my cart and will reward myself with a purchase when I'm done with the next draft of my novel. :-)