Sunday Coffee Share
Sunday Coffee Share
A Cup of Coffee and a Conversation
Thank you for joining me for a coffee and a chat today. Let’s pour ourselves a cup and begin our conversation!
If we were having coffee I would tell you… breakfast this morning was early! I have a class that began last week with Sabrina Orah Mark and continues for several more Sundays. There is a lot of reading and the assignments are interesting. Workshopping with a new group is fueling as well. It is a long morning however with 10 people in the workshop.
I have been working on the same story for the bulk of the week which is not the normal practice. I generate new writing daily, but usually dip back into drafts of a manuscript I am pulling together. This week’s work has been fueling in a different way and it has been good.
Last week at breakfast we took a big sheet of paper and crayons and drew while we waited for our food to come to the table. Big smiles all around. We sit at a regular table and have a regular waitress. It is a great ceremony to begin the week.
If we were having coffee I would tell you…all the weeks seem busy. I finished another notebook and have adopted the practice of writing on the right hand pages only as a recommendation from Katherine May. I am hoping it will encourage me to dig back into the notebooks rather than just putting them on the shelf. This has been hit or miss all week. I feel like I am wasting pages.
Andrew Porter said he skips lines in his notebooks and I may adopt that practice and try it on to see how that feels. It is always a process.
If we were having coffee I would tell you…we have been eating many tomatoes. The garden is bursting with them. I have cooked with them and many tomato sandwiches have been consumed. Every time Chris and I walk we bring back a bag of tomatoes from the garden!
If we were having coffee I would tell you… the temperatures here have been up and down. Today they are up again. I need to drink more water and keep trying to remind myself.
If we were having coffee I would tell you…last week Chris and I spent the week a couple of hours from where we live. I was able to get a lot of writing done in the hotel. It was a treat to have new restaurant dinners in a place we spend time in. We found a used bookstore that also sold chocolates. We went to the Italian restaurant we love. I got seriously carded there which was funny. We had dinner at a brewery and then went to a whiskey bar afterwards. We went to the Boathouse restaurant right on Lake Wiona. The week was full of new adventures.
It was great to not have to drive back and forth each day, but Chris and I were both ready to come home to our house (and our bed) by the end of the week.
I am grateful every day for the life I get to have now. Chris is the main reason for that happiness and gratitude.
If we were having coffee I would tell you...I want to hear something about your week that made it better than last week.
If we were having coffee I would tell you…I received notice of an acceptance this week so that was amazing. I also submitted some more pieces so my streak continues.
If we were having coffee I would tell you… week 5 of the Bradbury course started today. I reread all the selections with my students and found it influencing my writing. The discussion has been vibrant and fun in Slack. I imagine us all around a large dinner table, talking about writing, and it is a wonderful vision.
Thank you for joining me for coffee today! I would love to hear something you would tell me about if were having coffee.
A little more about me: Tammy L. Evans is a writer, teacher, and coach living in a tiny house on a peninsula with her husband and adventure cat. Her location device is her loud laugh. 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, Cabinets of Heed, Spelk, Five on the Fifth, Clover and White, Fiction Berlin Kitchen, and others.