Sunday Coffee Share
Sunday Coffee Share
A Cup of Coffee and a Conversation
Thank you for joining me for a coffee and a chat this July Sunday. Let’s pour ourselves a cup from the pot that is hot and ready and begin our conversation!
I am having my normal black coffee today. We went to breakfast early today because my husband had a class he needed to be at by 7:30 am. I had many cups of coffee and am not onto water.
The sun is shining today and it is cooler here. I ran yesterday and it was in the upper 60’s! The humidity was still high but it was a good run.
If we were having coffee I would tell you… I was busy yesterday working on writing residency applications. I sent out two and now there is the waiting game. I am not going to think too much about it now. They are sent off. The questions required me to think more closely about how I write and why. It was a good experience and reflection even if the residencies don’t come through.
If we were having coffee I would tell you…I have been reading and got through The Seven Year Slip in about 24 hours! It was wonderful. Full of magical apartments, books, chefs, and fun! I picked up Lisa See’s new book from the library and spent a good part of the evening reading. It is good, but different than I expected.
If we were having coffee I would tell you…I have been thinking a lot about temporary vs permanence.
Pam Houston, on a podcast, spoke about her $21,000 check from selling her book and wanting to buy something permanent with that money, so she bought a ranch.
In Padrig O’Tuama’s Substack today he posed the question, “What have you done today that sets you in your location, wherever it is, however temporary or permanent it seems?”
The idea of temporary vs permanence always brings me to Alice the Fairy by David Shannon. It is a children’s book I have read to 100’s of children.
My favorite mantra is “Everything is temporary” the good and the bad.
There are things I would like to believe are permanent, but I am not. I am mortal and will die someday. I hope it is many years from now, but that is uncertain. When I was younger and had not lived through the experiences I have, I believed in things being more of the forever variety. Even permanent marker wears off eventually.
The question I pose to you is: Do you believe in permanent?
If we were having coffee I would tell you… speaking of questions some great ones were presented in Cait’s Substack! She asked 38 questions for her birthday. One of the practices she wrote about was writing down the questions she asked herself in her journal over the last year. I thought this was an interesting practice and may write down some from my own notebooks!
What did you write in your notebook today?
If we were having coffee I would tell you… I have been doing Beth Kempton’s (love her books) IG challenge #meetthewriter. You can check out my posts here: https://www.instagram.com/writertammy/ Yesterday the prompt was about champions for your writing. My biggest champion of course is Chris but I do have lots of support around me! When you are on the right path, the universe shows you in lots of ways. I am happy he is back in my life. I am loved…and he is loved back!
If we were having coffee I would tell you… I am teaching a Bradbury Trio course starting August 6. The class will be 12 weeks of curated poems, stories, and essays. There are weekly assignments that will be posted in a private Slack channel. If you are looking to deepen your writing and reading practice this is for you. If you are interested, send me an email at writertammyevans@gmail.com and I will send you the payment info. Detailed information is at the bottom of this post.
I did read some interesting pieces this week and will be sharing them on Tuesday!
If we were having coffee I would tell you…
Thank you for joining me for coffee today! I would love to hear something you would tell me about if were having coffee. How is your summer going? How are you nourishing yourself?
This 12 -week course will begin on August 6, 2023.
Registration is open now! Send an email to writertammyevans@gmail.com for payment info.
Weekly Readings: You will receive an email on Sunday with 5 days of curated material. You will receive 5 poems, 5 stories, and 5 essays which allows the opportunity for you to supplement with your own choices. There will be flash and longer pieces.
Weekly Writing Assignment: This will be an action that will be assigned each week. You are welcome to do the assignment with multiple pieces. You will choose one to post to the Private Slack Group’s Bradbury Trio channel. Weekly assignments will be due on Saturday. You will get feedback from me
Additional Assignment: There will also be other suggestions to work with the materials in case one assignment is not enough for you.
Three Zoom Meetings: There will be an introduction Zoom for everyone to meet and ask questions. Midpoint there will be a check-in Zoom with sharing of pieces that participants have found they loved. There will be a Celebration Zoom at the end. Zooms will be held on three Sundays. (A poll will go out for times. It depends on how many parts of the world we have on our roster.)
Slack Space: In addition to the assignment channel there will be a discussion channel so students can chat with each other and ask questions. You will also have access to the resources that are part of the Writer Tammy space already. You also have access to my knowledge of the writing world and will have opportunities to ask questions.
Bonus: For the duration of the class you will receive free membership to my PUSH group that meets once a month. We share wins, write together, and have intelligent conversation about the creative life.
Price: $275
Questions? Send me an email: writertammyevans@gmail.com
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.