Sunday Coffee Share
I invite you to a coffee and a conversation
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If we were having coffee, I would tell you it’s breakfast day and we took my brother -in-law to our regular place. Our waitress wasn’t there today. The omelet was adequate.
Tomorrow we are headed into the city for some AIC and lunch on the Riverwalk!
If we were having coffee, I would tell you I invite you to a Natalie Goldberg style write-in Wednesday, July 29th at 6pm Central!
Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/0UDcOp3kRtuuUXBWiTXueA
We will write in 10-minute chunks. There will be a no-pressure opportunity for some readalouds with NO FEEDBACK. In NG style, after a person reads we all just say “Thank You”. It is a different feeling to a share than other write ins but a valuable experience. Plus, it is just fun to get together and write.
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📚If we were having coffee, I would tell you about my reading.
LAST -
A book I finished: Don’t Call It Art by Austin Kleon
NOW
Ann Patchett Essays - sent to me by my beautiful friend Mereydth - I am loving this collection, and it is fueling my writing
The Hotel Nantucket by Elin Hilderbrand (fun read and there is a ghost)
Night Owl: Poems by Aimee Nezhukumatathil (She is a must-read for me)
Thunder and Lightning Natalie Goldberg
NEXT
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If we were having coffee, I would tell you I had another amazing session with the Thursday Revision Lab.
Broken/Open
Broken/Open
James Crews
There is a difference between
being broken, and broken open.
But we don’t always get to choose
which state we slip into during
moments of pain. If simply broken,
we must seek the help of those
opened by their suffering, trusting
this is how we each take turns.
And if blessed to be broken open
this time, we must become like
a tomato in late summer, having
absorbed so much light and heat,
it finally splits down the middle.
Yet see how birds flock to the crack
in its skin, seeds spilling an urgent
feast for all who come near.
If we were having coffee, I would ask you if you knew I had started a Disney Substack? If you love Disney please check it out! If you don’t love Disney, but know someone who does, please forward it to them! I appreciate it.
My Write Around the World Showcase Guide is available now!
I had to switch to PAYHIP because Gumroad changed their parameters.
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If we were having coffee, I would share some things I enjoyed reading this week:
In my classes, I often ask What is haunting this story? [A Question I picked up from Carmen Maria Machado] This post is aligned with that idea….
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I hope you have an amazing Sunday and the rest of the week! Thank you for reading to the end! If you have a friend you think would enjoy this post, please forward it to them!
A little more about me: Tammy L. Evans is a writer, teacher, and professional curator living in a tiny house on a peninsula with her husband, adventure cat, and Parkour-loving black kitten who has sharp teeth. Her location device is her loud laugh. She is the creator and host of From Zero to Submitted in 8 Weeks. 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, Fiction Berlin Kitchen, and longlisted for the Welkin Prize 2026.