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. I need coffee today since we have been driving for many hours. We are traveling to Florida to help with some family stuff.
Do you like long road trips?
If we were having coffee I would tell you… work has been busy! There seemed like there were lots of events and prep that was needed for those events this past week. All joyful work, but it takes time. It is writing adjacent which always seems to take more time than the actual writing!
If we were having coffee I would tell you…I had dinner with my son on Tuesday night and even though it was a short amount of time, we had a great visit. We ended up at a Mexican restaurant and ordered the same meal! Seb and I have a knack for wanting to go to restaurants that are closed on the day we are meeting. We find a new one and make plans to try again where we were met with a closed sign.
If we were having coffee I would tell you…I have been thinking about community and how we feel connected to each other. A dear friend and I have had several life-giving conversations about belonging and how we show up this week. We have also talked about who we exclude. I am trying to come to some new conclusions about people can feel welcome in all sorts of spaces whether they be conversational, education, or otherwise.
Often we belong in a group that has a common interest. It could be cooking, or running, or writing or belief or work.
Through these conversations the question came up: What would it look like if we went somewhere thinking we already belonged and were accepted? What if we didn’t have to feel the need to impress? What would happen?
The question I pose to you is: When do you feel like you belong the most?
If we were having coffee I would tell you… I had some great runs this week. Funny enough, the runs were better on the days it was hot!
What did you write in your notebook today?
If we were having coffee I would tell you… I am continuing with Beth Kempton’s (love her books) IG challenge #meetthewriter. You can check out my posts here: https://www.instagram.com/writertammy/
Beth’s challenge has inspired an idea for my own IG event #readwritegrow
More details are coming soon!
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!
Thank you for joining me for coffee today! I would love to hear something you would tell me about if were having coffee.
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.