Sunday Coffee Share
A Cup of Coffee and a Conversation
My Darkest Side of the Moon coffee on the Art Institute Member Terrace!
If we were having coffee, I would tell you…it’s BREAKFAST DAY! YAY! We missed last weekend because Chris and I were driving back from Canada. We have my brother-in-law from Florida with us too. (Tammy’s Airport service picked him up yesterday.) It is always nice to have Steven here. He is traveling for work this week but will be back at the end of the week.
If we were having coffee, I would tell you…yesterday we worked in Chris’ son’s backyard getting a space together for a fire ring, some chairs, and a hammock. With 6 of us working, it went pretty fast. I also made potato salad to take. It has been super hot here so I had to do it in stages. Lately, I have been obsessed with chopping veggies (esp celery and onions) and keeping them in the fridge which makes it feel like the process of making the potato salad and other dishes so much faster.
If we were having coffee, I would tell you…I heard the phrase, “Wear your clothes,” on IG and it has been circling in my head since. It is the idea not to “save” clothes for special occasions. The influencer was wearing sequinned shorts that day just to run errands!
On another note….am I missing my running path that I had last week in Canada? Yes, the answer to that question is yes. HAHAHA
If we were having coffee, I would ask you…The Bibliotherapists podcast is back!
I love their tagline: “Therapy with a reading list”. I am an admirer and subscriber to the With Ease Substack. Tanya is a co-host for the podcast.
If we were having coffee, I would tell you…The Book of Alchemy/Full Moon writing conversation was amazing on Thursday! If you missed it and want more details about what we talked and wrote about, you can find that information below.
I received my Paris Review in the mail yesterday and am looking forward to reading it this week. I love the variety of fiction, poetry and interviews. There are many a writer who swear by the interviews and the learning you can glean from those words.
If we were having coffee, I would tell you…I am teaching the next round of the Bradbury Trio in August. The spaces are filling up! I am super excited for this round. The themes are Family and Experiments. You can find the information here:
You're Invited to a Gathering at the Table
The Bradbury Trio Course begins August 3, 2025 and I would love for you to join us!
Here are photos from this week:
I wish you a good week!! What are you obsessed with right now? I would love to know.
Thank you for reading. I have incredible people in my life and I am the happiest I have ever been in this phase of my life. Much of that happiness can be attributed to Chris and the life we build together, but it is also my community of reader and writer friends. Thank you for being here and joining me along the journey. Your energy comes through and I feel it surrounding me!
A little more about me: Tammy L. Evans is a writer, teacher, and runner 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.
Happy Sunday, my friend. Love the pics you posted this week. You ask me what I'm obsessed with right now, and I think it's library-building. I'm not too obsessive generally, but I've been slowly on the hunt for bibliographic objects to add to my possessions. Moving to Spain required leaving behind the thousands of volumes I had collected over decades, and I transitioned to ebooks starting two years before we left, but I do so miss the material object itself. My neighborhood has a great used book store, and today I ran into a free book table at a sustainability fair. I've always been a little enchanted by the serendipity of used book stores; the universe putting an unexpected gift in my path. Today I acquired a poetry book by a Galician author, written in Galician, which I sort of understand and want to get better at. Now that I think about it, books have been an obsession since the beginning...
Building a fire pit. Woo hoo! And cutting up veggies to keep cool in the fridge. Yes! It works. I have to re-start doing it.
I'm obsessed with plastic bags. Stores do not give them out anymore but restaurants sometimes do with take-out or leftovers. I'm always unreasonably happy when I receive one because I can recycle them to line bins in the house and use them for cleaning cat litter...
It's the little things.
Finally, who is the delicious blue-grey kitty and her babies? I'm in love.