Tag: coffee adventures


  • Remember when I told the story about my first inspirational coffee experience? So. ..I may have gotten a little excited. It started off well enough. I had my very first artisan coffee experience at Zoey’s Cafe in Ashland, and Starbucks became the coffee of convenience, reserved for days when I wanted to write poetically random…

  • “You were already more beautiful than anything I dared to dream. In our years apart, my imaginings did their best to improve your perfection. At night, your face was forever behind my eyes. And now I see that that vision who kept me company in my loneliness was a hag compared to the beauty now…

  • It’s New Year’s Day, 2026. I am sitting on a cold, mist-soaked bench on a gray and rainy day on the silent beach of Goldwater Lake. A duck is sitting motionless in the center of the water. The mountain valley usually visible from here is draped in a sleepy white blanket of fog. I can…