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As the tables clear out and things wind down in the back, I catch Veva’s eye, her sun gold smile that of a true friend. “I’m so glad you’re here, Katey.” “I’m glad you’re here,” I say. Veva [...]

HERE’S ANOTHER: When my neighbor Bill invited me in last week to talk about our driveway, I got up the nerve to ask him if he trained. Whether he’s a nervous talker or just a talker I [...]

Thirteen thousand million things happened today. I’m going to see if I can write about some of them: It’s my day off and it’s hot in BigCity, NC where I’ve driven for an appointment with my [...]

This year, instead of staying underground with Shady’s Café, we go above ground with The Dinner Club, a higher-class reservations-only benefit dinner for the local Montessori school. Emphasis on [...]

I’m gearing up to write an essay about another underground restaurant experience and in an attempt to re-read the history, I found these old blog posts. These links will be posted again [...]

“I’ll tell you what, I don’t know how you do it. This road is a wreck. How do you manage in winter?” says Dave, a native of Fork Mountain whom I’ve invited up the road to get an estimate on [...]

I call the dojo upon waking, finally ready to express what’s been on my mind about the training for the past two months. Hanshi’s wife Dori answers and we chat, then she hands Hanshi the phone. [...]

Slowly, reality slips in. No one is helping students consolidate loans anymore. Not Sallie Mae, not Next Student, not Bank of America, not Student Loan Xpress. After many calls, I ask an agent [...]

Today, when my friend told me she has breast cancer, I chuckled and said, “What do you mean?” I might have even been smiling. “I mean, there’s a lump in my breast and the lump has cancer,” she [...]

It’s 12:20pm and time for the lunch rush at the coffeehouse, usually a two or three person job (bare minimum) but it’s change-over weekend (between sessions) on campus and raining out, so my boss [...]