Thanks for checking in this year. Just been hibernating in the real world and been enjoying the break from all this filtered reality. But I plan on seeing you all next year! Have a great Holiday Season! Thanks, Jerry
Thanks for checking in this year. Just been hibernating in the real world and been enjoying the break from all this filtered reality. But I plan on seeing you all next year! Have a great Holiday Season! Thanks, Jerry
It is not an edit, a fix, a mistake. It is an opportunity. A chance to make something better. Who is this world hasn’t benefitted from a second chance in some way or another? I know I have. In fact, I can think of many times when I’ve been given many more chances than I …
A trip to my Starbucks #204 It is the summer of 1992. In my “Starbucks novel”, Tripio, Jay works at a Starbucks store #204 located on north side of Chicago on the corner of Clark, Diversey and Broadway. In Tripio, for the sake of brevity and authenticity, I refer to it simply as store #204, …
An all-time favorite post of mine, reposted for National Coffee Day The land before Starbucks In Tripio, Jay’s prehistoric coffee landscape does share much with the one in which the modern barista roams. Tripio is three plots and narratives alongside and intertwined with each other. The Starbucks growth narrative is told from a barista’s perspective. …
This is a repost for National Coffee Day 2025 – To submit a query, please use the form below. Please fill out all fields. If an agent wishes to read your submission, he or she will contact you in response to your query, usually within 6-8 weeks. Which agent would like to submit to? …
A repost to Celebrate National Coffee Day 2025 I know that I was poking fun at brevity in a recent post, but here I go. I’ve been reading way too much on the history of coffee, so this was just a way of letting of some mind steam. The History of coffee on the back …
Wow. I found this in my drafts folder. I thought I had posted more about Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations. I guess not. It strikes me that since I read Meditations that Ai has been creeping more and more into our lives and even our minds. In the year or so that I read Meditations, Ai has …
I hope you enjoyed the popcorn and used the restroom during the intermission. I have continued to grind away. Before I move on, I must clarify my grind type. As you may be aware, not all grinds are the same. I have a drip coffee maker, an espresso machine, and a French Press maker. Each …
Well, I paused and leaned into the question, “You have to grind away until you find a way.” That will be my response one of these days when I’m asked how I become a global literary superstar. Until then, I will rerun the pretend interview in my head. What is not pretend is that everything …
Books for the Starbucks fan on your list A while back I read How Starbucks Saved my Life by Michael Gates Gill. In the interest of full disclosure, I read it out of curiosity, as opposed to organic intellectual interest. In other words, I read it to see how that memoir compared to my historical …
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