Coffee Novelist

I don’t write about coffee, I write about what coffee does. How it collects us, unites us and affects us.

SOMEDAY EVERYTHING IS GONNA BE DIFFERENT            I few nights ago I watched “I’m Not in it For My Health” which is a documentary on Levon Helm. The DVD around for a while on loan from the library and I had put off watching it because I knew that Levon had died in 2012. It was …

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In my coffee shop fiction novel, Tripio, Jay works at a Starbucks 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 ,or even just #204. This was a very early Starbucks location as …

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