by Chris Gajewski | Jan 28, 2025 | An Odyssey Through Covid America, The Coffee Chronicles
I settled into my new home in Texas, even had a few dates, but I knew what was coming, what I needed to get through to get on to “next.” The hurricane was coming and I knew there was nothing I could do about it. The working title of my biography about my...
by Chris Gajewski | Aug 9, 2023 | An Odyssey Through Covid America
The Final Edition Who would have thought? I never did. In 2020, I took the pandemic personally. Yes, I can be an absurd kind of person at times. But dammit, how dare the world’s midlife crisis interfere with my own? I worked hard for it! I earned it! I was...
by Chris Gajewski | Jul 13, 2023 | An Odyssey Through Covid America
The home of my dreams is no more. I’ll miss the koi. I’ll miss the beautiful landscaping that my wife made happen over the last six years. Not so much the weeding. I found an interesting thing: it was never really a home the past six years. It was only since I sold my...
by Chris Gajewski | Jun 11, 2023 | An Odyssey Through Covid America
With the help of @Kaleoofficial a brief foray into a road trip that spanned 152 days, close to 40,000 miles, all 50 states and lots of coffee. I wandered through America and into myself. “Beautifully written memoir takes us into a personal and cultural journey!...
by Chris Gajewski | Jul 15, 2022 | A Visual Journey, An Odyssey Through Covid America, The Coffee Chronicles
Yes, yes, yes: I was spacing out these posts section by section. But then the project got away from me. And it was a project! Maybe I went a little overboard? But I wanted to wrap this up to move on to the next projects. I am working on the third (and possibly final)...
by Chris Gajewski | Jul 12, 2022 | A Visual Journey, An Odyssey Through Covid America, The Coffee Chronicles
The project over two years in the making is coming along. I bring you part four: Ghosting Through the South. This is harder than it looks. All respect to photo editors and photographers. I took thousands of photos along my odyssey through Covid America. I am going...
by Chris Gajewski | Jul 10, 2022 | A Visual Journey, An Odyssey Through Covid America, The Coffee Chronicles
Drifting in the Current The house was sold, the new owners were moving in the following day, and the car was kind of packed–I’d get better at it as I went. I made that last left turn out of my driveway, the right onto my bootlegging back road that would take me into...
by Chris Gajewski | Jul 9, 2022 | A Visual Journey, An Odyssey Through Covid America, The Coffee Chronicles
Struggling in Lockdown “Struggling in Lockdown” is Part One of the book. Part One is where I struggled the most in writing the book, only second to the final part. I hadn’t hit my stride yet, gotten my rhythm. Rewriting it for the book was difficult, trying to piece...
by Chris Gajewski | Jul 2, 2022 | A Visual Journey, An Odyssey Through Covid America, The Coffee Chronicles
Is this thing still working? Do I still have subscribers? Anyway… A project that has been on my mind since I first thought of my road trip through Covid America was a Coffee Table type book, just a surface swim through my experiences and less than ideal...
by Chris Gajewski | May 29, 2020 | An Odyssey Through Covid America, Current Journey
For love of youth. For love of immortality. For love of that single pitch that can define the outcome of nine innings. For love of the game. I always hated baseball when I was a kid. It was boring. I would much rather watch the lighting fast play of football or...
by Chris Gajewski | May 9, 2020 | An Odyssey Through Covid America, Current Journey
The motto of the infantry is “Follow me!” Yeah: don’t do that. If we are all in the same boat, put me on a little schooner by myself. I see Niagara Falls ahead and am thinking, “this could be fun? Hold my coffee and watch this.” O Captain, My Captain! But I just...
by Chris Gajewski | Apr 3, 2020 | An Odyssey Through Covid America, Friends of GInA, The Coffee Chronicles
From Peter Gabriel’s “Mercy Street.” Let’s take the boat out Wait until darkness Let’s take the boat out Wait until darkness comes Let’s take the boat out and contemplate the one word in the translation of “aloha” that never seemed to fit, but it seems more and more...
