by Chris Gajewski | Jul 3, 2022 | Friends of GInA, The Coffee Chronicles
Special intro that I will be taking out once I post this. If you are on my email list, you get this automatically. I think. I am wrestling with the email thingie so really have no idea. I am writing again, redoing my website, refocusing it and I’ll be adding...
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...
by Chris Gajewski | Mar 25, 2020 | Friends of GInA, The Coffee Chronicles
This is my final battle ground. I know the names of my demons. I know their features, their smell, their habits and hiding places. I know their attack patterns. This one, though, I do not know. And it has stalked me all of my life. Recent events had me move my office...
by Chris Gajewski | Aug 23, 2019 | Friends of GInA, The Coffee Chronicles
Does the introduction come before the foreword or vice versa? Anyway… Let’s get naked! I mean, nobody else is going to write about this crap. I have read articles and clinical pieces and short essays on depression, but nothing that really gets naked about it, reveals...
by Chris Gajewski | Feb 17, 2016 | Friends of GInA, The Coffee Chronicles
[I actually wrote this one a few months ago. I sometimes wonder why I hit “publish,” but then I remember that I need to look at myself in a mirror and this is it. And I wonder if by others looking at me looking at myself in the mirror, I can find some...
by Chris Gajewski | Jan 18, 2016 | Friends of GInA, The Coffee Chronicles
[Maybe a bit dramatic, but I am feeling a bit dramatic today.] Protect your queen. I’m not sure if it was from a movie or a television show. The West Wing? The master against the amateur. A flurry of moves with pieces being taken from the chess board. Protect your...
by Chris Gajewski | Dec 13, 2015 | Friends of GInA, The Coffee Chronicles
A few columns ago, I realized crazy was back. Now, he’s riding shotgun, just a tiny little nugget in the back of my mind. I thought I would take him for a spin. This is both metaphorical and literal. Crazy really is riding shotgun. He can be there every time I step...
