by Chris Gajewski | Jul 25, 2022 | Episode Transcripts, Friends of GInA, Podcast, The Coffee Chronicles
Episode 2 is done, published and uploaded. You can listen to it from the webpage directly, linked below, and I have no idea if you can download it from your favorite app–I’m working on it. The battle between me and technology is almost on par with me vs...
by Chris Gajewski | Jul 24, 2022 | Episode Transcripts, Podcast, The Coffee Chronicles
It’s finished! Kind of. Okay, not quite, but I am getting there. I started my podcast and the first episode is a wrap. It is being hosted on Podbean and I still haven’t figured out how to share the direct feed. You can listen to it on their server....
by Chris Gajewski | Jul 19, 2022 | Friends of GInA, The Coffee Chronicles
Yes, I have been procrastinating. You would too. A couple years ago, a friend, a psychiatrist, told me to step away from this project. But it is time. I had a funny conversation with another friend a few years back. For some reason, she always imagined me as the...
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 6, 2022 | The Coffee Chronicles
A friend just had to cancel her trip to Iceland. She came into contact with someone who had been exposed to Covid. To possibly cheer her up, I thought I would share my major screw up. So, under the “misadventures” category… I never got around to...
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 | 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 | 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 | Apr 1, 2020 | The Coffee Chronicles
This is just WEIRD. I’m sipping my coffee at 7am. In case you don’t know, I’m not a morning person. I have NEVER been a morning person. For 48 years, through grade school, high school, college, jobs and careers, I always slept in–the Drill...
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 | Dec 31, 2019 | The Coffee Chronicles
Who am I? Right now, I’m just a very exhausted person coming out of a deep depression. I am very old man. If you do the math, I’m about 648? A very long time ago, in an apartment in West Philly, a friend mentioned something that stuck with me. He said it seemed like I...
by Chris Gajewski | Oct 15, 2019 | The Coffee Chronicles
I was talking to a group of millennials the other day who were sharing a house a West Philly. I enjoy talking to millennials: the way they look at things and the pure entertainment value far, far exceeds the annoyance. But they were trying to explain to me that age is...
by Chris Gajewski | Aug 24, 2019 | The Coffee Chronicles
[An aside: Before anybody thinks about picking up the phone and 302’ing me, don’t. Keep in mind. I am writing a book. I am writing in the moment (or from the past). I am getting naked. It is hard, it is painful, but there is also purpose and hope involved...
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 | Jun 26, 2016 | The Coffee Chronicles
Grief can be such a powerful thing. I’ve seen the passing of a loved one destroy people, and even kill them. I never know what to say, what to do, how to act. “My thoughts are with you and your family” seems such a paltry thing. It is even harder when they die too...
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 25, 2016 | The Coffee Chronicles
Embrace the life and memories, a cousin wrote to me. Embrace the moon and good thoughts of life. Sound advice. Good advice. And like all of the advice I receive, I try. I push out from this cocoon of sadness and hurt. Grasp at the life, the memories, the moon and...
