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 | Jan 16, 2016 | The Coffee Chronicles
Yes, yes: more coffee please. Toss in a few aspirin. And 15 hours of sleep. But this is what I wrote the other night, with some editing, and an afterword. The last “afterword” is still a ways off. For being drunk, I don’t think I did all that bad… So damn exhausted....
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...
by Chris Gajewski | Nov 16, 2015 | The Coffee Chronicles
“C’mon, baby. Come to papa.” I’m on the edge of my seat, like a top college athlete and the team rep is on stage about to announce their first round draft pick. “It’s mine. All mine.” I excelled in the combine. Took the tests and failed/passed them all. I show all of...
by Chris Gajewski | Nov 7, 2015 | The Coffee Chronicles
(I sometimes wonder if I talk too much, write too much, reveal too much? But then I remember that not talking is what got me into trouble in the first place. And then I think that that is what might be keeping other people in trouble. So, I write.) It was one of the...
by Chris Gajewski | Nov 5, 2015 | The Coffee Chronicles
Yep, still tinkering. I have over 1,000 columns for Coffee Chronicles. Many of them are, well, crap. They are an exploration of the landscape of my mind, trying to find a way out of depression, anxiety and the gentler insanities that ruled my life for so many years....
by Chris Gajewski | Oct 31, 2015 | The Coffee Chronicles
The Wine Chronicles Yes, I am a Star Wars geek. The second trilogy was not great, but I still love them anyway (I would love to know who was sleeping with who to get that kid the part in Phantom Menace). I think it might have something to do (my embrace of my...
by Chris Gajewski | Oct 18, 2015 | The Coffee Chronicles
Justin Timberlake doesn’t have anything on me. He might have brought Sexy back (God love him for it) but I brought Crazy back. With JT, Sexy was just there, strutting across the music video with him. With Crazy, it took me a while to realize he was riding shotgun...
by Chris Gajewski | Jun 18, 2015 | The Coffee Chronicles
On her 44th birthday, I want to repost something that I wrote for my friend. How can you say that she “lost” the battle against cancer after fighting against overwhelming odds for 14 years? Sitting in that hospital room was probably one of the most...
by Chris Gajewski | May 28, 2015 | The Coffee Chronicles
The doorstep to suicide is the loneliest place in the universe. I’ve been there, so understand. Many people don’t, and that is understandable. How can someone be expected to comprehend such a distortion of reality? I’ve stood in a room full of people...
by Chris Gajewski | May 26, 2015 | The Coffee Chronicles
Time for some coffee… As I pass into my 44th year, I reflect. My birthdays don’t bother me the way that they do some. I also don’t like to shrug them off as being just another day. Hey: it is my day (shared with a few million other people). The day I began the...
