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...
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 | 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...
