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 | Apr 2, 2023 | The Coffee Chronicles
Introduction: Yes, I’ve been gone for a long time. I’ve been busy starting a new business so some things had to go on the back burner, like The Coffee Chronicles. It actually feels good to be writing a column again. I’ll be trying to do more of it...
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...
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....
