Stay in bed, the small voice inside my head tells me. I don’t like to stay in bed. Stay in bed, it repeats. If you get up, you’ll only make things worse. I CAN’T stay in bed. I’m too restless. I have to fix things. I have to make things right. Or at least I […]
Managing Expectations
The scrambles can all go together in one pan. The sunny sides need to cook separately. I have enough space on the cooktop to manage three orders of home fries; sausage and pancakes on the griddle. That leaves one order of over-medium, two over-easies, the oatmeal, and three more orders of home fries plus the […]
The Open Flag
OPEN flags are like babies. They change you for life. Just as pregnancy hormones alone started unraveling the do-good school girl in me, causing me to suddenly challenge doctors, stare down speeding cars when I approached a cross walk or stand up to pushy people; so too did the mere knowledge that the OPEN flag […]
Customer Service
There is no Pepsi in our cooler. We offer regionally-made kombucha. There are no Snickers bars on our counter. We bake fresh pie every morning from local fruit. We don’t fry eggs to order. We can’t grow enough eggs to supply our local customers’ demand for fresh eggs as it is. We don’t sell sandwiches. The […]
If I’d Only Known.
Saoirse and I are standing on a curb in front of a Starbucks in Albany amidst a sea of suits and cell phones. It doesn’t take long for me to find Steve, who we are waiting for. Steve Hoare owns Black Dome Press, a small, local, independent publishing house that focuses on books of […]