You cant control how other people feel, act or what they say, you can only control how you react to them.
I sat here for a few moments, letting the coffee seep into the fibers deepest in my mind. I was hoping that the caffeine would unlock a barrage of insight to me that my hands could unleash onto this blank slate I knew one day you would read. However, the caffeinated water has yet to unearth any great mysteries and I am still here, looking at a blank screen. With that said and now written in black and white, so that I cannot ignore it any further, let me start with what everyone else does: with the clichés.
I was born in Germany and raised in Southern/Central Illinois. I currently live in Tampa Florida. I have one dog and a cat, who run our apartment. I have a long love affair with books and writing and loath grammar. I write all of my first drafts on a 1960’s Smith/Corona typewriter and enjoy nothing more than waking up early, to my partners disdain, and writing the morning away.
I am not a bar person, whatever that means; I read it on some insightful profile last