Tag: coffee
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J O
You’ve had a solid run, Josie Greer as our baker at Mayfly Coffee. You’ve made some killer scones, expanded our gluten free offerings all the while with a work ethic that is unparalleled. When most High School Juniors and Seniors were still sleeping you were up countless early mornings going up on the mountain to bake your…
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K E N Z I E
When she was in 8th grade she stepped behind our cash register at Cadence Coffee on 7th and started taking orders. She learned the skills she needed to become an excellent barista and equally excellent manager at not one but two locations. When I asked her to take the manager role at Mayfly she took the role…
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N O A C C I D E N T S
I saw your picture today. You were in my “memories.” You won’t remember us – but we can never forget you. You came into our life as unexpectedly as you left. I’ll never forget the night at church when your mom walked in from the streets and asked me to pray for you in her…
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Sidewalk Conversations // 91520
I carry this book with me just about everywhere I go. I’ve become so accustomed to having it with me that I sometimes forget it’s there. It brings me comfort, offers me wise counsel, corrects me, and gives me hope. I find life in its pages – real life. Sadly, I take it for granted.…
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Meet me for coffee?
One of the things I love most about working at a coffee shop is the opportunity to have coffee with folks that stop in for a few minutes before heading off to their busy day. If I could do that full time . . . I’d be way over caffeinated, but so stinking happy. That’s…
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Praying in Cirlces
They are one of the first and easiest shapes we learn to draw in school, or even pre-school. They don’t have to be perfect, just relatively discernable. They are naturally formed when we stand in a group of people. If we get lost, we get the most frustrated when we realize that we’ve been driving in them…
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Cadence Collective
Before I ever ventured into the “coffee business” my ideal “third place” was a local coffee shop with my computer, my headphones, and settling in for a couple of hours of productivity. I did some of my best work right there at that table with life happening all around me. I’m not a “behind the…
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Small miracles? Really?
If you have spent any time with me over the last two years, you know that I am fully aware of the fact that I am not a natural born businessman. Running a small business is perhaps the most challenging and frightening thing I have ever done in my four decades of life. Over the…
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Lost & Found
Her mom and dad were standing in our shop today, they looked so weary and worried. They had driven to Chattanooga from Ohio to find their daughter who had gone off the grid and they hadn’t heard from her in a while. They knew she was in a dark place spiritually, emotionally and physically and…
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The Rock In My Pocket
I stood there with him on the side of the road, waiting for the tow truck to arrive. The country road was quiet, with the exception of the occasional passer-by, and so was he. He was trying to be hopeful, and keep a right perspective, but this was the third vehicle malfunction his family had dealt…