Cafe Girl Chronicles

Stories, serendipity, and the people we meet along the way.

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  • First, let me thank everyone for touching base to make sure that all was well at the Chronicles. I’m happy to say that it is. That, for the past six months, I’ve been taking a small break. I’ve been “unplugged” from everything: book, blog, twitter, FB and, yes, even email.…

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  • 2011 in review

    The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds…

  • New Year, New Beginnings and a New Chapter

    In every writer’s life there are two stumbling blocks to overcome. On second thought, make them stone walls to surmount: writer’s bloc and writer’s resistance.…

  • What Color Should Your Writing Room Be?

    photos: ©iStockphoto.com/photodjo Color has a profound psychological impact on our lives. It’s used every day to stimulate our senses, excite us, calm us and, yes,…

  • Why I Read – A Short List

    Many years ago, a friend, mentor, teacher and author gave me a T-shirt that said: So many books, so little time. That phrase has been…

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I’m Catherine Larose — storyteller, traveler, and dweller in possibility.

For years I’ve been collecting stories in cafés, on trains, in airports, and around dinner tables.

Café Girl Chronicles is where I share reflections on connection, friendship, reinvention, and the people we meet along the way. Big moments may change the course of our lives, but it’s often the everyday exchanges—over coffee, conversation, and unexpected encounters—that become the stories we remember.

Those moments can happen anywhere. I’m simply looking for the places where they’re most likely to find me somewhere between life and latte.

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