Stories, serendipity, and the people we meet along the way.
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.…
I often find myself in new places for business and because I’m in and out of a city quite quickly, I don’t always have much…
I used to think that one could only be “beamed” up to another place and time using a Star Trek transporter but I was wrong.…
The secret is out. Now that my life is officially an open book, the world (I have friends on six continents) knows that I am…
Okay, so how did you do? Several of you have e-mailed me worried about your low color scores. First let me say that this is…

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.