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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The Naked Truth
We North Americans live in a throwaway society. We discard clothes, hardly used electronics, toys, games, recreational equipment and, sadly, sometimes relationships or friendships without…
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Tokyo Time
I booked this trip on a whim. The seat sale was so good I couldn’t pass it up. Of course it is the off, off…
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Date with Destiny
I took the cards and shuffled the deck and laid out my choices before the Shelley the Seer. As I turned a card over and…
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Dance Is Life
I used to think my dance lessons were all about timing, steps, musicality, and technique. Lately I have come to realize that that there’s more…
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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.
