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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  • Blog Tour Wrap Up

    As part of my 2011 book promotion / marketing efforts, I participated in WOW!’s Blog Tour. For those of you who are new to The…

  • And Some Days All You Need is a Good Cleaning Lady…

    I don’t know how she did it, but the amazing Tilda managed to remove the rhinestone! As the descendant of superstitious Italian and Irish grandparents,…

  • Please Don’t Let Go!

    I never meet interesting men on planes. Given all the flying I do, you would think the odds would be in my favor. But it…

  • Some Days I Really Miss Having a Man Around…and Some Days Not

    Like most women I know, I am self-reliant, independent and opinionated. These are three characteristics that scare the heck out of most men my age.…

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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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