It Was Just a Coffee… Until It Wasn’t

It was just a coffee...

Something ordinary. Almost routine. The kind of moment you would never expect to remember years later.

And yet, something wonderful happened there.

A simple coffee became the beginning of a story, one that stayed with me long enough to eventually find its way onto the pages of my first book, Unexpectedly, You, based on a true story.

Today, I found myself walking through some of those places again. Familiar streets. Little cafés. Restaurants I hadn’t thought about in a while. Corners of the city that, without warning, brought back moments I thought time had quietly tucked away.

And the funny thing about memories is that they don’t always return as something sad.

Sometimes they simply make you smile.

They remind you that something happened. That you were there. That you felt it. That for one small chapter of your life, an ordinary place became anything but ordinary.

Maybe that’s one of the reasons I write.

Because places change. People move on. Time does what time does.

But stories?

Stories have a beautiful way of keeping certain moments exactly where we left them.

And today, for a little while, I got to walk through mine again.

Have you read Unexpectedly, You yet? Maybe it’s time to discover the story behind all those memories 🌸