In the Little Towne, We Are All Connected

One of my favorite things about living and working in a close knit neighborhood is the intimacy between all of us, whose working lives intersect in so many ways. We do business together, drink coffee together and laugh at eachother's jokes.

Mornings in the cafe, I am surrounded by my oldest friends--Joe O'Rourke, Paul Hartshorne, Bill Hewitt, Steve Hartshorne and Joe Obeng are all regulars who come in and browse the papers while sipping coffee.

Then the local business people with whom we do business pop in. Marcy Schwartz owns a dog grooming shop down a few blocks.
Mike Rose works at Leader Home Center and comes in for his daily bagels. Jay Di Pucchio owns a company that is making big plastic globes in town. Then there are the legions who come from right across the street, where CISA and the Woodlands Foundation are located.

There are many others who come in every day who I greet but can't remember their names. The cafe is their place to get away from work, and sink into a chair and have private time to read the papers.

I am always breezing in and out of the cafe and I get to say hello to many of them. We are working on Marcy's dog grooming website now. We buy sundries and lumber all the time from Mike down at Leaders. Joe works on all of their computers, and Joe also works for me at GoNOMAD. Bill designed our counters and some of our cabinets. Jim Taylor is our sign guy, he also did our renovations in February when we expanded the cafe.

We are all interconnected in the little towne. And I love it!