A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR

Coffee, A Sip of You and Me is a collection of prose and poetry. It's living; it's breathing; it's steaming. It's fully brewed and waiting to be sipped time and time again. It's lying on your coffee table, reminding you that this was never about coffee. Rather, it's about coming of age through light-hearted humor, self-love, heartache, and rediscovery. To read coffee poems, one must read between the lines because this book is a metaphor for coming-of-age emotions masked in coffee and occasionally sugar and cream.

By the end of the book, I hope my readers will feel that coffee is more than a drink; in this case, it's the way I've felt, metaphorically, and I, too, hope they can relate to my coming-of-age prose and poetry.