So, just as I was getting used to walking to get my coffee several times a week, I learn that the coffee shop has closed! Talk about too horrible to be fiction, though. the shop closed because…

• the two owners are getting divorced
• one of the owners just had bypass surgery
• the owners’ kid is struggling with “chemical dependency issues”
• and one of the owners is having a difficult bought in the midst of a lifelong struggle with anxiety and depression (couldn’t imagine what might have brought that on!)

Yikes! You can’t make this stuff up. And just when I was feeling sorry for myself that my coffee shop was closing, too. Now I feel rotten for feeling sorry for myself.

Luckily for me (though it doesn’t do too much to alleviate these people’s personal hell), the shop is slated to open again sometime in the next month, maybe even in two weeks if all goes perfectly.