Coffee Nerves To Go

By Jim Hagarty
2017

Free small coffees at our local McDonald’s all week this week. Guess where I have been spending my time. Fortunately, the takeout window is open 24 hours a day as that is also the number of hours in a day I am awake this week. It’s nice when things coincide like that. I don’t know if I am suffering from coffee nerves yet, but I was out in my backyard at 4 a.m. today screaming at the moon for making too much noise, so maybe.

Author: Jim Hagarty

I am a 72-year-old retired journalist, busy recovering from a lifelong career as an unretired journalist. This year marks a half century of my scratching out little fables about life. My interests include genealogy, humour and music. I live in a little blue shack in Canada and spend most of my time trying to stay out of trouble. I am not that good at it. I also spent years teaching journalism. Poor state of journalism today: My fault. I have a family I don't deserve, a dog that adores me, and two cars the junk yard refuses to accept. My prized possessions include my old guitar and a razor my Dad gave me when I was 14 and which I still use when I bother to shave. Oh, and my great-great-grandfather's blackthorn stick he brought from Ireland in the 1850s. I have only one opinion but it is a good one: People take too many showers.