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02/12/2006
The Editor's Mug - January/February 2006
After years of discussion and contemplation, here it is—our first downloadable (and for all intents and purposes,
printable) version of The Coffee Press Journal! A historical day, to be sure!
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
Being our first ever foray into a downloadable/printable version of our online magazine—www.coffeepressjournal.com—we’d sure like your opinion on how things look, the flow and arrangement of those works we’re publishing this month, etc. What do you think you’d like to see added to our magazine? Something you think we should leave out? Your input is invaluable, and we thank you in advance for it!
FREE CONTENT
In addition to this new way of viewing our humble magazine, we will also begin offering a few pages of each month’s issue FOR FREE to website visitors who might like to see what it’s like before purchasing a subscription.
NEW YEAR’S PRICING
One more way we’d like to thank those who’ve made us who we are over these years is to lower the price of our subscriptions. Our new yearly price will be $9.95 USD per year (six bimonthly issues).
It gets better, though! From now till February 15th, 2006, subscriptions are only $6.95! Give a gift subscription to a friend, or simply renew your current subscription! For every three friends you get to subscribe to The Coffee Press Journal, we’ll give you a one year’s subscription FOR FREE!
We hope for big things in 2006, and you are a part of it! Thank you once again for your support and encouragement.
Sincerely,
=jb=
James M. Brown, Editor
The Coffee Press Journal
editor@coffeepressjournal.com
http://www.CoffeePressJournal.com
Posted by =jb= at 02/12/2006 5:34:40pm
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The Editor's Mug - November/December 2005
As Always, Thanks
This is the time of year when our calendars remind us to be thankful.
I am thankful for the calendar's reminder—unfortunately—because
if not for it, I might forget.
I am very thankful for a loving, supporting wife. She is everything
to me. Sometimes less appreciated and more taken for granted, yet she
continues to love me and our girls throughout the year. She is an amazing
woman.
I am very thankful for our girls, who bring light and love and that
innocence that you wish they sold at the corner market...if only it
could be bottled. I've always said this: they are what has been redeeming
about this life of mine. I love them both with more love than I knew
could exist in this aging body with sometimes-stony heart.
I am very thankful for my extended family, my folks and my in-laws.
There is a lot of love and support in our siblings and nieces and nephews.
Good or bad, we are ultimately there for each other.
I am very thankful for those who are still here, and make me a better
person because of their love, friendship, multi-faceted support, and
more. For starters, thank you to Michelle & Brett, Andrew &
Shelly, and Toby & Heather in this time, and Kaj & Janelle,
Matt, Tom, Aaron & Sarah, and the rest of our family in our recent-past.
I am very thankful for those who are no longer here ("no longer
tethered by the earthly coil", as I've heard) and who are in a
much better place. Specifically, I miss you Grandma, Olivia, and Mrs.
Bailey, with glass raised.
I am very thankful for my "job"...that is, that I can be
a work-at-home/stay-at-home father to two wonderful girls (see thanks
above). I'm thankful that I have an income-producing job when so many
do not. I'm thankful that I do something I love.
I am very thankful for my hobby (this magazine) and that it incorporates
my job and my love for writing. I'm thankful that so many over the years
have decided to send written word my way that I may also enjoy their
love for writing and to then share those with the world. My blessings,
multiplied. Thank you, thank you, thank you. May we endeavor to be that
for you as we continue to do this little thing called The Coffee Press
Journal.
Cheers!
Posted by =jb= at 02/12/2006 5:31:56pm
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The Editor's Mug - September/October 2005
It's My Move
It's happening again.
The call of the waves, wind and sand...it's calling me.
Why, of all people, would it bother to single me out?
You know, there are times I've uttered a weird line or two out of my
mental casing that, in retrospect, could have left unuttered. This current
thought, though, is intriguing...
It is like my soul has an antenna set to receive signals from just
this one place—the ocean beaches. I look up, westward, toward the
sunsetting sky, toward Mary's Peak and the beautiful Coast Range, past
the few clouds that dare block blue from being seen.
Out there, somewhere, is my......
My what? My inspiration? Come on, I tell myself, it can't be that syrupy
of an answer.
Still, it calls.
It's funny, because I often think of the sky as my canvas, though I
"paint" with words. And the perfect canvas is over ocean waves,
in my opinion.
So, maybe it's not that sea or surf or inspiration is calling to me,
but rather my soul-compass knows where to look and directs my eyes in
the same direction.
Once I'm there...sometimes it's enough to soak in the salt air, the
breeze, the birds, the sand...I can taste the salt in the air even now...feel
the sand between my toes as I walk to that place that inspiration is
certain to strike me like a bolt of lightning being singled out for
me.
Will I answer this call? I am taken away by menial yet essential tasks
in my daily life. Business, family, friends, dishes, yardwork...all
tug for my time. Something gets pushed aside almost daily. Will I ignore
the call yet again?
It's my move...
Posted by =jb= at 02/12/2006 5:21:47pm
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02/12/2006
The Editor's Mug - August 2005
There was no issue this month, thus, no article. (This is entered more for posterity than for anything.)
Posted by =jb= at 02/12/2006 5:20:20pm
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