Last weekend, I tried to go back to the old-fashioned stove to make pinto beans, which I was then going to transform into refried beans, but I forgot about the beans, went out for a coffee, stopped to talk to a neighbor and came back to find black smoke funneling through my apartment.
Spend time in groups within your regular social circles, whether in small groups at church, community service organizations, or a coffee shop you stop at often.
Case in point, this is a picture I snapped during a recent coffee stop at Cup in the Glen Park area of San Francisco.
Make a quick coffee stop at Cafe Pamenar, which also doubles as a live music venue at night – it's not far to Nathan Phillips Square, in the centre of the city.
Make sure to visit Möllevångstorget, a colourful quarter of food stalls and cafes, or enjoy a 'fika' (coffee stop) in Lilla Torg, the city's medieval square, before bedding down at the grand Mayfair Hotel Tunneln for the night.
For an afternoon coffee, stop at the ZA, where your order will literally zoom to you on an electronic line.
Rave reviews by The New York Times, Garden & Gun, Southern Living and other publications turned this three-chef bakery into a small town coffee stop with a big online presence, sending out hundreds of orders nationwide each month.
They did it with enormous insouciance, as if this were no more than a coffee shop they were stopping into for a snack.
In New York people moved cautiously, too -- police presence swelled on street corners and when a loud bang sounded outside a coffee shop I'd stopped in people shifted skittishly.
