Author: Heather L. Cleary

• Book Pre-Sale Eve!

  Here I sit on the precipice of a dream realized. A vulnerable moment when my hard work and creativity meld into a book. My Book. My Memoir. It feels surreal,…

• Let’s Do Lunch: Week 9

  Is the Motown music queued up? Yes? Good. My lunch this week is not the only highlight. It was what led up to the lunch that still makes me smile.…

  

• Let’s Do Lunch: Week 3

  My lunch for this week was with someone I met through a chance encounter. Her eldest daughter was new to the swim team. One of the coaches said she hoped…

  

• Let’s Do Lunch: Week 1

  When I started thinking about beginning my new series of lunch blogs, it wasn’t very hard to select this person. She and I are twins in a very unique and…

  

• Let’s Do Lunch: The Pilot

  Life changes. Things happen. Sometimes you have to step back and be okay with it all being beyond your control. As I mentioned in the epilogue, I cried hard and…

  

• Coffee Break: Week 51

  Terra and I first became friends through the local Toastmasters Club that held meetings at Starbucks. Not only was it a chance to learn to speak in front of others,…

  

• Coffee Break: Week 33

  My favorite daily comic strip is Pearls Before Swine. Anyone who knows me, knows that I obsessively laugh at the witty puns and general humor of the strip. Occasionally, Stephan…

  

• Coffee Break: Week 27

  This week’s lunch was with the woman I consider my Solstice Sister. I met Taffy in my early years at Starbucks. Unfortunately, she lost her job during the 2008 layoffs. Over…

  

• Music Trip: Cleveland

  I finally made it! I made it to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio. This felt like the perfect culmination of all my previous music trips.…

  

• Music Trip: Austin

  The final stop on this 5 city music journey, Austin, Texas. Although I knew Austin was a great city for live music, I had no idea what that truly meant.…