Coffee at the Kitchen Table: A Mad Men Inspiration by Patricia Ann McNair

From a morning’s journal while in Paris recently. Not about what you might think. Thank you, Chicago Literati, for publishing.

7 Replies to “Coffee at the Kitchen Table: A Mad Men Inspiration by Patricia Ann McNair”

Michael Burke says:

January 27, 2015 at 8:32 am

Excellent!

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1. Patricia Ann McNair says:
  
  January 27, 2015 at 8:54 am
  
  Thank you, Michael Burke. You are a dear.
  
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Lindsay says:

January 27, 2015 at 4:14 pm

Very interesting piece of memoir and reflection… and a whole other world from my own… though I do recall living in Yemen for two years as a small child and we would give all our dirty clothes to a man whose skin was black and whose teeth were a bright and dazzling white and he wore a watch with a shiny bracelet strap. He was fond of us, as we were of him. He brought the clothes back all clean and pressed flat and neat. And one day he offered my dad ten camels for my mum. And dad always after said that he might have traded if Ali had offered eleven camels… but we never believed dad when he said that.

Thanks for sharing this, Patty. Nice piece.

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1. Patricia Ann McNair says:
  
  January 28, 2015 at 10:59 am
  
  Thanks, Lindsay. Yes, I would say quite a different beginning for us. So much so, that when I read your line about the camels, I first thought you meant the cigarette! Thanks for reading and responding, friend.
  
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  1. Lindsay says:
    
    January 28, 2015 at 12:34 pm
    
    Actually, if it had been ten Camel cigarettes, Ali might have had a swift trade; but it was the humped and hairy and spitting teeth kind of camels… a bit more difficult to smuggle through customs back to Britain at the end of our tour there.
David says:

January 27, 2015 at 7:07 pm

A beautiful reflective piece. Thanks

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1. Patricia Ann McNair says:
  
  January 28, 2015 at 10:58 am
  
  Thank you, David, for reading and responding.
  
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