^{Shyness is nice, but Shyness can stop you}

^{From doing all the things in life}

^{that you'd like to.}

When I met her, she asked me what I was looking at:     

          "Oh, not much,  just the distance"  

It was a true statement, but later she told me she thought I made it up.  I made up a lot of stories back then,  but that was not one of them.  Years later I wish I had come up with something less clever.  It is likely she would not have been as interested with a generic statement, but I was fresh out.  

Eventually we grew tired of each other and she said she was going to head West.  I tried not to laugh, but she caught me smiling.  We were living near Seattle,  the only thing west was the ocean.  

"Yes, beans, because I am coffee snob, also I am also a realist who trusts the science."
—me

"Coffee snob(noun): [One who has] a true epicurean appreciation for the fine art of all things coffee. This is far and above the myraid [sic] of lemmings who ritually congregate at the local Starbucks, trying like hell to appear hip and trendy."
—

American lawyer, politician, racist, and the second-worst Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (1777-1864). Taney was born in Calvert County, Maryland to a wealthy family of slavers running a tobacco plantation. His older brother was going to inherit the family plantation, and his father encouraged him to study law. He was sent to Dickinson College at the age of 15; after graduating in 1796, he studied law under Judge Jeremiah Townley Chase in