It's just a wonderful place to gather and have a cup of coffee and talk about things that are difficult to talk about with people who just don't know what you're going through.
Meetings or correspondence may be consistent (a weekly coffee meeting to talk shop) and frequent (an ongoing email dialogue about a variety of issues).
Austin's coffee shops are reverberating with talk of stock options.
"To some people, driving is the distraction: They want to comb their hair, they want to drink their coffee, they want to talk on their cell phones, " says GM's Burns.
An Alpha evening begins with a meal, followed by a talk (or a Holy Trinity Brompton video of the talk), coffee and discussion in small groups, divided by age and carefully selected.
But wait at the coffee shops after dark to talk to some of Muscat's bloggers and tweeters and a different picture emerges, of tell-tale clicks on the line during phone conversations, of unusual activity on Facebook pages.
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Talk at the local coffee shop is often about the freshly minted millionaires and their newly built trophy homes.
In Philippi, less than an hour's drive from Sago, members of the Malcolm family sat down on Friday morning over coffee at the Medallion Restaurant to talk about their community and their lives with a mix of resolve and holding back tears.
Small talk before meetings start, coffee breaks, and running into people into the halls all provide a litany of unscripted, unorchestrated interactions that make it difficult for people to package themselves.
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On Saturday, as life returned to normal, local bars and coffee shops in Boston were abuzz with talk more reflective of the nature of the attacks than the specific ways in which the teenager had initially evaded authorities.
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Its coffee bars burble over with smart kids who talk and breathe the web.
Once we grab a coffee, we usually just walk around the block while we talk.
The centre will also house a coffee bar and kitchen and young people will be able to talk to staff for advice on careers, housing and other topics of interest.
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Coffee houses were a new institution in which men met together to talk, listen to poets and play games like chess and backgammon.
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In the waiting room on the executive floor, the head of risk from a subsidiary in a neighbouring country is pouring himself a coffee, having driven for an hour from his own office to talk about a new computer system.
The two often met at a coffee shop on Lexington Avenue in the years before Bernard Madoff's arrest to talk about markets and technology.
Our small home encourages us to go outside and talk to the neighbors, go on hikes and meet people, go to coffee shops and restaurants, the library, the gym etc.
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