On Cuban coffee and lost love from Key West to Miami… ☕️❤️🔥 my essay “It’s Not Love, It’s Just Coffee” is featured in the current vol. of @driftmag , dedicated to Miami’s coffee culture.
I wrote this piece over two years ago and I’m excited to finally share it w readers of this beautiful magazine, available for order now at driftmag.com & at various stockists around the globe.
While so much of my itinerant life has been a subconscious search for home, I also travel for escape, adventure and pure pleasure. The tension between my desire to shove off on my next adventure and also throw down an anchor that catches has emerged as the enduring paradox of my life. Through the years, though, I’ve come to realize that the fish out of water feeling I first experienced as a little girl in Nashville is actually the state where I feel most alive. It’s in those moments of discombobulation when I’m the most tuned in, the most observant, the most curious, the most open to wonder and exultation. For me, solving the mystery of a place I’ve never been to before is an inquiry into how it fits into the geographic and historic puzzle of our shared humanity.
⚓️ If you haven’t subscribed to Hotel Shayne yet, now would be a good time. My essay, “Why I Travel,” is heading to inboxes serially starting tomorrow morning or you can read it now at @hotelshayne . Links in bio.
Sweetest boy I ever knew 🐾 Cutest dog ever to the very last day 🐒 Rascal Benowitz, best friend, only friend, constant companion ❤️ October 30, 2009 ~ January 1, 2026
