Coffee and a Conversation

As Told Over Brunch is a home for intelligent discourse from the twenty-something perspective - so the stuff you gossip about over mimosas on Sunday morning or over takeout on your friend's couch when happy hour ends too early. We love chatting about our lives, whether it be the relationships we’re building (or destroying), lessons we've learned at work, struggles at school, growing pains we've felt, or even the food we’re talking over.

A Parable of Missed Connections

November 14, 2017 by Cazey Williams in Cazey's Column, Life In Your 20's, life lessons

A while before, a friend told me about "Margo" and suggested we might make a good pair. I knew her name through a handful of other friends, and I gathered my friend had also made the same suggestion to Margo. At some point I added her on Facebook. That is how all great millennial love stories begin - that, or a swipe right.

The relationship progressed with Facebook likes, comments back and forth on mutual friends' posts, and at another point we exchanged numbers when she discovered I was visiting her city soon. We made plans to grab coffee that turned into gelato. Of course, I left Richmond late (by two hours), so I had to move our meeting back. I also had to stop at my friend's before, where I was staying that night, to drop off my luggage.

Lover's Revenge

February 27, 2017 by Cazey Williams in Cazey's Column, Humor, Life In Your 20's, life lessons

In the last two and a half years, I have gone on approximately ten dates with a margin of error of two. Meanwhile, there are 214,000 people in Richmond. Statistically speaking, the odds that I would run into one of these people ever again is less than 0.01%. That may be a little biased since the people I would go on a date with probably have hobbies that overlap with mine, but you get the point.

Now I have run into people who I have matched with on a dating app before. But that’s a different probability game. There’s a lot more of those. I recklessly swipe right. I don’t recklessly show up to dates because that’s expensive. But only twice can I recount running into someone who I matched with, but we never met. Of course, I’m not great with faces, so this might happen more frequently than I recognize.