by sinamon | Dec 28, 2018 | Stories
By the middle of December the shop had settled into something we had not seen before: a normal day. Two months of lines down Walcott Street, the kind I wrote about after opening, had softened into a steady trickle. Regulars still came, and the mural still stopped...
by sinamon | Nov 10, 2018 | Stories
Two weeks after we opened the doors on Walcott Street, I finally sat down and looked through the photos on my phone. They only go back a few months, but they already feel like they belong to another shop. People ask what this place was before it was Sinamon, and the...
by sinamon | Oct 25, 2018 | Stories
Before any of this, I was a physicist and an engineer. My days were equations and tolerances and the quiet satisfaction of a problem that finally closes. Then one afternoon at the office, the whole future arrived as a smell. Someone nearby had coffee going and...