Every town has one, you know the local watering hole where you can find out the latest town gossip or the who's who of who-ville.  A writer's fishing hole of odd, enchanting, and infamous characters.  A nosey body's nook for news.  In my town, a very small town, that place is the local Bagel shop.  I'm no gossip girl, you can ask anyone there.  I'm not a local, I'm what they call "one of them city folk".  I'm a nobody.  You know when someone asks "Whose that?" and they answer "Oh, that's nobody. ... more »

Every town has one, you know the local watering hole where you can find out the latest town gossip or the who's who of who-ville.  A writer's fishing hole of odd, enchanting, and infamous characters.  A nosey body's nook for news.  In my town, a very small town, that place is the local Bagel shop.  I'm no gossip girl, you can ask anyone there.  I'm not a local, I'm what they call "one of them city folk".  I'm a nobody.  You know when someone asks "Whose that?" and they answer "Oh, that's nobody."  Well that's me.   An outsider, a tourist, a virtual wall flower, never noticed as I sketch in my art book, sipping tea, but this nobody has stories to tell.  You'd better watch out the next time your sitting in your local hang out and think nobody is listening.  Less