CHAPTER 53

Multiple Locations

When I first started the business, it was in my home office. Six months later, I moved into a very small office on the second floor of a multipurpose building on Main Street in Cortland. On the main floor was a coffee shop, the Blue Frog. It was a “crunchy granola” coffee shop with organic coffee and guitar players on the weekends. Tapestries hung from the corners, and it looked like it had been awkwardly transplanted into this old building that had in the 1950s served as the home to a very large hardware store.

Across from the Blue Frog was a Subway restaurant. The smell from the Subway permeated the building every morning. By noon, it was mixed with the smell of hair perms from Connie’s, the hair salon perched ...

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