Champagne and M&Ms: The Speaker’s Life

I woke up to a text message that put me in a bad mood.

I woke up to a text message that put me in a bad mood.

My mood worsened when I climbed out of a second-rate hotel bed; I found only decaf packets in the coffee machine.

After silently cursing out whoever forgot to supply my early-morning caffeine fix, I threw open the blinds to the unfamiliar landscape of whatever Podunk town they had put me in.

Driven by …