a poem is a personal, individual experience.

Annie’s signs are community bulletin board, political soapbox, Zen center, pun-of-the-week poster, and awards banquet rolled into one.

That commitment to community impressed me, and made me more committed.”

MOST THIRD places enjoy a location where pedestrian traffic is heavy and many regulars live but minutes away

Once people come into Annie’s, they quickly find that they are our first priority. We want to know our customers. We lean across the counter and ask about vacations and school activities, illness and recoveries, births and deaths.

Essential to informal collective effort is the habit of association, and essential to informal association are places where people may gather freely and frequently and with relative ease.

Whenever you go to a place where people know and like you, you open yourself to others who are there.

we have also sought to engage our customers in experiences they could share with other people.

Also I was looking for something to give the customer outside the exchange of money for merchandise. That exchange wasn’t enough for me; it left me feeling empty I wanted something I could hand over that was extra and free, something that would help the customer slow down and relax.