{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"The Inkwell","description":"Do you love the town you live in or do you long to move somewhere else?  Have you ever thought about why you feel whatever way you do?  I\u2019ve been thinking about that a lot lately.   I\u2019ve lived in Bloomington Indiana for most of the last 25 years and the more people I meet, the more stories build the thread of this town in my mind, the deeper connection I have with this place.  I\u2019ve always seen Bloomington as an oasis.  The college town in beautiful southern Indiana.  People of all colors, shapes, and creeds, living in the conservative Midwest.   As a teenager in the big flat city of Indianapolis, all I wanted was to get out of the Midwest, wanted to go back to San Diego, surf, get a tan.  Instead, after a failed round of the local college, my parents talked me into the college town 50 miles away in the rolling hills of Southern Indiana.  I sort of begrudgingly gave in.   But it didn\u2019t take long to fall in love with Bloomington then and like any good relationship, it\u2019s gotten better with time.   One thing I love about this town is the scattered nods to the big city.  Walking through downtown there\u2019s the bars with 100 year old grease on the walls from 100, upstairs pool halls with the same door guy as 30 years ago, Opera & Ballet.  There\u2019s a whole two block section of town with a restaurant from every nation you can think of.  It\u2019s not hard to get small tastes of the big city in Bloomington.  Just enough some might say.   Our guest on today\u2019s show added to that list when she opened a new Caf\u00e9 and Coffee bar called the Inkwell.  The place is located dead in the heart of town.  Across from the limestone courthouse building in the center square.  The Inkwell is just the right kind of hole in the wall.  It\u2019s a long skinny place like you\u2019d see in Brooklyn.  Old brick walls show the wear of a hundred years and exposed metal heat vents bringing modern comforts through an aged plaster ceiling.  But the interior design is crisp and modern.  It\u2019s understated and quiet.  The food and the coffee do all of the talking.  Tracy Gates had been planning the Inkwell for years.  When a staple caf\u00e9 closed she saw an opening. when she met Wally Wedrago, a local bicycle barista and coffee master, the stars aligned.  It was time to go. We\u2019re glad you joined us!  ","author_name":"Scratch Entrepreneur","author_url":"http:\/\/www.scratchentrepreneur.com","html":"