Jun 23, 2017 | A Day In My Life
When I found myself working with Madam Petalungra, world famous medium, in the cosmopolitan Louisiana city of New Orleans, I discovered a world hidden to most people. And I began to realize many things about my chosen line of work. The first is that I have no real...
Jun 22, 2017 | A Day In My Life
Who doesn’t love puppies? Certainly not me. So when I was asked to serve as a puppy wrangler at a charity event modeled after the famous Puppy Bowl, I couldn’t say yes fast enough. My name is Melanie Travis, and aside from being a wife, mother of two sons, and a...
Jun 21, 2017 | A Day In My Life
Age 16 in 1984 I’m pretty sure every parent on the face of earth says it just once: “You’re so lucky; these are the best days of your life! Enjoy them!” Being a teenager. . . yeah, it’s a bucket of laughs. So, my life? Right now it consists of school and babysitting...
Jun 20, 2017 | A Day In My Life
If it wasn’t for weird I’d be bored out of my mind. —Christina McMullen, who is rarely bored “You look well,” I said and kept my tone clipped, my wayward hands strictly to myself. I was casually dressed in cutoff jeans and a T-shirt that had seen better days. He...
Jun 19, 2017 | A Day In My Life
Castle San Pietro is asleep. It wasn’t long ago that nights and mornings ran together, blurred lines on an Italian canvas, but since Damien’s death, the party has died. Now we sit around in the evening, quarreling about movie sets and brands of vodka until Daddy goes...
