Jun 16, 2022 | A Day In My Life
A black floppy hat, big enough to hide my face. A long-sleeved black T-shirt, and a black skirt that goes down to my ankles. Black sandals. Black oversized sunglasses to hide my red eyes and any tears. A black cat on my shoulders. I guess we’re set to go. Let me...
Jun 15, 2022 | A Day In My Life
I’m Rarity Cole. I own The Next Chapter, an independent bookstore on Main Street in Sedona, Arizona. I’m also a breast cancer survivor. I used to be on the career ladder for a St. Louis based company as a marketer. Then one bad mammogram changed my life and the way I...
Jun 10, 2022 | A Day In My Life
Hello, Edna Harridan here. I’m Lieutenant Colonel Tessa Treslow’s favorite aunt and nowadays, her roommate. She’s busy under a truck at the moment, so I’m here to tell you about what our days are like. We live in an old farmhouse out in the sticks of Idaho. Well, the...
Jun 9, 2022 | A Day In My Life
When I moved back to my small hometown of Apple Grove, I planned a return to the middle of my family as the youngest sibling with two older brothers in a place where I had enjoyed a nurturing childhood. I left the Chicago art scene as an abysmal failure, unable to...
Jun 8, 2022 | A Day In My Life
Do you have a vintage cookbook you love? Maybe one from decades ago, like the 1960s or 1950s or even earlier? A cookbook handed down from your grandmother to your mother to you? And can you sell it to me? Argh, I’m sorry! That was incredibly rude. I have a tendency to...
Jun 7, 2022 | A Day In My Life
June 1999, Phoenix, Arizona My father’s request couldn’t have come at a worse time. He called me one morning to say his B24, the flying Liberator he had jumped out of during the Second World War, had been located. I had heard the story since I’d been a little girl, so...
