Oct 26, 2021 | A Day In My Life
Hi, folks. I’m Misty Murphy, the innkeeper of the Mountaintop Lodge in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. I bought the lodge just recently, on the same day I turned fifty and sent the youngest of my two children off to college at the University of...
Oct 22, 2021 | A Day In My Life
My typical workday starts when I creep onto campus under the cover of darkness just to get a thing or two done before the daily whirlwind kicks in. But that doesn’t stop the interlopers from interrupting my first sip of coffee from the office pot. Hot, half and half,...
Oct 21, 2021 | A Day In My Life
Peter Dumas was standing in the guest conference room staring out the window at the Drake Hotel entrance, catacorner from the Knickerbocker. He was wearing jeans. Pressed jeans. Holey jeans, with tattered tears and well-worn knees. On his feet? Purple cowboy boots...
Oct 20, 2021 | A Day In My Life
How to describe a day in my life? Well, I guess I’ve come full circle in some ways. I’m Charlotte Jones, known to everyone as Charlie. I was born in the South West of England and had a happy childhood with my parents and my sister Suzanne – she’s younger than me but,...
Oct 19, 2021 | A Day In My Life
Occupation: Owner of the Fern Valley Camping Resort Hi, all. I’m Jules Keene, and I own the Fern Valley Camping Resort. About three years ago, I returned home to the Blue Ridge Mountains to the campground my parents bought in the 1970s. After my divorce from the...
Oct 14, 2021 | A Day In My Life
I’m Bridget Kelly. Bridey, like I’m to be married but I’m not. Bridey is what my mum and my sisters and brother called me, and here I’ve gone and let the little ones here and everyone else call me that again. I don’t have the Blitz spirit. Not the way some do,...
