Mar 3, 2021 | A Day In My Life
Occupation: proprietor of the Indigo Tea Shop It’s the week before Halloween and Drayton Conneley (my tea sommelier) and I are attending the grand opening of a “literary and historically themed” haunted house. It’s in a dilapidated old Victorian mansion known as the...
Mar 2, 2021 | A Day In My Life
My name is Kari Stuart, and my life now is very different from the days not so long ago when I worked as a waitress in the Lakeview Diner and tried to figure out who I wanted to be when I grew up. (Okay, I was already twenty-nine, but you know what I mean.) Then I...
Mar 1, 2021 | A Day In My Life
Gap year. . . weird expression, right? I’m eighteen. At the end of high school I decided to take a year before going to college and my mom freaks out, right? She’s like ‘you’ll never go to college if you take a year off’, and I’m like ‘Mom, chill. . . I got this.’ But...
Feb 26, 2021 | A Day In My Life
It’s 1957 and each day is a new adventure. Diego, my grey and brown tabby cat, wakes me by sitting on my chest and staring at me with round smoky-green eyes. He places both paws on my chin and if I’m slow to stir, he’ll swat my nose. Diego thinks the sun in Santa...
Feb 24, 2021 | A Day In My Life
As a former Wall Street investment banker, I used to joke that the worst financial decision I’d ever made was my impulse purchase of a chubby, fluffy, and utterly adorable Newfoundland puppy I named Wellington. Newfies aren’t exactly built for New York City penthouse...
Feb 23, 2021 | A Day In My Life
When I lived in L.A., I was up at four a.m. and went to the gym inside my high rise apartment building. Worked out, grabbed a juice cleanse from my fridge while picking out the sleek and sophisticated outfit that I was going to wear that day, and fed my pug...
