Mar 8, 2021 | A Day In My Life
Being a single parent isn’t easy, especially when The Ex rarely remembers his financial obligations to me and our kids. Which is why I, Cassandra Davenport, recently concluded I needed a better paying job than working as the Arts and Entertainment reporter for our...
Mar 5, 2021 | A Day In My Life
One of the advantages of still living with your parents at the age of thirty-six – don’t get me going on the disadvantages – is that my mum makes me breakfast. I remember, when I was at primary school, being asked to describe a typical breakfast. I began, ‘First you...
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...
