A Day in My Life ~ Blue Bishop by Heather Webber

The warm May day I found a newborn baby girl in the woods near the Buttonwood Tree, a mystical tree that offers advice printed on wafer-thin wooden buttons, had started like any other day in my life—with a hike in the woods, blown there by the hands of an insistent...

A Day in My Life ~ Sydney Riley by Jeannette de Beauvoir

It’s one of those perfect days that you’d been thinking all spring would never arrive. Spring on Cape Cod is a tease: it comes in fits and starts, with brilliant sun on some days in early March. . . but you’re well advised to not put your winter coat away for good...

A Day in My Life ~ Natalie Payne by Lynn Morrison

Hiya, my name is Natalie Payne, but my friends call me Nat. I’m the Head of Ceremonies at the University of Oxford in Oxford, England. My title sounds really fancy, but I’m basically an event planner. I organise lavish galas, formal dinners and important celebrations...

A Day in My Life ~ Magdalen Melmoth by Arlene Kay

People tend to ignore you when you’re old. I know that because at 85 years of age, I’ve seen my caretakers and even some of my friends simply refuse to believe my family heritage. Oh, most are polite about it. They nod and smile in that patronizing way that says be...