May 4, 2020 | A Day In My Life
I’ve spent my whole life on an island thirty miles off the East Coast, the tail-end of a glacial moraine left behind by the last Ice Age. Nantucket is roughly fifteen miles long and maybe five miles wide; lashed by nor-easters in winter, when all sound except the...
May 2, 2020 | A Day In My Life
Hi, I’m Bailey. Full name — Bailey Bird Martinez. I married my sweet husband, Tito, a short while ago at a local vineyard and, presto, a few months later, I became pregnant. Now we have an adorable little girl, Brianna. She looks like me with short spiky hair and big...
Apr 25, 2020 | A Day In My Life
Hey! I’m Tory Benning, a landscape architect based in Santa Sofia, California, a small coastal town about twelve miles north of Santa Barbara. I grew up here and have lived in Santa Sofia most of my life, except when I went to college and grad school at USC in...
Apr 24, 2020 | A Day In My Life
My mother never worked a day in her life and my younger sister’s “job” is to be the most beautiful debutante in all Manhattan, but it’s 1911 and I want to do something interesting and productive with my days. That’s why at 9 a.m. I head for the Moonrise Bookshop, the...
Apr 22, 2020 | A Day In My Life
Pixie, a judgmental marmalade cat that Mabel Skinner had been guilted into adopting was sitting like a loaf of bread on the corner of the over-sized kitchen table that used to get used regularly by the many friends of Mabel’s aunt. But now Aunt Peggy had died,...
Apr 21, 2020 | A Day In My Life
Occupation: Caterer My earliest memories are of cooking with my grandmother. Back in those days I was too short too see over the counter, so Grandy had a stepping stool just for me. We sifted and stirred and iced cookies to our hearts content. The kitchen became my...
