Oct 25, 2019 | A Day In My Life
Ouch. It’s a small nick, but that’s what I get for not paying attention and letting my mind wander. Working with sharp objects—glass and knives, even X-acto knives—needs attention and this morning my mind was on the body of my neighbor. After my husband, Winston, was...
Oct 24, 2019 | A Day In My Life
Hey, there. Welcome to Port New. I’m Finn Bartusiak, owner of Finn’s Finds – that cute, little antique shop a few doors down from Dough Knots. If you’ve ever stopped by the bakery on your way to the beach, chances are you’ve passed my place. Would you like to come in...
Oct 22, 2019 | A Day In My Life
Until recently, a day in my life would have been the phone ringing when I was halfway down my first cuppa, to say that someone needed a lift, or a loan, or a babysitter, or a reference because of a court date, or a truancy officer, or a cancellation at the pain...
Oct 14, 2019 | A Day In My Life
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! No, not Christmas. . .baseball playoff season! (Even if the Red Sox are probably out of it). I’m Madeline Boucher, daughter of the current owners of the Abington Armadillos baseball team in Massachusetts. I’ve recently started...
Oct 11, 2019 | A Day In My Life
’Tis a fine day to be a pig. Of course, every day is fine day to be a pig, especially a pig who lives at the Renaissance Faire in Sherwood, Tennessee. My people, Mal McClaren and his sister, Elinore, provide me a charming pen with a pool and a slide—and they like to...
Oct 9, 2019 | A Day In My Life
Enid Carmichael here. I am not a busybody and I am not a lush, as some would say. I am an eighty-year-old crusader for safety in our elegant Pacific Heights apartment building where tenants are dying faster than the fog rolls in on a cool San Francisco evening. I am a...