May 18, 2019 | A Day In My Life
My name is Laura Harrison. I’m a former Manhattan fashion designer. I set aside my career and moved to Indonesia with my banker husband Jack to save my marriage. I expected to live in a romantic tropical hideaway like something out of a Bogart movie. Instead I walked...
May 17, 2019 | A Day In My Life
Sunflower County, in the Mississippi Delta where I’m sheriff, is normally quiet, with limited crime. The county seat is Zinnia, and it’s a sleepy little Delta town with a hopping blues scene, the best little café in the Southeast, and a community of people who,...
May 16, 2019 | A Day In My Life
I remember how excited I always was as a kid when the county fair approached. Back then, I didn’t have my own horse. My 4-H leader loaned me one to use for my project animal. I won a lot of ribbons, although very few were blue. It didn’t matter. The fair was more...
May 14, 2019 | A Day In My Life
Place of Business: Swans Nest Inn Do teacups have a soul? I like to think so. Before I bought the wreck of a house that has now become Swans Nest Inn, my BFF, Tori Cannon, gifted me with a number of teacups her late grandmother had collected. They were covered in dust...
May 13, 2019 | A Day In My Life
My name is Micki Demetrius. I’m a retired English teacher from an eastern private school and I now live in the central Florida town of Serendipity Springs. I’m divorced. Have been for several years. My ex, Ignatius, who goes by the name Iggy, is a charming man who...
May 11, 2019 | A Day In My Life
As the owner of Fortune’s Cove Books, I have a weakness for crime fiction and the means to indulge it. But I didn’t expect to start my day by finding a corpse. Hi. I’m Kate Rowan. Normally, I would have been in the bookstore already, working on my display of summer...