Apr 11, 2019 | A Day In My Life
Something strange is happening in the Enchanted Village. The strangeness started before the murder of Leyna Noble, co-owner of Divinitea tea shoppe—her death wasn’t so much odd as senseless and tragic. It’s not even unusual that Leyna was a witch, because around this...
Apr 10, 2019 | A Day In My Life
It’s Halloween! Yayyyyyyyyy. I love Halloween. I always loved Scottish Halloween: dooking for apples in a tub of water on the floor; dressing up as ghosts and witches; gorging on peanuts. But now I get American Halloween! No more picking apples out of water with your...
Apr 9, 2019 | A Day In My Life
Hello! My name is Kate Hamilton—young widow, mother of two college-age children, and fine antiques dealer and appraiser. You can usually find me in my shop in the historic district of Jackson Falls, Ohio. Antiques at the Falls specializes in fine objects from the...
Apr 6, 2019 | A Day In My Life
“Hi, I’m Lily Matsuo. I’m so happy we were asked to do this today! I get very excited about . . . well, about everything! Charlee says the exclamation mark is my spirit animal! A while back, you met Charlee, I mean, Charlemagne Russo here. . . . . ....
Apr 3, 2019 | A Day In My Life
I reined the appaloosa in ending our exhilarating gallop on the beach. The Pacific Ocean sprayed us with salt water as I turned toward a path among the towering redwood trees of northern California. I stopped to let Nezi get a drink from a creek and stroked his neck,...
Mar 30, 2019 | A Day In My Life
What if you discovered that your lively new friend wasn’t? Alive, I mean. That’s what happened to me when I moved into my retail space at Shops on Main in beautiful, history-rich Abingdon, Virginia. Let me back up—I’d been looking for a job since graduating college,...
