Jun 13, 2017 | A Day In My Life
My name is Liv McKay, the owner and only full-time employee of Liv 4 Fun, which may not be the biggest party-planning business in Tennessee, but I believe we hold the record for the most corpses turning up uninvited. I’ve had dead bodies show up at two different...
Jun 12, 2017 | A Day In My Life
When I was a little girl, I dreamed of being a movie star like Loretta Young, Ava Gardner, and Rita Hayworth. Oh, sure—my girlfriends were into Star Wars, styling their hair to look like cinnamon buns and ogling Han Solo, but not me. I wanted to wear silk gowns, fur...
Jun 10, 2017 | A Day In My Life
Have you ever been moving along through life, feeling like everything is going great, when, all of a sudden—Bam!—all hell seems to break loose? Yeah, I figured you probably have. . . It’s not fun, is it? In a matter of days (actually, let’s make that hours), I found a...
Jun 9, 2017 | A Day In My Life
Anyone who loves good food and enjoys cooking it has had the fantasy–owning their own restaurant. We picture ourselves greeting loyal customers and their friends (because of course all those loyal customers have talked us up to everyone they know). We imagine...
Jun 8, 2017 | A Day In My Life
My mother likes to say she was born singing. But me? Maybe I was, maybe I wasn’t. The only people who know haven’t seen me since I was born, in China, twenty-two years ago. By the time my parents got me and brought me to this country, I hadn’t spoken a word in months....
Jun 7, 2017 | A Day In My Life
I’m in the habit of looking at life through a good news/bad news window. For example, a restaurant might serve the best food I’ve ever eaten – that’s good news. They might also be the most expensive place I’ve ever eaten – that’s the bad news. A friend might have a...
