Mar 13, 2017 | A Day In My Life
“Don’t you?” I have to remember to stop saying that. Jayne says it annoys people when I point out things they’ve overlooked. I think that if people don’t bother to observe the things around them, then they shouldn’t fault me for doing so. But, I’ll try to behave in...
Mar 11, 2017 | A Day In My Life
“More coffee, Alvaro?” It’s the skinny one, Ted Kuhl, the one who looks like a stovepipe with hair and walks around with a chip the size of Winsome. He sits at the café’s long copper-topped table, a tumble of papers in front of him. I watch him, seeing the way he...
Mar 10, 2017 | A Day In My Life
We were supposed to go back to normal here at Shamrock Manor after a wedding guest found himself upside down over a balcony but as my mother likes to say “You plan, God laughs.” Why, oh why, did I have to find that dead groom in the ladies room after our...
Mar 9, 2017 | A Day In My Life
charter member, The League of Literary Ladies Gotcha, didn’t I? I said “island life” and you immediately pictured what a day in my island life is all about: tropical breezes, lazy hours in the hammock, drinks festooned with tiny umbrellas. Umm . . . I’ve got new for...
Mar 8, 2017 | A Day In My Life
As a tea shop owner, I get invited to a lot of special event teas. But the craziest one I’ve even attended was a “rat tea” held at a very fancy mansion in Charleston’s ultra luxe historic district. Yes, that’s right, a rat tea. I’m talking about proper waiters...
Mar 7, 2017 | A Day In My Life
You know that moment when someone you care about is struggling with something and you want to do anything you can think of to help out? Yeah, that was me the other day when I stopped by Jay Morgan’s office. For those of you who haven’t met Jay, he’s a super cute...
