Jul 5, 2016 | A Day In My Life
Hi everyone. You’ve caught me just in time. I’m almost out the door going to a client meeting. I’m planning a 50th reunion for the 1967 graduating class of Madison High School, to take place next August. That’s what I do – plan events. I work for Make It Happen and my...
Jul 4, 2016 | A Day In My Life
The scenery is always compelling in Blue Lake. My employer, Camilla Graham, calls it “relentlessly beautiful,” and she’s right; it’s the sort of town that a person would be reluctant to leave because you just don’t walk away from what seems like paradise. Initially I...
Jul 2, 2016 | A Day In My Life
One side benefit from being a nun is you get used to name changes. I was born Giulia Falcone, then I became Sister Mary Regina Coelis for ten years. When I jumped the wall (yes, there really was a wall, but I walked out the front door) I was Giulia Falcone again. Now...
Jul 1, 2016 | A Day In My Life
My name is Penelope Sutherland and I’m a chef who works behind the scenes on movie sets. My job is to keep the cast and crew fed while the crew films on location, wherever that location might be. Sometimes we get to borrow a well appointed restaurant kitchen...
Jun 30, 2016 | A Day In My Life
A bead of sweat rolled around my brow and into my eye as I slathered Kelly green paint on the wood trim around the front window of the Leprechaun, my father’s Northeast Minneapolis bar. Winter in Minnesota wasn’t the best time to paint any exterior surface, but thanks...
Jun 29, 2016 | A Day In My Life
Daily Journal for Mrs. Clempton’s class, 4th grade: My name is Livvy Avery. I’m nine years old and my teacher assigned us to write in our daily journal what we did during Spring Break. I just got back from a trip to a Georgia barrier island for my aunt’s wedding. Aunt...
