Jun 24, 2016 | A Day In My Life
Five p.m. in the newsroom and I am in the zone. A blast of static crackles from the scanner above my desk. “Shots fired on the two-hundred block of Rosa Parks Boulevard,” the female 911 dispatcher calls out in a staccato monotone. I turn back to my story and listen...
Jun 23, 2016 | A Day In My Life
Hi there, I’m Savannah Webb, owner of Webb’s Glass Shop on Central Avenue in St. Petersburg, Florida. I’m so exited about our new class that begins at the start of summer – typically a very slow season here in the Grand Central District. It’s slow because most of our...
Jun 22, 2016 | A Day In My Life
Life in Ashland, Oregon is idyllic, picturesque, and charming thanks to our town’s Shakespearean-inspired shops and restaurants, our lush parks, gorgeous rivers, and snow-capped mountains. Not to mention our warm and welcoming community. At our bakeshop, Torte,...
Jun 21, 2016 | A Day In My Life
People always want to know what it’s like to have a cool mom. Not one of those, I’m trying to be a cool mom because I’m really not cool but I want everyone to think I am type of moms. No, I have an actual cool mom. The sort a teenage girl likes to hang out with and...
Jun 20, 2016 | A Day In My Life
I was in a snit. To begin, with, August sucked. By then Phoenix had seen more than three months of over-100-degree days. Electricity bills were the highest of the whole year, even if you kept your ancient air conditioner at eighty-five degrees. It was too hot to take...
Jun 18, 2016 | A Day In My Life
My name is Lexi Jakobson and I’m nineteen years old and I live on Black Hammock which is a barrier island south of the Florida-Georgia border. Don’t believe what they say about me. I have been off the island. To go to high school when I went. And church when Walter...
