Mar 25, 2016 | A Day In My Life
Thump. I groan and bury my head under my pillow. Thump. Can my dad be any louder in the morning? Thump. No, he can’t. Thump. I look at the clock and notice the time is nearly 7:30. Drat! I fly out of bed and run to the bathroom. I promised to walk Jenny, the daughter...
Mar 24, 2016 | A Day In My Life
There goes that stupid woodpecker again. This is the third morning this week that he’s woken me up at the crack of dawn with his incessant hammering against the logs of the bedroom wall. Sure, there are likely tasty bugs hiding out in the wood, but as that lump of a...
Mar 23, 2016 | A Day In My Life
My steps echoed hollowly as I climbed the wooden staircase up to the SCR and knocked on the heavy oak door. There was no answer. I pushed it open slowly. The room was empty, a fire burning down to the embers in the grate. I saw my pink pashmina almost instantly. It...
Mar 22, 2016 | A Day In My Life
“Destination wedding planner? What’s that?” That’s one reaction I get when I tell people what I do for a living. Of course, I don’t hear it nearly as often as I used to, now that turning weddings into big group vacations is all the rage....
Mar 21, 2016 | A Day In My Life
They say behind every strong woman, there’s a strong man. That’s so not true. If you really want to know what’s behind a strong woman, ask her cat. Hayden Kent belongs to me. She thinks it’s the other way around. I let her believe the fantasy. My name is Tiger Cat. At...
Mar 19, 2016 | A Day In My Life
Shocked awake I sat up in bed. A millisecond ago I had been dreaming about flying. The real world crashed that dream in the form of a high-pitched staccato of beeps. As a volunteer firefighter, my pager was always close. Stealing a glance at the clock I caught the...
