Jun 6, 2025 | A Day In My Life
I’m sipping coffee, basking in the quiet before my girls wake up. I got up before my five-thirty alarm, walked the dog, and ate protein for breakfast. I’m invincible. “Mooom!” The scream of my fifteen-year-old daughter Anabel is guttural. Zipper, our goldendoodle,...
Jun 5, 2025 | A Day In My Life
Hi. My name is Norah McCarthy, and I own the most exclusive apartment building in Peerless Point, Florida. I’m not being a snob. It’s true. My apartment building, the Florodora, is more than a hundred years old, the first in this south Florida beach town between Fort...
Jun 4, 2025 | A Day In My Life
There you are! Thanks so much for waiting! I hope I didn’t keep you too long at the counter. Goodness, we’re usually better than this. My niece, Roxy, is off handling whatever new issue we have going here, so I’ll be taking care of you and getting you to your room at...
Jun 3, 2025 | A Day In My Life
1994 I usually set my clock radio to 6 a.m., so I make sure to get 15 minutes to hit “snooze” so the alarm doesn’t think he won. But this morning, just as I open my eye ready to smack that button, my phone rings. “Tonya get the paper!” my mother is saying. “Girl,...
Jun 2, 2025 | A Day In My Life
I’ll start by saying that I never meant to end up running a bookshop well into my seventies. I was supposed to be retired, thank you very much. Feet up, telly on, maybe a cheeky whisky if the weather called for it (and it usually does). Instead, I’m the glue holding...
May 30, 2025 | A Day In My Life
Hello there, my name is Sugar. Okay it’s really Rosetta Sugarbaker Calloway but everyone calls me Sugar. I love St. Ignatius, the town where I live. I’m not originally from the Midwest and I’d grown up in cities, but I found that small town life was perfect for me. I...
