Jul 10, 2015 | A Day In My Life
My name is Ophelia Elizabeth Brice McLennon Honeywell. Y’all can call me Ophie. Most everybody does, although I do like it when handsome young men call me Miss Ophelia. Reminds me of the days when eligible young men were invited to tea at my grandmother’s house to...
Jul 9, 2015 | A Day In My Life
MISS GLORIA: I hate to see my roommate Hayley so worried and sad. I know she’s thinking about Valentine’s Day, wondering whether the man she loves will come through. She imagines that if she just bakes the right cake, he’ll feel how much she cares and then open his...
Jul 8, 2015 | A Day In My Life
“You can’t be serious, Charlotte. You would really buy a boat?” Francine McNamara heard the grandfather clock in the hall chime the Westminster Quarters for the hour and then three bongs. She and Charlotte Reinhardt took tea at a round Crate and Barrel table on the...
Jul 7, 2015 | A Day In My Life
Gossip in my hometown of Cays Mill, Georgia, runs so dang fast that half the town knows what you’ve done before you’ve done it. Which isn’t good news for me, since my misguided youth has given the local tongues a lot to wag about. In fact, I wasn’t back home but half...
Jul 6, 2015 | A Day In My Life
If you’re going to spend the day with me, you’ll have to take the baseboards. I hate cleaning the baseboards and, for some reason, all the women who stay at the Mid-Night Inn are crazy about clean baseboards. But we don’t get that many women here, really. Most of the...
Jul 5, 2015 | A Day In My Life
It’s a little after 5 a.m. and the kitchen is already filled with the rich scent of dark chocolate brownies mingling with the yeasty aroma of whole wheat bread. I’m Sophie and I own Riverbend Café in Kellerton, Michigan. I’m a pastry chef and I couldn’t be more...
