Jun 18, 2015 | A Day In My Life
It must have been 90 degrees in the shade, and humid enough that not ten minutes after we’d arrived at the Great Minnesota Get Together, I blew right past sweat-covered into full-fledged swamp ass. If I didn’t love my girlfriend Alex, I’d be chilling at home with the...
Jun 17, 2015 | A Day In My Life
(Beatrice Coleman’s best friend and sidekick and quilter extraordinaire) Doesn’t everyone love a wedding? Few things are more fun for a small town than a rollicking wedding. It sure makes for the perfect excuse for a party in a sleepy village. This wedding was going...
Jun 16, 2015 | A Day In My Life
Contrary to what most people think, my life as an event planner is not an endless string of parties. Sometimes I bristle a bit when people think all I do is plan weddings and parties. For instance, last night I finished up a Pharmaceutical Packaging Trade Show. There...
Jun 15, 2015 | A Day In My Life
My name is Zoe Donovan and today, after many stops and starts, I have finally committed to the love of my life Zak Zimmerman. I have demonstrated in the past, a certain tendency toward commitment phobia, which has resulted, I’m afraid, in a general consensus, that I...
Jun 14, 2015 | A Day In My Life
Chef Maurice sat at the kitchen table of Le Cochon Rouge, his little French restaurant in Cotswold village of Beakley, looking down at the piece of paper in front of him. At the top, he’d written: ‘A Day in the Life of . . .’ He frowned, causing his large moustache to...
Jun 13, 2015 | A Day In My Life
Across the gravel road Zoe’s childhood home looked smaller, as if shrunken under the weight of life. Smoke from the chimney caught the moonlight in a slow dance, blurring into the night sky. A place of happiness, but Zoe knew better. She pushed the car door open and...