May 25, 2015 | A Day In My Life
I awoke the other day to an eerie keening of the wind and believed the ocean had delivered a storm to our shores here on Aquidneck Island. Although the sudden nature of the storm puzzled me—there hadn’t been the slightest indication the previous night—I turned over...
May 24, 2015 | A Day In My Life
I don’t know what you people want from me. If you’re trying to get some dirt on my boyfriend, Bert Shambles, keep dreaming. Bert’s the sweetest guy I’ve ever met—totally different from the typical Long Island men who hit on you at clubs with their gold chains and...
May 23, 2015 | A Day In My Life
My phone rings at 4:20 a.m. Whenever I get a call that early it usually involves a hiker in the Colorado high country who hasn’t returned when expected. I push through my sleep-fog and begin to mentally review the contents of the Search and Rescue ready-pack that sits...
May 22, 2015 | A Day In My Life
My name is Mavis Loomis, and I’m the owner of The Bottom Dollar Emporium which is an old- fashioned general store in Cayboo Creek, South Carolina that stocks everything from ribbon candy to courting candles to long underwear. It has a soda fountain, manned by my best...
May 21, 2015 | A Day In My Life
Hello. I’m Carrie Kennersly. If you’ve been to the town of Knobcone Heights, California, in the San Bernardino Mountains and brought your pet along, you may have met me–although I hope the circumstances were good. I’m a veterinary technician at...
May 20, 2015 | A Day In My Life
Thank you for inviting me back, Dru Ann. Much has happened since we chatted a year ago. The summer tourist season in our little beach village of Corolla, North Carolina started quietly enough until Tropical Storm Ana unearthed a body buried under a vacation home...
