Feb 10, 2015 | A Day In My Life
My name is Wren Morgan and I’m an auctioneer with Keystone and Sons Auctioneers, a family-owned company based in the little town of East Bledsoe Ferry, Missouri. You may have seen my name in the paper recently, after I went in to catalog the Campbell estate and...
Feb 9, 2015 | A Day In My Life
The upright bass strings resonated, the notes deep and husky. In the background, the finger-snapping began. Peggy Lee’s voice threaded over the top of the rhythm. It was playful, hot, and full of delicious promise. She was doing her best to convince me that I couldn’t...
Feb 7, 2015 | A Day In My Life
Are you done with that? If you are, I’d be happy to take it off your hands. Yes, I realize you were about to toss it and that this exchange may be awkward for you, but not for me. My name is CeCe Prentice and I’m a Freegan. Don’t worry. Freeganism is not contagious...
Feb 6, 2015 | A Day In My Life
I have a new recipe in the oven–Chocolate-Coffee Loaf. It’s going to be yummy. With cocoa and coffee, how can it not be? Easy too with one bowl mix-up. While that’s baking, I’m planning the finishing touches to my next house staging. I’ve...
Feb 5, 2015 | A Day In My Life
I’m known around these parts as The Amazing Althea, not just because of my psychic abilities—my specialty bein’ palms and tarot cards—but because I bake some of the best banana bread y’all will ever taste. In fact, I reckon that’s how I earned my nickname. People took...
Feb 4, 2015 | A Day In My Life
So you probably already know not to eat French fries with your fingers in Chile, not to shake hands across a threshold in Russia, and to always sit in the backseat of a taxi (never up front with the driver) if you’re a woman traveling solo in Costa Rica. But you...
