Jul 5, 2014 | A Day In My Life
My ideal day would be spent in the office, focusing on the tasks I’d set out for myself, ending the day at precisely 5 pm with a strike-through of the final item on my To Do list. In my twenty-three years as director of the library in Chilson, Michigan, can you...
Jul 3, 2014 | A Day In My Life
I’m Eve Angelotta, head chef at Miracolo, the Italian Restaurant on Market Square at the center of Quaker Hills, Pennsylvania. We’re forty minutes north of Philly. My nonna, Maria Pia Angelotta, who actually owns the restaurant, will try to tell you Miracolo’s the...
Jul 2, 2014 | A Day In My Life
I did a bad thing. My name is Carlton Smythe. At the age of 53 I fell in love with a woman who wasn’t my wife, and engaged in a criminal act as the result. I suppose you could say that it was more a matter of lust than love, but let’s not parse words. The woman who...
Jul 1, 2014 | A Day In My Life
I love my grandfather. Not only was he my number one hero as I grew up, but after I lost my job as an accountant with Washington Heritage Financial (I had nothing to do with that scandal. I’m not even clear on what junk bonds are) and after my fiancé called off our...
Jun 30, 2014 | A Day In My Life
My name is Margaret Sybil Broadly Benson, née Spencer, but you can call me Mags. I told my biographer, Nancy Lynn Jarvis, that I was going to be on Dru’s blog today and asked if she would write something for me to say, but did she? No, she did not. I’d like to think...
Jun 28, 2014 | A Day In My Life
A typical day in my life is a lot more memorable than most. Not that my life is any more exciting than anybody else’s … most of the time. It’s just that since the age of 11, I’ve been blessed – or cursed – with hyperthymestic syndrome, otherwise known as superior...
