Jul 8, 2014 | A Day In My Life
The phone rang, and I answered it. I know — pigeon move, right? You look at the caller I.D. and it says something like “VALUTECH LLC” or “LUXURY LIVING” or (in this case) “WHEELER AND ASSOC” and you know what that means. Or I do, anyway. Because usually I’m the one on...
Jul 7, 2014 | A Day In My Life
My work is never done. That sounds like the story of my life, and honestly—it is. When I came to live in Stoneham and decided to take over the cookbook store, the Cookery, I had no idea what a successful businesswoman I would become. Of course, I modeled my store...
Jul 6, 2014 | A Day In My Life
I’ve never kept a secret from my best friend. Ever. Until now. And this is kind of the mother of all secrets. But I can’t tell her—Brook is in no place to hear something like this at the moment. I’ve never seen her this affected by the end of a relationship...
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...
