May 23, 2014 | A Day In My Life
My fingers hover over my laptop as I desperately wait for a burst of inspiration. The blank white screen kind of freaks me out, so I peck out the words A DAY IN MY LIFE with the three fingers I generally use to operate a keyboard. That’s a bit better, doesn’t look...
May 22, 2014 | A Day In My Life
For thirty-two years, I had a stock answer when asked what a typical day was like for me, soap opera actress Veronica Walsh. I’d wake up at 5 a.m., drive to Manhattan, rehearse my scenes for the day’s filming of Days and Nights, have my hair and makeup done, get in...
May 21, 2014 | A Day In My Life
My name’s Baxley Powell and my family is a little different, so I shouldn’t have been surprised when I woke up with a streak of white hair in my forelock recently. But I was alarmed. Being different is one thing, being way different is like having lights and sirens...
May 20, 2014 | A Day In My Life
I’m doing my best to forget that my birthday is coming up. Unfortunately, everyone here in the Enchanted Village seems intent on reminding me. My aunt Ve even wants to throw a party. A party. For the love, as my sister Harper would say. I, at least, talked Aunt Ve...
May 19, 2014 | A Day In My Life
I think living with Sarah Booth Delaney has rubbed off in me in ways I can’t even count. I’ve become hard-headed as a knot of cedar. Determined to bend life to my will. And I also have a sense that the past is never far behind me. Ever since I was in high school, I’ve...
May 17, 2014 | A Day In My Life
“Where’s the patient?” The teenage boy with the buzz cut waved me toward the living room. A vacuum cleaner stood in the middle of the wall-to-wall beige carpet. With over one hundred and fifty thousand dollars in student loans for my veterinary degree, I couldn’t...
