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...
May 16, 2014 | A Day In My Life
I first saw Mary Poppins at the age of eight and its sunny disposition impressed on me in a most needed way. So much happy and fun and freedom tucked into those one hundred and some odd minutes – and I loved them all. I climbed the three flights of stairs to the top...
May 15, 2014 | A Day In My Life
I’m Gus Farnham, owner of a restaurant here in Busman’s Harbor, Maine. My restaurant is for local folks, a place where they can get away from playing the “old salt” routine for the terrorists. I mean the tourists. I started the restaurant with my wife, Mrs. Gus, in...
May 14, 2014 | A Day In My Life
Margery Flax here, the Coronado Tropic Apartments landlady. At least I was until that Snakehead Bay detective arrested me for murdering my ex-husband, Zach. I’m Helen and Phil’s landlady. They live at the Coronado with their fur bag, Thumbs. Most people don’t know it,...
