May 7, 2014 | A Day In My Life
Verna Crowell and her pet rabbit live next door to the newly opened Dixie Dew Bed and Breakfast. She and the rabbit (named Robert Redford, Verna figured the rabbit was as close to the actor as she’d ever get) do more to confuse B&B owner Beth’s search...
May 6, 2014 | A Day In My Life
My first day at the Cloverdale fair went great. I’d taken a booth to advertise my new shop, Piper’s Picklings, which I’d set up after my move to Cloverdale in upstate New York, and it was definitely working. Maybe it was my unique (and expensive!) pickle barrel,...
May 5, 2014 | A Day In My Life
It looks like a seaside cottage—probably a hundred years old—and has to be the friendliest looking shop I’ve ever seen. The front window is filled with amazing yarn, some draped over branches, some floating on a pile of autumn leaves. The whole thing teasing, coaxing,...
May 3, 2014 | A Day In My Life
As I peered through the wavy glass windows of the Victorian dollhouse that I’d purchased at auction for two hundred dollars, I brushed angrily against the tears streaming down my face. Too bad I could never set foot inside. Within its rooms was a perfect little world...
May 2, 2014 | A Day In My Life
A lifer in the innkeeping trade who got a chance to indulge her taste for adventure after the kids were grown, Elizabeth Gunn has been a liveaboard sailor, SCUBA diver and explorer through North America, Mexico and Europe. After a second career in travel writing, she...
Apr 30, 2014 | A Day In My Life
My parents, Mrs. Charity Prim and Mr. Cornelius Prim, raised me to believe that I am in charge of my life. “You are fortunate to have been born at a time of women’s progress,” Mother used to say. “You and your sister have choices that were unavailable to me. Make the...
