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,...
May 13, 2014 | A Day In My Life
I am looking out of the window at a field full of cows. Red Ruby cows if we’re being specific. How can I, Kat Stanford, born and bred in the City of London end up in a place that frankly reminds me of Cold Comfort Farm—or perhaps that’s too unkind. How about the...
