Sep 6, 2013 | A Day In My Life
The first thing most people notice about me is my build. I’m kind of skinny. In fact, I’m skin and bones, minus the skin. You see, I’m a skeleton. Don’t freak out. I’m still a person, albeit a dead one. I’m ambulatory, articulate,...
Sep 5, 2013 | A Day In My Life
I’m so worried about my niece, Maggie. She’s just come back from New York City and the news isn’t good. She’s been fired from her wonderful job at the bank. They said she took money from them. I know that’s not true! I’m glad to have her back in Durham, North Carolina...
Sep 4, 2013 | A Day In My Life
Hi, I’m Daisy Buchanan, the fifty-something-year-old proprietress of Sometimes a Great Notion, a sewing notions and antiques shop in the quaint village of Millbury, Pennsylvania. Actually, I’m fifty-eight, but fifty-something sounds better. And yes, in case you’re...
Sep 3, 2013 | A Day In My Life
Clip-clop, clip-clop, rattle was the sounds that came through Running Stitch’s, my Amish quilt shop’s, open front door. I recognized it immediately. An Amish buggy. Without looking up from the cutting table where I was cutting surplus fabric in fat quarters, I knew it...
Sep 2, 2013 | A Day In My Life
Hi, I’m Julia Snowden. Back in March, I left my job in venture capital in New York to return to Busman’s Harbor, Maine to save my family’s failing clambake business. Twice a day, the Snowden Family Clambake Company loads two hundred customers aboard our boat and takes...
Aug 30, 2013 | A Day In My Life
The alarm went off. My husband, Mark, slammed his hand down on the snooze button before snuggling around me even tighter. I fell into him, also happy to stay where I was. Our mornings usually started like this. The alarm would start blaring and we’d just lay in...
