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...
Aug 29, 2013 | A Day In My Life
I sipped at my coffee as I thought about my day. It was going to be another busy one. I was headed over to the diner to give a talk on my latest column, “Casseroles for Any Occasion”. I’m going to be handing out my recipe for Tator Tot Casserole....
Aug 27, 2013 | A Day In My Life
The big thing about living in a truck-mounted camper, you bump your head a lot. So when Chef Cruz startles me awake with repeated loud knocks, I crack my skull against the tin headliner for the third time in two days. Maybe I need a crash helmet. “You cannot do the...
Aug 26, 2013 | A Day In My Life
Hi, my name is Brigid Kildare. I’m a PI. Not the Jim Rockford kind, I’m not into car chases and guns and all that. I do research. You know, like title searches, background checks, forensic audits, all sorts of data kind of stuff. But stuff just sort of happens around...
Aug 22, 2013 | A Day In My Life
Six months ago if you had asked me to describe a typical day in my life, you would have been bored to death in a matter of minutes. Back then I taught earth science at a middle school on Long Island. Yawning yet? From my new perspective, it even sounds dull to me. Had...
