Oct 3, 2012 | A Day In My Life
My name is Summer Westin, but most people call me Sam. In college, I majored in wildlife biology and dreamed of becoming a park ranger. But there are only so many ranger positions across the U.S., and I never landed one of them. So I patch together a living by doing...
Oct 2, 2012 | A Day In My Life
Savannah was hot as a basted turkey and just as humid as I drove the Lexus to my house. The smell of fine leather and the feel of an electronically cooled seat chilling my derriere made me realize just how much I’d missed this car my ex took in the divorce. Right now...
Oct 1, 2012 | A Day In My Life
I wake up in every morning burrowed under the pillows on the living room sofa, while my nemesis, Albert the Cat, slumbers on the bed in the bedroom. I do not complain. It is my duty to protect the casa from intruders, and only the living room allows me to patrol the...
Sep 27, 2012 | A Day In My Life
A typical day? That’s a tough one. See, I don’t have a set schedule, and I love it. I tried the nine-to-five office routine, but it was like the death of a thousand cuts—paper cuts, that is. But still, I couldn’t take it. I guess you’d say my days are fluid. I’m a...
Sep 26, 2012 | A Day In My Life
I love to wake up wearing my favorite tee shirt which says The Queen of Everything. It starts my day off right – that and a breakfast that includes plenty of fat and sugar. I don’t trust a woman who won’t eat fat and sugar. Usually I have three slices of bacon, two...
Sep 25, 2012 | A Day In My Life
I own a bookstore, Pip’s Pages, in the small town of Dickens Junction, Oregon (just outside Astoria, near the mouth of the Columbia River). Dickens Junction was founded more than fifty years ago by my grandfather, Ebenezer Dickens Junior, to honor the life and works...
