Mar 20, 2012 | A Day In My Life
Lots of people think it would be great fun to own your own small business, especially if it involved plants, gardens, and healthy food. Well, lots of people could be right—on the good days, anyway. I ran away from the law (that is, I left my career as a Houston...
Mar 19, 2012 | A Day In My Life
My name is Lindsey Norris and I am a book nerd. There is no way to sugar coat it, dress it up in satin or add a ribbon to make it pretty, I am a book geek to the tenth power, and I have the poor eyesight and the head in the clouds demeanor that comes with it. If I...
Mar 16, 2012 | A Day In My Life
“Okay. Here’s how it is,” Burgess said, trying to find a position in the chair that would accommodate his bad knee and his sore back, “there is no typical day in the life of a personal crimes detective. How the day goes depends on what the bad guys have been up to....
Mar 14, 2012 | A Day In My Life
So there I was, at the opening of the Neptune Aquarium in Charleston, South Carolina. A private party for big buck donors where I’d been tapped to cater tea and scones. That’s what I do, you see. I’m the proprietor of the Indigo Tea Shop, a cozy little place with tea...
Mar 13, 2012 | A Day In My Life
Hello, my name is Molly Murphy. Actually it has just changed to Molly Sullivan. My life just underwent a dramatic change recently, when I married my sweetheart, New York Police Captain Daniel Sullivan. Now I’m a respectable married woman, and my days are filed with...
Mar 12, 2012 | A Day In My Life
I work in a building that’s full of paper—an old building with a lot of old paper. I’m Nell Pratt, president of the Pennsylvania Antiquarian Society for the past few months, and I’m still trying to get used to the job. When I heard about the...
