Aug 26, 2011 | A Day In My Life
First rule for working at the White House: expect the unexpected. Whatever I have planned to do on any given day, I arrive at working prepared to toss those plans out the window and do whatever is asked of me. Take for example the recent earthquake that shook D.C. and...
Aug 25, 2011 | A Day In My Life
Hi. My name is Charlotte Bessette. I’m a cheese shop owner in Providence, Ohio, raised by my first-generation French grandparents, Grandpère Etienne [Pépère] and Grandmère Bernadette in the thriving tourist town of Providence, Ohio. Up until recently, my grandparents...
Aug 24, 2011 | A Day In My Life
Shift work is tough on the body, never mind the social life. Molly Smith is 27 years old; she’s trying to make her way as a brand new police officer in the small British Columbia town where she grew up. As she says in In the Shadow of the Glacier, the first book in...
Aug 22, 2011 | A Day In My Life
Goodness, a day in my life is not the kind of thing that makes for exciting reading. There’s my children, my children’s bookstore here in Wisconsin, the occasional PTA meeting, and a little bit of the handsome Evan Garrett, the first man in my life after my divorce....
Aug 19, 2011 | A Day In My Life
Funny, how life goes… my mom insisted on naming all us kids with saints names, yet no one in my family calls me Genevieve. Instead, they call me by my middle name, Liv, which in Norwegian means “life”. So being asked to describe a day in the life of...
Aug 17, 2011 | A Day In My Life
Diesel Speaks… (with the help of Miranda James) The first thing any human ever notices about me is my size. They’ve usually never seen a cat like me before. I’m a Maine Coon, and we can get to be pretty big (and I’m not talking about overeating and being obese, thank...
