Aug 18, 2020 | A Day In My Life
If someone had told me that I’d be a widow at age 36 and heading off to spend a weekend with my glamorous big sister in a hotel on a remote island that I’d never heard of but now apparently belonged to me, I would have thought them mad. For a start, my beloved Robert...
Aug 15, 2020 | A Day In My Life
Molly O’Donnell, bookseller, wakes up to the sound of her Russian wolfhound, Blavatsky, thumping the crate with her tail. Somehow the dog is able to wag her tail in a circle like a helicopter’s blade. Molly cries out, “Good morning, guys!” and opens the crates of...
Aug 14, 2020 | A Day In My Life
The name on my birth certificate is Lavender Lewis, but friends call me Lew. I grew up in a commune in Alaska with well-defined gender roles and lots of rules. It was probably inevitable that I would rebel. I escaped by joining the army at 17. When my enlistment...
Aug 11, 2020 | A Day In My Life
Hello, I’m Charlotte Reed and I live in Beaufort, a historic coastal town in North Carolina. Although I was a high school English teacher for most of my adult life, I’m now the owner of Chapters, a bed-and-breakfast I inherited from my great-aunt, Isabella Harrington....
