The Name Tag Sharon Forgot to Make
My name is Harriet Whitfield now. For eighteen years of my life, the first eighteen, I was Harriet Dietz, and I grew up in Bellwood,… Read more
The Ring My Sister Called Junk
I have lived in Millhaven my whole life, two streets over from the farmhouse where I grew up, and I thought I understood every last… Read more
The Folding Table That Outsold the Market
I have made blackberry jam in the same enamel pot since 1994, and I have sold it from the same corner of the Millbrook Farmers… Read more
The Adjuster Who Picked the Wrong Widow
My husband Harold and I built our house on County Road 14 in the spring of 1981. We were both twenty six. We did not… Read more
The Stonemason Who Remembered My Mother
My mother, Helen Pruitt, lived on Larkin Street in Millbrook for fifty six years. It is a small house, white with green shutters, the kind… Read more
The Speaker That Caught Them Planning
I was gone from my own kitchen for fifteen minutes. That is all it took. Fifteen minutes to walk down County Road 12 to the… Read more
