A Beautiful Day Once (a novella) – Chapter 3
April 18, 2019A Note from Tracy: Thanks so much for joining me for another installment of A Beautiful Day Once. In Chapter 3, Eden arrives in downtown Woodstock, Illinois, and I couldn’t have been more jealous. She sits in the Starbucks you see in the far left of the image, which is next to the historic Opera House where Rita and Larry pretended to stay in Groundhog’s Day. And all along, I’d been planning for Eden, Abby, & Isla to stay in the Town Square Inn. You’ll have to read the chapter to find out how that works out, but it was ...
A Beautiful Day Once (a novella) – Chapter 2
March 14, 2019A Note from Tracy: Thanks so much for joining me for another installment of A Beautiful Day Once. Through the magic of Google Earth, I had such a fun time walking the streets of Woodstock and exploring the Cherry Tree Inn. If you’d like a reservation at the Inn over Groundhog’s Day, let me warn you, they do it by a lottery system. A few thousand people request reservations each year, so they have a cut-off date, and then they draw names from those who entered to see who will get to stay at the Inn. Can you imagine winning ...
A Beautiful Day Once (a novella) – Chapter 1
February 14, 2019Eden—Age 24“Button up your coats today because the Windy City is going to pack a punch with gusts of wind and temperatures well below freezing. But the real trouble is on its way first thing tomorrow morning. More on the blizzard after this.” Blizzard?!? Eden choked on the bite of frosted flakes that suddenly felt like gravel in her mouth. This could not be happening. Surely she’d heard wrong. The news station cut to a commercial about toilet paper while she tried to recover from an urge to weep. Extreme cold and snow went without saying in Chicago’s brutal winters, ...