Advice from a small-town girl

Today is Labor Day, so of course I’ve spent it laboring.

I’ve moved a few hundred bolts of fabric.

Some of them more than once, since I don’t really have a plan.

Now I’m tired.

Even though it’s a holiday, as long as I was at the shop, I plugged in the “OPEN” sign, and a few people stopped in. One was a regular customer from the Harrington-Davenport area. Another was a woman with local connections who was on her way home to the west side. Just taking the scenic route. And finally, two couples from Iowa came in. They had been on the road in their RVs since the twelfth of July, and would not be g...