Monica Albertson and Winter Walk by Peg Cochran

A day here on Sassamanash Farm in Cranberry Cove, Michigan usually starts with sugar and spice and everything nice. Well, at least the sugar and spice part! I’ll be doing a lot of baking this morning—cranberry scones, muffins and bread and whipping up batches of...

What Bunny Morganstern Wants by Nancy Cole Silverman

My name is Carol Childs, I’m a single mom and a reporter for a local talk radio station in Los Angeles, and I’ve got a problem. A week ago I was broadcasting a chocolatier’s tour on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills when there was a jewelry store robbery down the street....

Back Home with Belfast McGrath by Maggie McConnon

I once heard someone say “If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother.” In my case, the saying is more like “If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother, and your father, and that brother, and that brother and that brother and still that brother.” My name is Belfast McGrath –...

A Day in the Life of Merit Bridges by Manning Wolfe

Howdy from Austin, Texas, home of rolling hills covered in bluebonnets, great music, Tex-Mex and weird characters. I’m one of those characters, an attorney living a modern life with high rises and technology, but with one foot firmly planted on South Congress with the...