Jun 25, 2016 | A Day In My Life
FOR THE FIRST TIME in four months, my schedule allowed me to sleep in. I would not. Unless on a stakeout, pre-dawn allowed me my best writing time away from my detective work. Looking across the desert riparian while spying the awakening wildlife gifts me a feverish...
Jun 24, 2016 | A Day In My Life
Five p.m. in the newsroom and I am in the zone. A blast of static crackles from the scanner above my desk. “Shots fired on the two-hundred block of Rosa Parks Boulevard,” the female 911 dispatcher calls out in a staccato monotone. I turn back to my story and listen...