Jun 8, 2022 | A Day In My Life
Do you have a vintage cookbook you love? Maybe one from decades ago, like the 1960s or 1950s or even earlier? A cookbook handed down from your grandmother to your mother to you? And can you sell it to me? Argh, I’m sorry! That was incredibly rude. I have a tendency to...
Jun 7, 2022 | A Day In My Life
June 1999, Phoenix, Arizona My father’s request couldn’t have come at a worse time. He called me one morning to say his B24, the flying Liberator he had jumped out of during the Second World War, had been located. I had heard the story since I’d been a little girl, so...
Jun 5, 2022 | A Day In My Life
Sissy flicked her cigarette into the darkness and yanked the door to Video Video Video open. The bells above the door clanged against the glass. Looking back at me, Sissy said, “Morrison, quit being such a whiny baby, we’ll go next weekend. I don’t feel like driving...
Jun 3, 2022 | A Day In My Life
My name is Diane Wells, and I did not murder my husband. The date is November 5, 1953, and I have decided to write down what happened today, though I can barely remember most of it. I feel like I have been through a brainwashing. The police and a US Marshal were...
Jun 2, 2022 | A Day In My Life
Traveling is the ultimate escape, isn’t it? Hi, I’m Stefanie Adams, senior private banker at Markham-Briggs Banks. Oops, former private banker at Markham-Briggs, but I don’t want to dwell on that. Looking out the window of the Aegean Airlines flight from Athens to...
May 31, 2022 | A Day In My Life
Who knew a simple weekend bachelorette party could turn my world upside down? And it wasn’t even mine. When my assistant producer, Sandy Wynne, requested a few days off to celebrate with friends, I couldn’t refuse. No problem covering her two live shows. I’d done it...