Jul 19, 2022 | A Day In My Life
Hello from Syonan (Japan Occupied Singapore). It’s August 1945. My name is Chen Su Lin and I’m twenty-four years old, born in the year of the metal monkey. Some say the war is over in the West, Germany has surrendered. Here we are isolated without radios and Japan...
Jul 18, 2022 | A Day In My Life
Things have been different since my husband died, returning (as I thought) from saving lives at one of our local hospitals. Of course I was in mourning, but it was a mourning cut short when I learned he’d been unfaithful to me. Even learning the circumstances...
Jul 15, 2022 | A Day In My Life
May 28, 1872M. WilcoxRancho de Las FloresLos Angeles, California My Dearest Sister Carrie; I would normally wait until Sunday to send you my usual missive, however, your gift of that lovely, flowered lawn arrived last Saturday morning, and I have just now realized...
Jul 14, 2022 | A Day In My Life
I’m sorry. I couldn’t hear you over the chatter in here. Did you say you want to take that chair? My friend is joining me but. . .sure, ok. It is crowded with the morning coffee rush, and the window seat does make it easier to pass the time. Would you like me to lean...
Jul 13, 2022 | A Day In My Life
No matter what my mother goes around telling everyone, I did not resign from my high-tech business position in Chandler, Arizona, and start a charcuterie catering service and sandwich shop in quirky Cave Creek as a result of a breakup with my philandering boyfriend....
Jul 12, 2022 | A Day In My Life
Isn’t it every woman’s dream to move from their small, sleepy hometown in a New England village to a beautiful tropical paradise, to put the past behind her and forge a new life in an exciting place? I did exactly that when I left Moose Knuckle, New Hampshire for...
