Mar 16, 2022 | A Day In My Life
It’s a Saturday morning and few people are at the marina yet. It’s too early. I’m too early. But I’m anxious. This is the day that I—Risa Marr—get the chance to change my life forever. Streaks of pink and gold warm the Florida sky. The wheels on my rolling suitcase...
Mar 15, 2022 | A Day In My Life
Bright sunlight is streaming in through the window in my bedroom, a room that’s only accessible through the secret staircase activated by a stone dragon that hides a lever. It’s six o’clock in the morning. A few months ago, I wouldn’t have believed you if you told me...
Mar 14, 2022 | A Day In My Life
7:00 am: Alarm goes off. Contemplate the snooze button. Another twenty minutes won’t hurt. 7:02 am: Dog nose in my eye. Get up, load coffeemaker and set it on kill. I’m going to need all the help I can get today. I take Teddy, my probably-German-Shepard rescue mutt...
Mar 9, 2022 | A Day In My Life
You might say I have a strange sense of humor, but that’s what growing up around dead bodies will do to you. My family and I love a good macabre joke—it’s like a secret language of our own. We all—my mom and dad, my brother Jack, and me—we all work in the funeral...
Mar 8, 2022 | A Day In My Life
Hello! My name is Irene Ingram and I’m the editor-in-chief of the Progress Herald. Pop left me in charge when he pulled some strings with a friend in the war department and got assigned to be a war correspondent. Right now he’s on a ship heading for somewhere in the...
Mar 7, 2022 | A Day In My Life
Hi, I’m Jill, owner of the coffee shop and bookstore, Coffee, Books, and More, here in South Cove, California. We’re a beachy tourist town and I’m also in charge of the business-to-business group. Which means I get to run a meeting about local events and issues of...
