May 21, 2026 | A Day In My Life
Dolly’s Dish 🐾 – A Word with Dolly Barkin… Sugar Hollow’s Sassiest Papillon Well, hello there, sugar dumplin’. Dolly Barkin here. I am honored to welcome you to Sugar Hollow. Come on in and get comfortable. Around here, everyone is family. We tell it like it is…...
May 20, 2026 | A Day In My Life
Why? What? When? Where? How? And who? My mind reeled with questions while I sat in the police cruiser. At least I had moved up to the front passenger seat now, as if I were Officer Gilliam’s partner. Of course, I wasn’t. But I guess he felt bad about having me ride in...
May 19, 2026 | A Day In My Life
The truth is things aren’t going particularly well for me these days. The government seized my house and bank accounts, and I have temporarily moved into a retirement building with my ten-year-old daughter, Bea…who hates me most of the time. My husband (soon to be...
May 18, 2026 | A Day In My Life
As I settle back against my pillows, I feel a twinge of guilt. I should be reading a new release for the bookstore’s newsletter. Crime fiction has always been my go-to in a reading slump, but reality broke my heart and there’s nothing like Jane Austen to heal it. A...
May 15, 2026 | A Day In My Life
role: the town dog Mornings in Cornwall start before the doors open. I make my rounds while the town is still quiet, when the air holds onto the night, and everything smells the way it’s supposed to. No distractions. No people rushing past. Just the steady rhythm of...
May 14, 2026 | A Day In My Life
I come awake like I’m coming up from underwater, struggling to get away from the dream. I’m on the couch, the fire out, the room dark. No one to wake me, to ask me to come to bed. Just me and a book—not even a real book these days. I pick up the cover of my audiobook....
