Oct 22, 2026 | A Day In My Life
When the call comes in, I’m at my desk with several applications for the open deputy position. I’m looking for someone with people skills and an innate sense of decency. The ability to shoot a gun is not high on my list. It’s hard to find qualified candidates who want...
Oct 21, 2026 | A Day In My Life
Occupation: Retired library assistant I still can’t believe I’m here in Mum’s England. Home of the Bard, Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, Morse, and Downton Abbey. A dream that’s been a long-time coming. At seventy years old, I realized it was now or never. So, I...
Oct 20, 2026 | A Day In My Life
If you’d told me a year ago that I’d be spending my mornings arguing with a dead influencer, I’d have laughed and gone back to my desk. I had a good job then—editor at Faros Publishing, in Athens, where nobody crossed themselves when I walked past....
Oct 16, 2026 | A Day In My Life
June 6, 1929. I’ve never tried to keep a diary before. There didn’t seem to be much point. Every day was the same – placid, pleasant, predictable. I went off in the morning to work at the library and came home at night to dinner on the table, just Mother and me....
Oct 15, 2026 | A Day In My Life
It was a rare quiet day at RogerDog Rescue, the shoestring shelter where I work most days. I was enjoying the peace, updating web profiles for our adoptable dogs when the director, Betty Mills, appeared out of nowhere, a rolled-up newspaper clenched in her hand. Whap!...
Oct 14, 2026 | A Day In My Life
With half a bagel in her teeth, a cup of thick black from the taqueria in hand, Rio Cruze swung onto the LA Metro, and elbowed into a seat. Propping the coffee between her khaki-trousered knees—after years with the LAPD, a basic uniform was the easiest way to...
