Nov 22, 2019 | A Day In My Life
Do you have a guilty secret? I do. I love Elvis Presley. Ever since I saw him perform on television, I haven’t been able to listen to anything else. Sometimes I wonder whether the shock of it would have killed my husband, if he’d lived long enough to see it. It was...
Nov 20, 2019 | A Day In My Life
What more proof do I need that my life is going nowhere than realizing my New Year’s resolutions hadn’t changed one whit from the previous year? I’m Crystal Rainey and that epiphany impelled me to walk out on being a hum-drum, soul-sucked office drone and land my...
Nov 18, 2019 | A Day In My Life
“Holiday Family Shenanigans” Why can family push your buttons so easily? They installed them. Came up with that bit of wisdom myself! I’m Jolie Tucker, by the way. This is my reality: living in Leavensport, OH—a small village that is thirty miles from the...
Nov 16, 2019 | A Day In My Life
It was already a ‘not enough aspirin and vodka in the world day’ and the digits on my wrist said 9:54 a.m. One minute later than the last time I looked. The man sitting across the desk from me—it would be a man—was explaining the historical significance of German...
Nov 15, 2019 | A Day In My Life
It’s dark in my small bedroom when I awaken with a sense that someone is watching me. I lie still, pushing away the night terrors that have haunted me lately, ghosts from my past that come to me in wisps of memory or dreams—images that are hard to sort into what is...
Nov 13, 2019 | A Day In My Life
“To be, or not to be?” It’s the question on everyone’s mind since a body was found in Shakespeare’s Garden, the pose inspired by a scene in Hamlet. It’s hard to say what the future holds for the Shakespeare Festival. I’m Emmeline Prather, and although I’m part of the...
