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...
Nov 11, 2019 | A Day In My Life
Hi, I’m Daisy Baxter. I’ve been in the 4th and 5th books of Amy Metz’s Goose Pimple Junction series. Ever since I met Amy, she’s kept me busier than a cranberry merchant. Let me tell you about a typical day. I have OCD—Obsessive Cupcake Disorder. So my day pretty much...
Nov 9, 2019 | A Day In My Life
My name is Lily Wong, which may seem odd to you since my mother is Hong Kong Chinese and my father is North Dakota Norwegian. But when cultures collide, all sorts of unusual things can happen. By standard American custom, I should have been named Lily Knudsen, which...
Nov 5, 2019 | A Day In My Life
Being an Air Raid Warden is not a particularly glamorous way to spend the war, patrolling the streets at night and nagging people about the blackout, especially in a remote English village that hasn’t thought twice about an air raid since the start of our war against...
