Sep 18, 2018 | A Day In My Life
Weird stuff happens on full moon weekends. I’ve encountered people who laugh at me when I mention this particular phenomenon, but I’m here to tell you, it’s true. My name is Zoe Chambers and I’m a paramedic in Monongahela County, which is a rural part of Pennsylvania....
Sep 16, 2018 | A Day In My Life
“How’s your day, Mims?” The voicemail made Mimi Goldman smile. Not just because she was listening to it while seated on her favorite bench in the world near the Bell Tower overlooking a bathtub-calm Chautauqua Lake. Or because she was listening to it while finishing a...
Sep 15, 2018 | A Day In My Life
For all sorts of reasons, I’m easy to spot in Paradise, Mass. For one thing, I’m the youngest patrol officer on the job. Oh, and I’m only one of two women on the force. It’s me and Molly Crane, Jesse’s right hand. I suppose two women on a force of thirteen isn’t so...
Sep 14, 2018 | A Day In My Life
I think I’m the luckiest cat in the world. These days I don’t know any other cats, but since I’m the library cat of the Clover Ridge Library I sure know a lot of people. I was born on a farm in Connecticut. Many other cats lived in the barn along...
Sep 12, 2018 | A Day In My Life
“Take care of my dog.” That was the last thing Martinez said to me on that terrible day in Afghanistan, the day he died and I got shot and Elvis got depressed. Now here we are, me and the bomb-sniffing Belgian shepherd, home in Vermont. There are no...
Sep 10, 2018 | A Day In My Life
I don’t’ like mornings. Not early morning. Not middle morning. Maybe because my Schnauzer, Feda (who is a Feminist dog and doesn’t like the mailman) starts barking as soon as she hears him pushing letters through the mailbox. So that puts me on US Post Office time to...
