Apr 16, 2018 | A Day In My Life
Most mornings I wake up with the sound of all those church bells ringing in my ears and wonder where the heck I am. This sure isn’t Leadville, Colorado, where I’d’ve been waking up to the sound of ore carts rattling down from the silver mines and with the stink of the...
Apr 14, 2018 | A Day In My Life
My favorite name these days is “Grampa Seamus.” That’s what my granddaughter, Megan McCree, calls me. She and her father, Paddy, are spending time with me up at my camp on a small lake sequestered deep in the woods of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. We’re fifteen miles...
Apr 10, 2018 | A Day In My Life
The a/c at the Last Ditch Motel is best described as symphonic. It’s not a classical symphony, mind you. It’s modern-atonal over jazz roots, with just a suggestion of someone dropping seven buckets down a fire escape. But I’m used to it now. The water pressure’s not...
Apr 9, 2018 | A Day In My Life
Please call me Charlee, though. Charlemagne is my fancy author’s name. I mean, really, who’d read a mystery by some pipsqueak named Charlee? I’ve been writing mysteries since college and was lucky enough to land a no-nonsense agent right after...
Apr 4, 2018 | A Day In My Life
A cup of coffee on my beach house deck, an ocean breeze, and the glittering Atlantic—my usual morning of Zen. Never believe the old adage: you can’t go home again. At the age of twenty-eight, after ten years of living in Manhattan, I am thrilled to be back in the...
Apr 3, 2018 | A Day In My Life
Hi! Dani Sloan here. I am the brand new owner of Chef-to-Go in Normalton, IL. Chef-to-Go is a sort of hybrid catering company. In addition to doing events, I rent myself out as a personal chef to wealthy couples who don’t know a waffle iron from a food processor and I...
