Nov 20, 2017 | A Day In My Life
Southeastern Pennsylvania winters can be as unpredictable as a teenager’s moods. One day it’s sunny and forty-five, the next it’s twenty and snowing. This winter seemed to be in constant snit, and the snow started blanketing the landscape weeks before Christmas. At...
Nov 19, 2017 | A Day In My Life
Singh sits in her cubicle and looks around the empty FBI office. It is early, some time before business hours. So she turns away from her Bureau computer and removes her personal laptop from a drawer. She boots up and logs in. Using an alias, on an encrypted...
Nov 18, 2017 | A Day In My Life
In the gray light before dawn, Rupert stood by the bed, watching and waiting. His patience was rewarded when Ray slid his legs over the side of the bed. A moment later when the bathroom door clicked shut, signaling Ray was getting ready to report for the early shift,...
Nov 17, 2017 | A Day In My Life
We’ve had a prosperous year in Wagtail. It’s the premier resort for vacationing with dogs and cats. So instead of giving gifts and having secret Santas, we decided to help the less fortunate in the community and give them a merry Christmas. Merchants are making...
Nov 16, 2017 | A Day In My Life
When I arrived in Granford, Massachusetts, I was ready to turn around and run after a week. My mother wanted me to fix up and sell a family home she’d inherited, that I’d seen only once in my life. It was the middle of a New England winter, and it was cold and damp...
Nov 15, 2017 | A Day In My Life
Several days before “Time to get up, sleepyhead,” drifted a male voice through the haze. “You’ve been sawing away loudly enough to wake the dead.” Where did he come from? I blinked, but could only see the icy blue eyes of a white-haired old woman glowering at me. She...
