Aug 3, 2017 | A Day In My Life
Nothing ruins a marriage faster than finding your football star husband holding private cheerleading tryouts in your bedroom—especially when the three woman on top of him are wearing nothing but high heels and using pompoms in ways so dirty they’d make a stripper...
Aug 2, 2017 | A Day In My Life
Last night was like something out of a nightmare. A medical helicopter was shot down just as it was making its final approach over the Mississippi River to land at the University of Minnesota Medical Center. Two pilots killed, dozens of students injured, rotor blades...
Aug 1, 2017 | A Day In My Life
I have no idea how these things happen to me. I mean, seriously. Here I am, minding my own business, home for the first time in nearly a year for my grandmother’s funeral, and all of a sudden I’m tasked with saving my grandfather’s house from a conniving, chauvinistic...
Jul 31, 2017 | A Day In My Life
The EMTs were missing. Two weeks earlier, on my first day as the farmers’ market’s manager, I’d thought the size of the first aid tent, easily twice the size of the individual market stalls, was overkill. What could go wrong in the buying and selling...
Jul 29, 2017 | A Day In My Life
Sunday, April 4, 1880 All of my efforts to prove myself an able seaman ended abruptly yesterday with Captain Gray’s order to commence the seal hunt. At first, he was reluctant to let me, his ship’s surgeon, work alongside his crew in the bloody enterprise, but with a...
Jul 28, 2017 | A Day In My Life
Hey guys, Greg King here. I’m filling in today for Jill Gardner, your Coffee, Books, and More owner and columnist. Jill’s working at the bookstore, training her newest employee, Deek. Man, that kid is something else. Fun and smart, but you couldn’t tell it from the...