Apr 22, 2017 | A Day In My Life
Hi. I’m Alexa Williams. Can you believe that Penn’s Woods Style wants to feature my house in their Spring issue? It is a lovely old cabin – more than one hundred years old. My parents put a lot of work into it a few years back to upgrade the kitchens and the...
Apr 21, 2017 | A Day In My Life
Vacation time! I’m in Turks and Caicos for two weeks of vacation. And, boy do I need it. I love my job, working with the UN, trying to introduce modern policing methods to fragile states. But it can be tough work, both physically and emotionally. First I was stationed...
Apr 20, 2017 | A Day In My Life
My name is Agnes Agatha Odboddy. I live with my Siamese cat, Ling-Ling, and my granddaughter, Katherine. She lost her fiancé last year at Pearl Harbor but there’s a new doctor in town, and things are heating up in the romance department. Katherine works at the Curls...
Apr 19, 2017 | A Day In My Life
We are Not the Usual Suspects, a group of Pacific Northwest mystery writers who have banded together to contemplate life, mystery and of course, murder. Though not all of our mysteries are set in the Northwest, we all agree that living here inspires our writing. I’m...
Apr 18, 2017 | A Day In My Life
As reported by Miss Head’s close personal friend and confidante, Miss Lillian Frost, formerly of Flushing, New York and crowned Miss Astoria Park of 1936. Los Angeles, California. December 1938. Ahem. Morning does not greet Edith Head, bespectacled queen of costume...
Apr 17, 2017 | A Day In My Life
It’s dawn, and dense fog covers the Saratoga backstretch as I do my undercover work for the Thoroughbred Racing Protective Bureau. The heavy mist leaves Saratoga’s training track virtually invisible, but I can smell its sandy dirt and sense the expanse of the mile...