Mar 17, 2017 | A Day In My Life
Before I moved to Ireland last year, I spent all my life in Boston. There are real winters there. It snows in Boston, which makes the whole city a real mess for a day or three. That was the only time I was glad we didn’t own a car, because it would have been a pain to...
Mar 16, 2017 | A Day In My Life
Nothing beats horseback riding through the woods on one of those rare gorgeous days in November, blue sky instead of the usual dreary gray that we get here in southwestern Pennsylvania from October until May. I might be exaggerating. But only a little. Those of us...
Mar 15, 2017 | A Day In My Life
Ever since I moved to the seaside town of Wildwood Cove to run The Flip Side pancake house, my days have started early. Luckily, I’m a morning person so I don’t mind my alarm going off at five AM. If, however, I have any trouble getting out of bed, I’ve got a backup...
Mar 14, 2017 | A Day In My Life
My name is Sydney McCall, but all my friends call me Syd. Up until recently I had a cushy job at a New York advertising agency – and then I caught my fiancée, who just happened to be the son of the company president, in a compromising position with my secretary! I was...
Mar 13, 2017 | A Day In My Life
“Don’t you?” I have to remember to stop saying that. Jayne says it annoys people when I point out things they’ve overlooked. I think that if people don’t bother to observe the things around them, then they shouldn’t fault me for doing so. But, I’ll try to behave in...
Mar 11, 2017 | A Day In My Life
“More coffee, Alvaro?” It’s the skinny one, Ted Kuhl, the one who looks like a stovepipe with hair and walks around with a chip the size of Winsome. He sits at the café’s long copper-topped table, a tumble of papers in front of him. I watch him, seeing the way he...