Jun 21, 2016 | A Day In My Life
People always want to know what it’s like to have a cool mom. Not one of those, I’m trying to be a cool mom because I’m really not cool but I want everyone to think I am type of moms. No, I have an actual cool mom. The sort a teenage girl likes to hang out with and...
Jun 20, 2016 | A Day In My Life
I was in a snit. To begin, with, August sucked. By then Phoenix had seen more than three months of over-100-degree days. Electricity bills were the highest of the whole year, even if you kept your ancient air conditioner at eighty-five degrees. It was too hot to take...
Jun 18, 2016 | A Day In My Life
My name is Lexi Jakobson and I’m nineteen years old and I live on Black Hammock which is a barrier island south of the Florida-Georgia border. Don’t believe what they say about me. I have been off the island. To go to high school when I went. And church when Walter...
Jun 17, 2016 | A Day In My Life
Maggie Browne here. Dru has so nicely invited me to share my day with her. I have to tell you, it’s going to be dull! First off, I spend my mornings at St. Rose quilting with my friends in the Quilting Bee. We are all great mystery fans—like Dru Ann—so we spend a lot...
Jun 15, 2016 | A Day In My Life
The trouble began with the oak tree on my front lawn. Not that the tree itself caused me any difficulty. That lovely tree gave me nothing but pleasure. My father planted it when I was just a girl, more than 60 years ago. I played on it, my late daughter climbed on it....
Jun 14, 2016 | A Day In My Life
The thing about writing crime fiction is that your mind never really turns off. You (the author) think about interesting ways to kill people with whom you have no particular argument and then how to conceal the deed in a way that seems impenetrable but has one fatal...
