Robbie Jordan Meets Cam Flaherty by Edith Maxwell

Hey, there. Robbie Jordan here. I had the funnest day yesterday. March is kind of a slow month in southern Indiana, and the breakfast rush in my country store restaurant Pans ‘N Pancakes hadn’t been much of a rush at all. Along about ten the bell on the door jangled...

A Day in the Life of Mari Arai by Naomi Hirahara

I don’t get my father. I really don’t get him. He rarely said two words to me growing up, which was hard for an only child like me. But I still looked forward to him coming home, driving up in our narrow driveway in his beat-up gardening truck. It was green, but not a...

Monica Albertson and Winter Walk by Peg Cochran

A day here on Sassamanash Farm in Cranberry Cove, Michigan usually starts with sugar and spice and everything nice. Well, at least the sugar and spice part! I’ll be doing a lot of baking this morning—cranberry scones, muffins and bread and whipping up batches of...

What Bunny Morganstern Wants by Nancy Cole Silverman

My name is Carol Childs, I’m a single mom and a reporter for a local talk radio station in Los Angeles, and I’ve got a problem. A week ago I was broadcasting a chocolatier’s tour on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills when there was a jewelry store robbery down the street....