Feb 22, 2016 | A Day In My Life
I can’t believe how my life has changed since I met and married the sheriff of Beaver County, Oregon, Mike Reynolds. He kept coming to my coffee shop, Kelly’s Koffee Shop, to eat whenever he could. It didn’t occur to me for a long time that he was interested in...
Feb 21, 2016 | A Day In My Life
I want to nominate Theo Abernathy for best friend ever. My name is Nina Crisp and like Theo, I grew up in tiny Silersville, Tennessee. After college, Theo worked in textiles for a while before reconnecting with Tony Abernathy and they married. They lived in Chicago...
Feb 20, 2016 | A Day In My Life
Hello to y’all from Carol Andrews, waving from the Gulf Coast of Florida. I thought I’d share part of a recent adventure with you, as a way for us to get acquainted. Some days aren’t as exciting as this one, but since Jim retired a few years ago, life has provided us...
Feb 19, 2016 | A Day In My Life
I never planned to become a police officer. It wasn’t something I dreamt about when I was a little girl. As the child of a 60s radical hippy mother and a Vietnam War draft-dodging father, it would have been pretty much unthinkable. But things have a way of changing...
Feb 18, 2016 | A Day In My Life
“Thanks for giving me a ride, guys,” said Jenny, jumping into the back of my convertible blue ’67 Impala. Jenny works with me at Carrie Mae. “No prob,” I said, checking traffic and pulling away from the curb. “Did they tell you what was wrong with your car?” asked...
Feb 17, 2016 | A Day In My Life
Death Bogart parked his ten-year-old Jeep Grand Cherokee on the back lot of a hot dog stand that had gone out of business a decade earlier. He looked around ruefully. Even the prettiest little towns seemed to have areas like this–dingy, depressed neighborhoods...