Dec 18, 2015 | A Day In My Life
“My friend and business neighbor, Alice “Pinky” Nelson, talked me into hiring extra help in our shops for the Christmas season, and this is how the first day with our new employees began. But it was far better than the way it ended.”~ Cami Brooks Emmy reported for...
Dec 17, 2015 | A Day In My Life
I live on a city block of small apartment buildings and stores built around a community garden with flowers and trees and a koi pond and clumps of Adirondack chairs where you can rest, or read, or toast marshmallows by the fire pit. It sounds pretty idyllic, right? I...
Dec 16, 2015 | A Day In My Life
I am Jennet Jaffrey, housekeeper to Lady Appleton of Leigh Abbey in Kent. Since Elizabeth Tudor came to the throne of England in 1558, my mistress and I have been involved in solving more murders than I wish to count. She and I both deserve to take our ease. In...
Dec 15, 2015 | A Day In My Life
There’s not much that’s sadder than a grieving animal. Even goats, the orneriest of the animal kingdom, take a punch to the gut with grief. My Grandpa Ed had a goat who lost his beard and couldn’t stand to live without it. Literally. But it’s dogs who’ll just break...
Dec 14, 2015 | A Day In My Life
First things first. Every blessed day of Elsie Arnold’s life starts with a cold can of Diet Coke. She drinks it down and dirty, straight from the can. No time wasted pulling a plastic tumbler from the cabinet of her one-bedroom apartment, filling it with ice. The Diet...
Dec 13, 2015 | A Day In My Life
Hi again. Rory Anderson here, remember me? I last visited after that kerfuffle, as my neighbor Mrs. Griswold called it, in my garden. You know, the body I found. Just thought I’d say hi and bring you up to date on what’s going on in my life. It’s quieted down a lot,...
