Jun 10, 2015 | A Day In My Life
Occupation: Homicide Detective It wasn’t the ringing phone at first, it was the paws trampling on my face. Consciousness comes on crushing cat feet, I thought, brutalizing the Carl Sandburg line. My cat Comet was like an inept contract killer when it came to...
Jun 9, 2015 | A Day In My Life
Occupation: Town Manager of Duck, North Carolina A Message to the Citizens for a Better Duck Group I realize how important long-term goals are to our hometown. We have to think about the future but can’t give up on remembering our past. I know that sounds like...
Jun 8, 2015 | A Day In My Life
Kelly Flynn is a C.P.A., so her day starts off with firing up her laptop in her cottage “home office” across from the Lambspun knitting and fiber shop in Fort Connor, Colorado. Having been a C.P.A. myself years ago, I know that numbers and accounts dominate Kelly’s...
Jun 7, 2015 | A Day In My Life
Hello y’all. It’s Caro Lamont, pet therapist here. We’ve shared previous adventures in Desperate Housedogs, Kitty Kitty Bang Bang, and Fifty Shades of Greyhound. And by sharing adventures, what I mean is I know I can count on you to vouch for me that I truly tried to...
Jun 6, 2015 | A Day In My Life
My name is McKenna. I’m a figment Terry Ambrose’s imagination, who fancies himself a mystery writer and was once a skip tracer. For those who don’t know, a skip tracer is someone that finds people who don’t want to be found. Sounds like an interesting job until you...
Jun 5, 2015 | A Day In My Life
I was sipping a cup of tea the other morning, minding my own business, when my daughter, Barbara, a hotshot Realtor, decided it was time for her to list my house and move me to the Golden Hills retirement center. Shoot. I’m only eighty-eight, practically a spring...
