Apr 16, 2015 | A Day In My Life
I think I’m an average eight-year-old girl. I’m better in reading and math than some kids. But that’s because my Grandma makes me study math and read every night. I’m lucky to have her – luckier than most people know – because my Grandma is a ghost. She’s still...
Apr 15, 2015 | A Day In My Life
My grandpa Gil is always getting me in trouble and this time he’s invited a fudge-loving prince from Belgium to visit us in Door County, Wisconsin. The prince is excited about a legend of a nun who may have hidden a divinity fudge recipe during the Great Fire of 1871...
Apr 14, 2015 | A Day In My Life
Vance Township Police Chief Pete Adams steered his SUV off Route 15 and toward the new housing development with the grandiose name of Scenic Hilltop Estates. Scenic Hilltop? Yes. The homes perched on a knoll of what had once been a family farm, overlooked scenic...
Apr 13, 2015 | A Day In My Life
(Owner/Proprietor of Belle Epoque, the finest tearoom in Gracious Grove, NY, despite what some folks think.) Day in the life, huh? Finally someone asks after my day. No one wants to listen when I talk about my gout, or my lazy employee, Gilda, or how Rose Freemont,...
Apr 11, 2015 | A Day In My Life
I know that my granddaughter, Ellie, thinks that I’m a bit oblivious to what her mother, my daughter-in-law, thinks of me, but I’m not. I’m a crazy hakujin – that’s basically gringa in Japanese – who’s impetuous and man crazy. Well, I guess the latter is not that...
Apr 10, 2015 | A Day In My Life
I knew a lot went in to planning a wedding, but I never realized exactly how much “a lot” was until this week. I’m rushing around trying to get all sorts of last minute things done (rings picked up from the jeweler, vows written and to the minister, a final head count...
