Mar 5, 2015 | A Day In My Life
When my life blew up—when I stumbled over my now-ex husband, Mr. Bicycle Cop, practically plugging coins into Miss Meter Maid (I can’t bring myself to say “parking enforcement officer”) and then the job I loved, managing staff HR for a huge law firm, disappeared when...
Mar 4, 2015 | A Day In My Life
5:30 am – Get into Hair and Make-up. Really? Why did I agree to appear on the godawful reality TV show, Love or Money? Oh yeah. Life wasn’t going as smoothly as it could. 6:30 am – I’m still not awake yet, and I look unrealistically pretty for this “reality” show....
Mar 3, 2015 | A Day In My Life
Occupation: Gentlewoman of England I was born Rosamond Appleton, the illegitimate child of a wayward knight. His widow took on the duties of a foster mother. She raised and educated me—in a manner far beyond what most young gentlewomen are taught—and spoiled me as if...
Mar 2, 2015 | A Day In My Life
There it is! Would you mind? Just kick it over here – yes, thank you! I know it’s simply a button, one of those round-topped ones with a big, braided dome. But that’s what makes it special. That’s what makes it roll in such an intriguing semi-circle, as if it were...
Feb 28, 2015 | A Day In My Life
They’re throwing me out of the bar. Sure, I shouldn’t have hit him, but when you put an unwanted hand on a woman, there are consequences. Can I help it that with my defense skills I can put a guy on his back without breaking a sweat? I can hear him hurling...
Feb 27, 2015 | A Day In My Life
Secrets are sneaky little things and they always escape, no matter how hard you try to hold them, like smoke through your fingers. My name is Vivian Tremont and I’m a milliner in the shop I inherited from my grandmother Mim. My American cousin Scarlett Parker and I...
