Jan 13, 2015 | A Day In My Life
Winter, 2015 My friend, Dru, has asked me to tell you about my typical day….but as my friend, Christine Wenger, will tell you, I never have typical days. For instance, I always work the graveyard shift. The people who come into my Silver Bullet Diner on my shift are...
Jan 12, 2015 | A Day In My Life
I taught high school for ten years. English and Sex Ed. You’d think wrangling teenagers in the most boring and most embarrassing of subjects would prepare me for anything. You’d be wrong. I know I was. You see, my teaching years were also my convent years. I used to...
Jan 10, 2015 | A Day In My Life
I knew my Grandma had a lot of health problems. I’m a high school English teacher, and during the school year it was difficult to drive the forty-plus miles to Lotus Bay (my favorite place on Earth) to visit my grandparents, especially with my relationship with Billy...
Jan 9, 2015 | A Day In My Life
Whew. It’s been a long day, but everyone is finally gone. Managing the Bonaparte House, a Greek restaurant located in a bustling tourist town along the St. Lawrence River in New York State, means I work from morning till close to midnight during the summer season,...
Jan 8, 2015 | A Day In My Life
I’m used to living on my own. For decades, I’ve been traveling around the U.S. and living out of my silver Airstream trailer – until this week. I was tired of my itinerant life, so I bought this dilapidated Craftsman house in Portland, Oregon, a friendly city full of...
Jan 7, 2015 | A Day In My Life
One of my favorite parts of writing fiction is creating new characters. They take on a life of their own, and I am often surprised by what they say and do, even though I know I’m the one writing what they say and do. That’s the biggest mystery for me in each mystery...
