Jan 15, 2015 | A Day In My Life
I’m Metropolitan Police Lieutenant Sam Holland, and my day often begins in the dead of night when dispatch calls to tell me we’ve got another homicide in the District of Columbia. Middle-of the night phone calls never bothered me until I married Nick. Now I’ve got a...
Jan 14, 2015 | A Day In My Life
My name’s Angelina Bonacelli, but you can call me Mama Bones like everybody else. I grew up a few miles from here in Jersey’s once famous summer resort, Asbury Park. My parents leased soda-making equipment and illegal betting cards to venders on the Jersey...
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,...
