Oct 28, 2014 | A Day In My Life
It’s Christmas time at Pie in the Sky pie shop in Durham, North Carolina and I’ve never been so worried in my life. Aunt Clara—my partner in pie—has a new beau, Donald Wickerson. He claims to love her Marvelous Mince pies. But I think he has something else in mind. My...
Oct 27, 2014 | A Day In My Life
My name is Liss MacCrimmon Ruskin and in November in an ordinary year I’m busy getting my shop, Moosetookalook Scottish Emporium in Moosetookalook, Maine, ready for the Christmas season. This year, though, my husband and I were offered the chance to get away for a...
Oct 25, 2014 | A Day In My Life
Since Catherine had refused to go to the hospital after she’d been attacked, Louise made sure Catherine made it home safely, before deciding to call it a night and get some dinner. It was the least she could do considering Catherine was the closest thing Louise had...
Oct 24, 2014 | A Day In My Life
Occupation: undercover investigator for the British Horseracing Authority I stand in the shadows at the back of a race-program kiosk near the entrance to Cheltenham racetrack, scanning the faces of the crowd as they flood through the turnstiles. It’s the first day of...
Oct 23, 2014 | A Day In My Life
Meg Langslow writes a letter to one of her cousins, with editorial comments from her husband, Michael December 20 Dear Cousin Safflower, Michael: Do you actually have a cousin named Safflower? Meg: Now I do. She thought Susan was too commonplace. Mother told me that...
Oct 22, 2014 | A Day In My Life
“She doesn’t act her age.” Can you believe someone said that about me recently? I wish I’d been there—I would have asked the guy who said it just exactly how a woman in her fifties is supposed to act. Then I would have fantasized about confirming his opinion in some...
