Mar 7, 2014 | A Day In My Life
Looking back, I suppose my decision to join the Heavenly, Pennsylvania Police Department as a detective should have given me more pause than it did. But I did it as a way to be closer to my childhood family. And by closer, I mean geographically. The other kind of...
Mar 6, 2014 | A Day In My Life
“Off, kitty. Tigger, off!” How is a girl supposed to get any work done when a darling ginger cat is trying to lick the nail polish off her toes? Serves me right for preferring flip-flops to tennis shoes. Hi, I’m Jenna Hart. I used to be an ad executive in San...
Mar 5, 2014 | A Day In My Life
A dead-as-a-doornail opponent is one way to win an election…unless you wind up in jail for the murder. “People are going to hate me if I do this,” I said to Auntie KiKi. “They’re going to cuss a blue streak and call me names and tell me to mind my own blankety-blank...
Mar 4, 2014 | A Day In My Life
I’m just the dog. Nobody pays much attention to me, except for my people, Tom and Rachel. They know I can spot a bad guy when I see one, and if I give them a warning they listen. Take those city fellows in suits that showed up at the farm not long ago. Tom and Rachel...
Mar 1, 2014 | A Day In My Life
Author’s Note: Berry farmer Miles Crawford is a pivotal character in my new book, “Town in a Strawberry Swirl,” currently available everywhere. In the posting below, we see what Miles was thinking on the day before some very mysterious events take place in Cape...
Feb 28, 2014 | A Day In My Life
Excerpt from The Green Remains Nora Tierney is an American writer living in England and awaiting two important events: the publication of her first children’s book, and the birth of her first child, one she will raise alone. Heavily pregnant, Nora’s morning walk...