Feb 11, 2014 | A Day In My Life
It was Valentine’s Day. Connor wanted to do something special for his special lady, but it was also the day her shop, Crewel World, was open late. He cast around for an idea, and finally suggested at breakfast, “Hire me.” “What?” she said, over the heart-shaped...
Feb 10, 2014 | A Day In My Life
Believe it or not, when Emily McGlashen first came to town and opened her Irish dance studio, I thought we could be friends. I thought it could be fun to partner on some dance events and so on. I’ve trained and danced in New York and while the competition has been...
Feb 8, 2014 | A Day In My Life
The Day I went to Cairo Word on the street was that something nuclear was coming down from the old Soviet arsenal in Belarus, and it was bound for Al Qaeda, so I went to Cairo to talk to a guy I knew, entirely without orders. It’s one of my charms and the reason I get...
Feb 7, 2014 | A Day In My Life
Rags is Charlotte Bessette’s Ragdoll cat I have an easy life. I no longer live on the streets. I’m no longer in scrapes, not that I ever caused them. I would hide in the alley, but there were other cats that tracked me down. One took a nip out of my ear. I don’t like...
Feb 6, 2014 | A Day In My Life
Being a former beauty queen and a private investigator can be problematic, but before you get any misconceptions about me, the pageant part was all my mother’s idea. If there’d been a way to enter me into those ghastly child contests before I was born, I would’ve been...
Feb 5, 2014 | A Day In My Life
I’m Lindy Blanchard and to tell the truth I can’t say there’s ever an ordinary day here in Riverville, Texas. Especially not on our pecan ranch, Rancho en el Colorado, where the pecan trees are big and old, the Colorado River sets the back curve of our fifty acres,...
