Feb 4, 2014 | A Day In My Life
Emma glanced at the “to do” list in her hand: Change the outfits on the mannequins in the shop Get a haircut Pick up some croissants for Sunday breakfast with Arabella and Francis Have dinner with Brian That last made her smile. Dinner with Brian was definitely...
Feb 3, 2014 | A Day In My Life
“Family is just accident…. They don’t mean to get on your nerves. They don’t even mean to be your family, they just are.” ~Marsha Norman You know what they say about family, you can’t live with ’em but you can’t live...
Feb 1, 2014 | A Day In My Life
My boss’s mother, Mama Bones Bonacelli, is on line one when I arrive at the office — some kind of confrontation with the Branchtown police. Oh, boy. Line two is that tight-assed cutie from the American Association of Securities Dealers, Ann Marie Talbot. A...
Jan 31, 2014 | A Day In My Life
A day in my life? Okay, well, I can tell you about today, but I’ll need to backtrack a bit. Now, keep in mind that my motto is “When life gives you lemons, make Limoncello.” But after the events of the past few weeks, I’m sort of inclined to skip the “making”...
Jan 30, 2014 | A Day In My Life
When I was a child growing up in Seville, Christians, Moors, and Jews still mingled in the narrow streets and markets of my beautiful city. But the shadow of the Inquisition was already upon us. I saw black Africans and Moors taken in the wars paraded through the...
Jan 29, 2014 | A Day In My Life
“I’m not boasting when I say I’ve got the smartest daughter in the world! Who wouldn’t be proud to have a daughter who zoomed off to Washington, D.C. to interview big whigs in Congress? I’m not going to lie. Over the eight years she worked for the Chicago Tribune,...
