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,...
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...