Blog Tour With Betsy Livingston by Teresa Trent

I sipped at my coffee as I thought about my day. It was going to be another busy one. I was headed over to the diner to give a talk on my latest column, “Casseroles for Any Occasion”. I’m going to be handing out my recipe for Tator Tot Casserole....

Who is in Charge, Austin Carr or Jack Getze?

The big thing about living in a truck-mounted camper, you bump your head a lot. So when Chef Cruz startles me awake with repeated loud knocks, I crack my skull against the tin headliner for the third time in two days. Maybe I need a crash helmet. “You cannot do the...

Blog Tour With Brigid Kildare by Kate Eileen Shannon

Hi, my name is Brigid Kildare. I’m a PI. Not the Jim Rockford kind, I’m not into car chases and guns and all that. I do research. You know, like title searches, background checks, forensic audits, all sorts of data kind of stuff. But stuff just sort of happens around...

Enjoying A New Life With Jaye Saylor by Sharon Pape

Six months ago if you had asked me to describe a typical day in my life, you would have been bored to death in a matter of minutes. Back then I taught earth science at a middle school on Long Island. Yawning yet? From my new perspective, it even sounds dull to me. Had...

Life On-Stage (and Off) With Eli Marks by John Gaspard

This is probably not the best time to be writing this. I’m in the cramped Green Room just off-stage at the local Elk’s Club, waiting to be introduced. “Green Room” might be overstating the case; I think it became the Green Room when it was determined it was too small...

On The Lake With Brooke Breckenridge by I.C. Enger

I.C. Enger told us, Jack, Ed and me, that one of us can write a piece for “A Day in the Life” blog. Jack, as in Special Agent Jack Strickland of Homeland Security, said that if he did he’d have to shoot I.C. Agent Ed Red Wind, a real live Homeland Security Shadow...