Feb 17, 2012 | A Day In My Life
I’m a mom living in the quaint suburban town of Rustic Woods. Many of my days go something like this: I have one headache, two doctor’s visits to reschedule, three daughters giving me the evil eye, four piles of clean laundry screaming to be folded, and five minutes...
Feb 15, 2012 | A Day In My Life
When a nun leaves the convent, it’s called “jumping the wall.” There really was a wall at the Motherhouse—that’s the place where young nuns get trained and old nuns go to die—but I just walked out the door when I left. I thought that would be it, you know. After ten...
Feb 13, 2012 | A Day In My Life
My days are very different now than they were a year ago. Back then, I worked as a low-grade sous chef at my uncle’s Albuquerque restaurant. Now I’m using my training as a pastry chef and cake artist to run Zydeco Cakes, one of New Orleans’ premiere bakeries. It’s a...
Feb 10, 2012 | A Day In My Life
I’m Metropolitan Police Lieutenant Sam Holland, and my day often begins in the dead of night when dispatch calls to tell me we’ve got another homicide in the District of Columbia. Middle-of the night phone calls never bothered me until recently. Since I married Nick,...
Feb 9, 2012 | A Day In My Life
“What have you been doing for the last two years?” the editor said from across his desk, looking out from over top his glasses. “As I said,” Annie replied. “I’ve been at home with my boys. I’ve freelanced occasionally, tried to keep my fingers in the business.” And...
Feb 7, 2012 | A Day In My Life
If I hadn’t lost my job at The Dunston Herald, I’d still be writing articles about church bazaars and Girl Scout cookie sales. Now, instead, I get to read for a living. Who wouldn’t rather do that? As an intern at A Novel Idea, I’m part of a thriving literary agency...
