Feb 22, 2012 | A Day In My Life
This blog was supposed to be about Candy Holliday. Why does everything have to be about Candy Holliday? Her life is not that interesting. First of all, she wears the same jeans and yellow fleece jacket everywhere she goes. How boring is that? I wear striking bold...
Feb 20, 2012 | A Day In My Life
I’d been escorting a tour group of local seniors through Helsinki, Finland, when my mom phoned to tell me that my hometown of Windsor City, Iowa, had been flattened by an F4 tornado. To make matters worse, the reception hall for my upcoming nuptials ended up in...
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,...
