Oct 14, 2011 | A Day In My Life
Did you ever look back on your life and want to just slap yourself? Yeah, that pretty much describes how I felt explaining to my editor at the Ranchero Globe why I ended up in a small town fifty miles north of Dallas writing personals when I’d graduated several years...
Oct 13, 2011 | A Day In My Life
I have a good life in Saltlick, Texas. It’s a great place to live with lots of friendly people. For the most part. I wait tables at my Uncle Huey’s diner, Huey’s Hash. It’s hard work, but Mother doesn’t hold with people who shirk hard...
Oct 12, 2011 | A Day In My Life
You know those people who always win stuff? Radio call-in shows, door prizes, pull tabs, scratch offs—they can’t help but get lucky? Well, I’m the yin to their yang, the shadow to their light. Their luck brings them money, concert tickets, and fruit baskets, and mine...
Oct 11, 2011 | A Day In My Life
“We’d probably never be friends if it weren’t for Margaret Grace,” Gerry said. “You mean Ada Madison,” Sophie replied. Since they had a common friend (whose real name was Camille Minichino) Gerry Porter and Sophie Knowles decided to...
Oct 10, 2011 | A Day In My Life
My name is Skye Denison and I’m a school psychologist in rural Scumble River, Illinois (population a bit over 3000). I like to say that my hometown is seventy-five miles south of Chicago and seventy-five years behind the times. At thirty-six, I never thought I would...
Oct 6, 2011 | A Day In My Life
Hello. I’m Lauren Vancouver. Who am I? Well, I save pets. That’s the most important thing to me–except for my two college-age kids, of course. But they understand how their mother is driven to take care of homeless or abused animals and find them new forever...
