Dec 19, 2023 | A Day In My Life
Something isn’t right with Eliza Hamilton. You might say a woman like me, Alice Rhodes, would not know enough about such a fine lady as her. But you’d be wrong. I had the good fortune of knowing her when I was just widowed and the good ladies of the Widow Society took...
Dec 18, 2023 | A Day In My Life
“Voila!” I said, just before the timer went off. After wiping the rim, I slid a plate loaded with one perfect mushroom crepe in front of my brother. Daniel picked up his fork and knife. I smacked his hands with my kitchen towel. “Take a moment to appreciate it before...
Dec 15, 2023 | A Day In My Life
I awake with a start, blanketed in darkness, my heart racing, my breath labored, with the last vestiges of a horrifying scene imprinted on my mind. Nighttime. A heavily wooded area. The headlights of a large dark-colored truck illuminate a hooded figure, cloaked in...
Dec 14, 2023 | A Day In My Life
Good morning, Gentle Reader, and welcome to London on the 5th of May, 1926. The General Strike started yesterday, and quite a lot of Town is at a standstill this morning. In the words of the Cheshire Cat, “we’re all mad here.” I moved to London with my cousin and best...
Dec 13, 2023 | A Day In My Life
I look out through the rain-streaked windshield of my Subaru Forester and feel as glum as the flat gray skies over Lake Erie. On the seat next to me, a stack of postcards have shifted from the neat pile I’d placed there and now resemble a flattened staircase. Or a...
Dec 12, 2023 | A Day In My Life
My life looks quite different these days. Up until recently, I’d been working in Washington, D.C. with the Library of Congress as a rare books librarian. Now I’m staying with my sister Azalea in Rose Mallow, a small town on the Chesapeake Bay. We used to spend every...
