Nov 6, 2020 | A Day In My Life
Less than sixty seconds after arriving home to my apartment, my next-door neighbor’s foster daughter knocked at my door. Bianca, a seventeen-year-old with a genius level IQ, was in her final semester of a computer science degree at George Washington University in DC....
Nov 3, 2020 | A Day In My Life
My mother says OCD stands for “Occasionally Complicated Daughter” which makes me laugh, because it’s true. Except for the “occasionally” part. I don’t try to be, but my recent OCD diagnosis put me into a bit of a tailspin. I mean, I had my life all planned out: good...
Oct 27, 2020 | A Day In My Life
Cheers! Penelope Parish here. I’m currently a writer in residence at the Open Book bookstore in Upper Chumley-on-Stoke, a charming town in Merrie Olde England. I’m working on my second Gothic novel—the first one became a best seller—and I’ve hit a writer’s block the...