Apr 10, 2018 | A Day In My Life
The a/c at the Last Ditch Motel is best described as symphonic. It’s not a classical symphony, mind you. It’s modern-atonal over jazz roots, with just a suggestion of someone dropping seven buckets down a fire escape. But I’m used to it now. The water pressure’s not...
Apr 9, 2018 | A Day In My Life
Please call me Charlee, though. Charlemagne is my fancy author’s name. I mean, really, who’d read a mystery by some pipsqueak named Charlee? I’ve been writing mysteries since college and was lucky enough to land a no-nonsense agent right after...
Apr 4, 2018 | A Day In My Life
A cup of coffee on my beach house deck, an ocean breeze, and the glittering Atlantic—my usual morning of Zen. Never believe the old adage: you can’t go home again. At the age of twenty-eight, after ten years of living in Manhattan, I am thrilled to be back in the...
Apr 3, 2018 | A Day In My Life
Hi! Dani Sloan here. I am the brand new owner of Chef-to-Go in Normalton, IL. Chef-to-Go is a sort of hybrid catering company. In addition to doing events, I rent myself out as a personal chef to wealthy couples who don’t know a waffle iron from a food processor and I...