Apr 30, 2024 | A Day In My Life
A typical day in my life begins with me waking up in Venice Beach, California three minutes before my alarm goes off wondering why it’s so dark. Is it three A.M.? Do I have something I have to do today? Can I go back to sleep? Oh, it’s 6:57. But why is it so dark? Is...
Apr 29, 2024 | A Day In My Life
If I could play bingo all day, I would, and that’s what I thought retirement was going to be for me—Bingo. That’s it. At sixty-seven years old, I deserved that much. But then my eldest sister was murdered in her small Californian coastal town and before I realized...
Apr 25, 2024 | A Day In My Life
Occupation: Obituary Writer “Oh good, you aren’t dead,” said my friend Carla when I snatched up my cell phone to stop the eerie ringtone I downloaded last Halloween. Peering groggily at the time, I wondered why my friend who works at the local funeral home was calling...