Jun 8, 2017 | A Day In My Life
My mother likes to say she was born singing. But me? Maybe I was, maybe I wasn’t. The only people who know haven’t seen me since I was born, in China, twenty-two years ago. By the time my parents got me and brought me to this country, I hadn’t spoken a word in months....
Oct 14, 2016 | A Day In My Life
I have lived a good life. A long one—I won’t tell you just how long, because a man’s got to keep some things to himself. I miss my wife and my son every minute of every day, but my heart just about bursts when I think of my two girls—they’re past fifty, each of ’em,...
Dec 25, 2015 | A Day In My Life
I will be the first to admit, I’m no saint. I have a terrible temper. I am impatient beyond belief with stupid employees. Stupid customers, I can handle—you run a restaurant, you run into idiots who think it’s funny to joke that the salmon mousse doesn’t have antlers...
Jul 16, 2015 | A Day In My Life
I need a motto. Everyone in Jewel Bay, Montana has one. Erin Murphy, my boss and the manager of Glacier Mercantile, aka the Merc, likes to say “If it’s made in Montana, it must be good.” Her sister, Chiara (say her name with a hard C and rhyme it with tiara), runs a...
