Feb 8, 2024 | Get To Know You
Mercedes sits down for a question-and-answer session with dru’s book musings so that we can learn more about what makes her tick. Let’s see what she has to say. What is your full name? Mercedes Spivey. In Cuba, my full name was Mercedes Montero Rojas. How old are you?...
Dec 14, 2021 | A Day In My Life
Buenas tardes. I’m Mercy Spivey, but that’s just my most recent name. In Cuba, my birth place, I was Mercedes Montero Rojas. Everybody called me Merceditas, which I prefer. The ending “ita” gives it an affectionate feel, even if all you’re doing is asking me for a...
May 4, 2020 | A Day In My Life
I’ve spent my whole life on an island thirty miles off the East Coast, the tail-end of a glacial moraine left behind by the last Ice Age. Nantucket is roughly fifteen miles long and maybe five miles wide; lashed by nor-easters in winter, when all sound except the...
Jan 10, 2018 | A Day In My Life
Is it already seven o’clock? I’ve hardly slept! I was up too late drinking coffee and talking politics with Pappa yesterday evening. The Britishers have put Gandhiji in prison again, and Pappa doesn’t know if it’s wise to add his name to the list of lawyers decrying...
Sep 16, 2017 | A Day In My Life
A day in the life? That is quite a challenge for any colleague of Captain Billy Boyle. There is seldom a normal day to be had at the Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Forces. And when we are out on assignment, every day is different. And often deadly. But...