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A Personalized Approach to Finding Your Perfect Nanny After serving as a nanny herself(13yrs for the same family), Heather, co-founder of Classic Nannies’, primary objective has been to bring families and top-tier nannies together into the same...

Barbara Drechsel’s story begins with a mystery. Who is this beautiful young woman?  Is it Barbara? Let this be a lesson – write on the back of every photograph you own, preferably in pencil – but do it one way or the other. Crayon would be better than...

Authors Note. In a creative writing class I attended there were some who were there for the specific reason of writing an autobiographical account of their lives. When they did so they found it to be bland and uninteresting. I suggested that they needed...

On the occasion of William H. Gass’s birthday, I’ve cherry-picked sentences from all of his books: a publishing career spanning five decades. This was no easy task, since his fictions and essays and interviews are troves of meticulously rendered, seemingly...

When Detective Webster Coninck arrives at the murder scene outside Tups Tavern, he quickly identifies the body: Tom Johanssen. Former classmate, full of charisma, and a man with enough enemies to line up interviews into next week. Webb finds himself...