Rooting for the Criminal

Rooting for the Criminal

I was fifteen years old when I saw the movie, The Day of the Jackal, based on the novel by Frederick Forsyth. The plot detailed an attempted assassination of Charles DeGalle in 1962. I found myself rooting for the criminal, a good-looking guy in a James Bond sort of...
The Cutter’s Widow

The Cutter’s Widow

Grief Ella is a newlywed, living and working in Saint Paul, MN in 1915.  She had her husband work at a shirtwaist factory that mass-produces women’s work blouses. Connor works as a cutter and Ella is part of the sewing-line brigade.  A cutter stacks multiple layers of...