Shamed over his dismissal of the letters to begin with, Sam had grudgingly acknowledged that the positions sometimes intersected, and I was in the best position to know when that was an advantage. In return, I’d sweetly agreed to call him to decide when there was a “situation” l...
Our office manager, Margaret Atkinson, had taken a well-deserved day off. It was pleasant to work when there was no one else around. Last spring all of the Fiene family’s systems had undergone a major upheaval. The first move had been to hire Zola. The second step was to put Margaret in charge of...
We were all miserable. Keith likes to be in charge and make things happen, but he was trapped by trivia. Spending bored days behind a desk, thinking they couldn’t go on forever, but they could. Josie was driving Keith’s pickup, backtracking to locate petitioners willing to take charge...
