Cassie’s Good Day Keeps Getting … Better?
Gunnar Olafsson I was being honest with Bernie – I really didn’t know what Bitsy and Wanda were plotting, though I was, of course, tragically curious. Those two in a booth, a…
Cassie Cunningham, Proprietor The Riverside
Partnership: Cassie Wonders If It’s All That
Mid-morning behind the bar is a little slow. Not feeling particularly ambitions or energetic today. There’s not much for me to do without customers right now. So far, my achievements…
Wanda Steps In & Steps Up … to the Bar
Dad used to call it “resting bartender face,” the look he’d have when business was slow and he was forced to talk to patrons he either didn’t know or didn’t…
Bitsy’s Book Club is Bagging New Blood
Jenny Page Historically, I’m a person who loves the holiday season – the lights, the festive atmosphere. Everyone is drinking, and that’s always a good thing for the bar. It’s a wonderful…
Cassie’s Deal with the Devil on the (Not-so) Deep (Not-so) Blue Chickotee
Madam’s morning voice message chirped like an overly-caffeinated mockingbird. “Cassie, darling … it’s the Madam calling. So sorry the book club hadn’t been by the restaurant in a few weeks…
Cassie’s Crackpot Karma
The day before I left Mick in New York, I became uncontrollably ill. I wasn’t sure if it was a virus or if it was just the uncertainty of how…
Riverside Blues: Notes from a Tuesday Night Bar Stool
Is there a real world around here anymore? Mick’s dead, we don’t know the answers to the body-part questions, Sheriff Paul has become a little too comfy on my bar…
Cassie & John Conspire, As They Dream By the Fire
The only thing I could bring myself to thank God for this holiday was the distraction all this murder talk brought to the bar. That and the blazing fireplace that…
Mick & the Misses …
To quote the great Juliette Barnes in Nashville, “Trouble is a guy with the guitar in the next bar.” Or my bar. (Sidenote: Nashville was an amazing show! Someone bring…
Rainy Days & Ex-Husbands
Cassie has a chance meeting ...