Where has the time gone?
Well, sorry about being absent from posting this long, but I've been a bit busy. Lots of things have happened in the past month or so. Let's see if I can get the major items down for you...
Our newest great grand baby, Mason Christopher Fletcher was born to our granddaughter Caitlyn and her husband Chad. He's a big boy...lots of hair and a real cutie! He lives in the snowy and cold NE and we will be going back to officially meet him in a few weeks. Caitlyn was our first grandchild and so, it's come full circle. Life has a way of doing that.
My brother-in-law Don McFarren died shortly after Christmas. He was deteriorating slowly and his wonderful family, my sister Ann (who I use as the basis for Louisa May McFadden...Don was Danny McFadden in The Falls series) her four kids and a host of grandchildren were all there, surrounding him lovingly, singing to him as he went. Don loved his family, sports, and music. He loved to sing and play his guitar and he was a big fan of the Yankees, the NY football Giants and the Rutland High Red Raiders, his home town high school team. He worked the art show circuit around New England, especially Vermont, for over fifty years with my sister. He will be missed.
The trip back to be there for his calling hours and funeral was harried to say the least. We found ourselves in the middle of the winter blizzard and cold streak that came through Thursday January 4th. We got diverted to Dulles on a flight to JFK that morning and it went downhill from there. We were placed on buses and driven to JFK by Jet Blue...a five hour trip. Only to find JFK a madhouse of cancelled flights and closed airport and angry, distraught customers. Four o'clock the next morning we took off in a rented Jeep and drove the final leg to Vermont, getting there just in time for the last half hour of calling hours and then the funeral. But we made it. I had promise my sister we'd be there...and we kept that promise.
On the way back, we had a three hour delay from JFK to West Palm Beach. All in all...not flying during winter storms ever again. We used to live in Vermont, but it was -17 the morning after the funeral. Nope. I don;'t mind a little snow and some dips in the thermometer, but that was outrageous.
Have my name in for the annual Port St Lucie Library Book Fair where local authors come out to be in book shows on March 17th. Hopefully, I will be one ion the participants. I will let you know.
The Falls: Slave Trade is at CreateSpace being processed into a paperback and I'm doing the last edits on The Falls: Sanctuary paperback at the moment. Currently editing The Falls: One Friday Night, the 30th in the series. It will be out in Kindle format soon! It's all about a homecoming football game and what happens to the star running back. Harry Caldwell makes his return as well! Not only that but Sean, William, Serafina and Maggie Barnes taker off on an adventure searching for treasure!
So, you can see, I've been busy. Hope you'll forgive my tardiness in posting this. Have a great New year and don't forget to return to The Falls now and then! May the dragons watch over you...
