So the older I get, the homebodier I become. (Yes, I made up that word. But I think it works, right?) My natural habitat is a desk chair, a cold cup of coffee, and a half-written manuscript. I love my office/writing cave. It doesn’t judge me for wearing pajamas at 2 in the afternoon.
But twice this year,
Okay, it’s been HOT this week at our house. Mostly because today, we discovered our bedroom AC wasn’t working. Whoops.
But here’s the thing. We just got back from our epic trip out east for the family reunion (last weeks news!) and staying with a writer friend, (also last week) and then made an epic one-day stopover in Phili to hang around constitution square.
I’m writing this newsletter from my author friend Tracy Higley’s backyard, and friends—it is gorgeous out here. Rolling green hills, birdsong, a summer breeze… it’s the kind of place that makes a writer want to linger over her coffee and call it “research.”
Tracy has been the most gracious host—she’s even been on a personal mission to keep the sun off me (see photographic evidence below ).
I’m currently in Pennsylvania. At a cabin nestled in the beautiful forests of southern Pennsylvania. As I made my coffee this morning, I caught this deer in the backyard.
I love this part of the US – my imagination goes wild with the history. As we drove through winding roads and lush forest,
So here’s the thing. I’m sort of a homebody. I mean, in the way that a homebody likes to travel the world, but I when I’m home, I’m home. I don’t do a lot of book clubs or signings or things like that. Mostly because I’m really busy, but also, it required putting on makeup.
I’m still working on a new book, so this is just a quick Friday note, with a few happy things.
1. This shot of my flower bed. I nearly pulled all those yellow primroses this spring because they’d spread so much I thought they were weeds! Goes to show you that patience is a good thing…
2.
Happy Friday!
Okay, so. Last weekend, I did a thing. A thing I’ve been waiting to do for a long time.
No, don’t get excited. I didn’t purchase a sailboat and traverse the world. (Not that thing, the other thing!)
I stained my office door.
What,
I know we didn’t chat last week. I blame my daughter, who went on vacation, and my current story which sucked me in and wouldn’t let me go. (in a good way. )
She did, however, send me this darling pix of JoJo.
That right there is a girl who knows exactly what she loves,
I dunno about you, but I’m ready for the weekend.
I spend the first week of every month doing all my non-writing work – all my accounting, analyzing and creating advertising, line edits, reading books for editorial feedback (for Sunrise Publishing), sometimes reading books for endorsement, and organizing tasks for the rest of the month.