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**First, an apology for all the typos in my last note. I was clearly suffering from heat-induced grammatical stroke**
So, last we chatted, I was sweltering in Florida, with no Air Conditioning.
Oh wait, no, HUBS was sweltering. I was at a writer’s conference with this cutie. (Sarah, who wrote THIS book,
I know it’s been a hot minute since we last chatted – mostly because after the Great Flood of our Northern Home, we spend the week packing all our belonging…
And then we got into the car and headed south…
And arrived in Iowa in time to read stories to this cutie…
All.
I know – it’s been a couple weeks since we last chatted. I was over in Greece, taking a nice vacation upon the deep blue Aegean waters. (if you didn’t see the pictures, head over to my personal Facebook page! Lots of goodies there).
My daughter, (who you heard from last week), jokes that whenever we leave (and she watches our dogs),
Surprise! It’s Me, Sarah, Susie‘s assistant!
As I’m sure you know by now, Susie is off in her happy place: Traveling the world with her Hubs while eating gyros and ice cream.
And while Susie is off in her happy place, I’m in mine:
That’s right! That’s FOUR dogs.
Football has started!
If you know me, you know I love me my football –
Probably because I had two sons who played football, and spent hours upon hours for years upon years driving them to games. And then of course they had to play basketball and then run track and…
But in truth,
Happy Tuesday!
Hope you had a great weekend. We have friends over on Friday night…and did this.
Saturday we cleaned the garage, and fell into an exhausted sweaty heap in front of the television on Saturday night. Sunday, we followed our son, like groupies, to his latest pulpit fill gig and got another fantastic sermon from some obscure passage.
You know what? I did a thing. A big thing. A “Susan-couldn’t-stand-to-make-people-wait-any-longer” thing.
I published Steinbeck A MONTH EARLY!
I know, I know. The original release date for the store wasn’t until next month, and honestly? I hate waiting too.
I feel a little like JoJo here when I have to wait.
So, you know when your kid does something awesome, and you just want to tell someone?
Here I am, just a mom, telling you about my awesome kid.
Who is in her early thirties with her own adorable children. (Wait. That can’t be true. It just can’t!)
I have to admit,
So, there I was, having my morning quiet time when This Happened.
That’s Jubal, my 100 pound lap dog, cuddling up with me because there are Thunderstorms Over Head.
He’s such a big chicken. But I get it—when you’re afraid, it helps to cuddle up with someone to endure it together,
Happy Friday!
It’s that Friday where I share a bit of my heart. (So if you want to skip to the free book at the bottom, this is your chance. )
It’s been a week over here in the Susan May Warren office. Lots of editing going on for a book coming out next summer (an awesome trilogy about Summer Rangers working in the Grand Canyon.