July 2009

July, 2009     Mid-summer heat has us all tah'rd here in Savannah, but that hasn't stopped many of my good friends from hosting book parties for me. We all had a wonderful time on July 5th at Lisa Callahan's lovely home on Tybee where, among other things, we all ate some of Lisa's delicious homemade bread washed down with sweet, iced, herbed tea. (Lucky us!) And I'm looking forward to just as much fun on July 16th when Peri and Demetre Kyriacos hold the same kind of event at their charming house in Savannah. My friends are all stepping up with parties because next month I'm on the move once again – this time to Florida in the town of Spring Hill near Tampa. I'll be living there with my daughter and her family and settling down to some productive writing on my next book. I admit to dreading the moving part (hard work!), but am looking forward to being settled. I've thoroughly enjoyed my stay here with dear friend Christy Pingel, but it's time to get down to some serious  writing again (as "serious" as I get) and I've learned that I need my "stuff" around me to accomplish that. Back in June I sold books at a Chamber of Commerce Trade Show event at the invite of all the good folks at PressWorks (the same folks who did such a wonderful job at printing my books in the first place.) I also spoke to seniors groups at several different Savannah churches in June and, as always, enjoyed them tremendously. I do very well with seniors groups since now "I are one." And I'm on Facebook now, but I've yet to see much advantage to it over plain email. If you think differently – please share! J Finally, my Savannah "Peeps" need to know that, after my upcoming move and settling in, I fully intend to climb aboard an Amtrak train every other month to come "home" for a visit with friends and family.