5/27/19, “Memorial Day”

Hi Everyone,

Well, Summer is finally officially (or almost) here. Although the actual first day of Summer is still a little more than 3 weeks away, Summer always really starts with the Memorial Day holiday. And here we are. Warm weather starts happening everywhere around now, and people with weekend or summer homes start getting them de-winterized and ready for summer. Every year I spend the better part of a week before this weekend, helping my children get their summer house ready for the summer, and where they’ll be spending time together, and entertaining their friends. My husband and I used to work hard on that project, washing, cleaning, getting things painted and refreshed. Houses take a beating in the winter, and I love projects like that where you can actually SEE the evidence of your hard manual labor after a few days. And I particularly love the time I spend doing it with one of my daughters every year, and unfortunately, I missed it this year, and was really sorry not to have the chance to do it with her!!! I won’t miss it next year!!!

If you haven’t read my new book “Blessing in Disguise”, I hope you will—-it’s about a mother and her three adult daughters, each one by a different father, at a different time in her life, how different those 3 daughters are, and her relationship with them.

In a couple of weeks, I’ll have another new hardcover out, “Lost and Found”, which is the story of a woman who has adult children, a big career as a photographer, she breaks her ankle, which slows her down briefly and causes her to take stock of her life, remembering the three men she loved and left for various reasons and never married. In retrospect, she wonders if her decisions were right in each case. She decides to take a road trip across the US, from New York to Boston to Chicago to Wyoming, to look up those men, more than twenty years later—-and it’s about what she discovers about them and herself, and who she meets along the way. It seems like a fun summer book, as she drives across the country, to answer any lingering questions and put the past to rest. I’ll bet a lot of us would like to take a trip back into the past, and see if we’re happy with the way things turned out.

I’ve been working on a new book, and doing some editing, which keeps me busy!!!

Have a great Memorial Day weekend, and I hope this is the beginning of your BEST summer ever!!!

love, Danielle