Mabel Hartley returns to me today

She’s been gone all summer and now she’s back. Oh how I’ve missed my favorite treasure hunter. Surprisingly, I started with Book 5 today and it got me all tingle-tangled up in glorious author-completely-lose-track-of-time-mode. Which is so much better than anything else I’ve ever done because I feel like I’m making progress. Helping Mabel figure […]

Return to Myself

My kids went back to school today, after a teacher’s strike that seemed to last an eternity…3 months of our children 9 and 7 in the house, so yes, an eternity. And today they went back to their school community of friends, teachers, librarians and I went back to my life too. A visit with […]