It’s a weird and yet very happy feeling that I’m looking at my 50% and 25% DNA matches in this picture.

On my cabin walls

I didn’t buy much in the way of new clothes for a year. But masks? Boy, did I buy a lot of masks.

This is one of my favorites.

I enjoyed wearing it on our daily walks.

I’m enjoying not wearing it on our daily walks even more.

The Highlights Foundation campus is open again! I’m doing a 4-day personal retreat. I’ll have my own cabin! I’ll walk through the meadow! I’ll eat great food! I’ll read!

Oh, yeah. I will probably write too, because that’s supposed to be the point.

In all seriousness*, the timing is perfect. I’m at that point in revising that I’m not only searching for missing puzzle pieces, I’m smashing some of the ones I already have.

*Possibly a first for me. Savor it while you can.

Most important events of the last two weeks

1. Got to LA and Hastings-on-Hudson to see both sons and families.
2. Found great coffee places in both*

*Because how do you write without great coffee?

PS. That’s not me in the photo**

**Feel better now?

This is my son the actor/director/writer/singer’s* latest project.

https://www.michaelmeirsaltzman.com/bio

The rest of his website is pretty cool too.

*And a bunch of things I can’t remember, because my head is filled with pollen.

1. 2 dinners at restaurants (outside of course).
2. Ditto my favorite coffee/writing spot
3. No longer afraid when a maskless person walks past me
4. Made plans to see

For the first time since February, 2020, my husband and I had iced lattés on the plaza of my favorite writing spot. They had only one doughnut left, but who cares?*

Ok, maybe I cared a little.

Is there a truffle exception for Valentine’s Day? My husband gave me a box this morning. I’ve already eaten four. It’s only 2pm.

Yes, an agent actually asked me for the full manuscript a couple of days ago! She said my sample was great! Because I’m a writer, I’ve already shifted into the “Now she’s reading it and saying to herself, ‘what was I thinking when I asked for this?” stage But I’m not going to linger on that. Instead, I’m going to watch a video of a zoom session between a kitten, a lawyer, and a judge over and over again.