Recent Book Activity

Last year I couldn't even spell AWTHER and now I are one!

Books? We go waaaay back. Even as a toddler I clutched books to my chest and carried them around the house with me. It's as if I knew how important they would become to me. I learned to read before first grade and never stopped. Nights, weekends, and summers were filled with books, stacks of books and reading programs, and afternoons spent in the Children's Room at the library. Bliss, and more bliss, when I found just the right book and read it twice for good measure.

I still turn to books. You can chart my progress through life, the chapters perhaps, in my sagging bookshelves. There are field guides there, engraving books over there, fantasies to fill my dreams and waking hours with magic, and this rather large pile right next to the computer is all about gravestones and colonial history.

And right on top - is my book. Imagine that, never thought I'd join the ranks of published authors, but there it is. When I couldn't find what I wanted to know I knew I'd found a tiny little niche and I filled it with everything I found fascinating and bookworthy.

It's a good feeling knowing that my words and thoughts will be preserved for other kindred spirits in the same library where I spent my happiest childhood moments.

I feel like I've released a message in a bottle into the future.

If you would like a copy of West Springfield Massachusets: Stories Carved in Stone it is currently available at Dog Pond Press as well as amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com