September 19, 2007

• Hey, friends,
  Boy, have I been missing my wireless laptop, which is like my right arm! Its power source died a week ago, and we had to order a new cord from Dell, which finally arrived today...yay!
  Our big and wonderful news is that my sweetheart is about to become a published novelist! He's been writing all his life, and several years ago completed a delightful novel based on some of his father's memories of growing up in Arkansas during the early part of the 1900s. It's a series of letters between a girl, who moves with her family away from Boston to the frontier in Arkansas, and her male friend back in Boston. Anyway, D would never pursue trying to get it published, even though everyone who ever read it loved it and urged him to.
  I met a woman via the newspaper, an English teacher from Mississippi, originally, as a matter of fact (a bond between us!) who has a small publishing company here in Arkansas, and when I told her about D's manuscript, she graciously offered to read it. And just a few days ago, we heard from her that she wants to publish in next year. We are both so excited about it.
  I plan to write more soon. I have lots of pictures to share, and this week's column. But for now, here's a photo to make you smile. We had to order Hagrid an extra-large doggie crate, because he had already outgrown the one we had. He was scared to go in it last night when Doyle got it all set up, I guess because it smelled unfamiliar. So I got in first.
  
  

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