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Saturday, March 4, 2023

2023 Been A While -It's been one of those days for 4 Years


 It’s Been One of These Days for 4 Years


 

 

Thinking about everything since my last blog post, March 3, 2019, a massive writer’s block, this stared me in the face.

Almost 4 years to the day, I blogged about one of my favorite pet peeves: daylight savings. I went without this changeover for forty years until my kids persuaded me to move to Missouri. I went through the ritual. I could never remember if was it spring back/spring forward, fall back/fall forward. The ditty confused me. I am very short 5’2”, so I would have to drag out a ladder and fix the analog clocks. The digital clocks were not much problem because of electrical storms in the mountains the electricity was constantly disrupted. After Congress passed a bill leaving DST in the dust, the House has yet to pass it, then it goes to be signed by the President. At the current state of chaos in the House it is doubtful they will agree on anything.

The other blog concerned a snow day in Northern Arizona, which exactly mirrors the schools in Northern Arizona closed today. The main highway I-40 closed to travel. 4 major snowstorms have slammed Northern Arizona in the past month. When you live in the mountains of Northern Arizona, you pay attention to snow levels. If it’s 10,000 feet, most roads are open. If, however, it’s 4,000 feet, no one is going anywhere and major highways and schools shut down. My family teases me about my fascination with weather, but for 40 years, I drove all over the mountains of Northern Arizona, crisscrossing the Mogollon Rim from the lower Salt River and the White Mountains to the Grand Canyon. I checked the weather, stuffed emergency supplies, and always knew it could change for the worse in a minute.

Therefore, in the passing years, I have written 3 rough drafts: Book 3 Dance, Book 4 Mailbox, and Book 5 Church. I have found an excellent cover artist and formatter. My wonderful editor died a week after editing Book 2 Salon. I miss her so very much. Other friends died during the pandemic. It cut me off from human contact. No author signings, no meetings to share ideas, no libraries, no bookstores, isolated from family, no trips, no flying, closures, arguments,  etc. as we all lived through. This fall 2022 was my first book signing. Wonderful! I’ve been debating whether to cover the pandemic in my book 3, but after much thinking, I wrote about the aftermath, and how it affected small towns and people. My little group of people in Black Mesa survived, as did most people. However, restrictions were finally lifted and we face many challenges.

Life is still not back to our naïve open society.  We took for granted the little pleasures of life. Walking in a park, seeing a play, going out for coffee, baby kisses, checking a book out at a library, hugs, and family meals.

I'm celebrating this week by offering my ebooks: Book 1 Murder@ the Black Mesa Cafe and Book 2 Murder@ the Black Mesa Salon for FREE Worldwide From March 5-11 2023. 
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