Have been working and...

OK, so I skived off (a Scottish term for playing hooky) for the past week, going out of town and having a fabulous time, but I did do some writing before I left, and I am working on more now. This summer is incredibly ripe with new and old experiences, much grist for the mill. This woman is rarin' to go now! I am also in the middle of four books (bad planning on my part) so it's a tussle between reading and writing. One novel, and three nonfiction. Just finished Cormac McCarthy's "No Country for Old Men." Full of unremitting violence, but still the tenderness and incredibly wonderful writing which drew me to him when I read his Border Trilogy. The man knows how to make you love his characters and then wrench them away from you when you least expect it. And his descriptions of setting are so vivid that you can see the action clearly, in all the heat and the dust.

OK, onto the next project. I mean it this time! I intend to make full use of my remaining three and half weeks of summer before I return to the grindstone on August 23.