time and again

I finished reading Jack Finney's novel
TIME AND AGAIN. I'm a sucker for
time travel stories and this is a good one.
Now if only we could go back in time to
when the library had a Mendery so I could
repair this library book. It has those tape
corners that are not the ideal way to preserve
a book. I do miss that kind of work and hope
there are still libraries that mend their books.
Oh, in Finney's book, Simon is being urged
to go back in time to avert the 1962 Cuban
crisis, an event that my sequel to Roosevelt
also hinges on. I'm nearly finished editing
that book. Fred is eager to do illustrations.

seashore sideshow

courtesy of my son:

vashon island

schweinhund

topography

First morning light on the Chuckanut Hills
at the end of our street. I was setting out
the recycle bins and garbage can and ran
back inside for the camera.

stories

Met with Fred twice this week. We're doing work on
the next book for Good Deed Rain. It's a GIGANTIC
collection of short stories, so far clocking in around
450 pages, covering 33 years, from 1982-2015.
Complete with illustrations, original notebook pages
and rejection letters. Here's a handwritten excerpt
from 1992:

movie time

Watched an old favorite, Woody Allen's

PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO. It's always 

a magical moment when Tom Baxter looks

off the screen, "My God, you must really 

love this picture!" I also saw this movie a 

bunch of times when it came out in 1985

and I used to see movies over and over 

in hopes.