Post #72 – Women’s Memoirs, Book Business – Kendra Bonnett and Matilda Butler
I love Easter. The snow is gone, the grass is more green than brown and the buds are starting to pop. The daffodils are out, and the tulips will soon follow.
The landscape is conducive to the Easter Bunny finding my yard and leaving lovely eggs, lots of chocolate malt eggs and Peeps…plenty of Peeps. And in neon colors not seen in nature. Easter, even more than Memorial Day is the beginning of my favorite time of year. Spring is definitely here. No more backsliding into winter, and summer is just around the corner.
As I’m finding, however, Easter in Maine is not quite so springlike. One year we built snow bunnies on Easter…from fresh snow too. And this year the grass is still brown. I was glad, therefore, to escape to Connecticut for a long weekend where the grass IS green and Easter Sunday, despite some rain, was a balmy, shirt-sleeves day.
Alas, today I’m on the road, driving back to Maine, but I know that warmer weather is only a few weeks away. The drive will be pretty much an all-day event. With gas selling at $4.09 here, I won’t be speeding. But even though I’ll be driving today, I wanted to post a quick article for you. A couple of weeks ago, a Women’s Memoirs reader, Andrea McDougal, dropped me a line to tell me about a piece she wrote that compiled 25 different blogs for “editing geeks,” as she calls them. [click to continue…]
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