Deborah Kerr

I wanted to honor the memory of Deborah Kerr today--she was a wonderful actress and played Anna in "The King and I." My grandmother and I ALWAYS watched that movie whenever it was on TV.

I'm pleased to say that I am plowing through a difficult scene in The Strega's Story, like one word at a time, practically. I feel I have to become even more isolated from friends, activities, and family than I already am in order to finish this, so I have curtailed a lot of things this month. I'm hoping it doesn't last long. I think the one regret I have about this book is that I wish I hadn't written it so randomly at first--I pretty much had to reconstruct everything I had written as a student at State in order to get the book to flow better.
It's been an exercise in what not to do next time, so that was a good learning experience--but it took two years to undo!

Well, the Ponderosa is decorated for Halloween, about 3/4 of the way through. My kids always like this, even though they are grown up, nearly--my youngest will be 18 in December. Still, it seems one can never shake all the growing-up traditions.

I hope to have less dull posts soon, but for now, I'm mired in an ocean of revision and writing--a full-on book is such hard work, and I hope I have it in me to do another one after this!