We are almost finished packing.  This is going to be an amazing move, back to where my literary "career" began - in the English Department of St. Katharine's School:  in 1965.

Now I am going back to school - literally.  I am returning to live in my old school, which has been turned into senior apartments and mine is what you see in the photograph.  I am in the Library.  My wonderful place of refuge as a young person.  And it's right below what was the English Dept. led by Miss Maude May Craigmiles.  She had two PhDs and three Masters Degrees.  I've never known anyone like her.  She would always say, "Take out a piece of paper which you will not hand in."  That was so funny to me!  But she was such a stickler for proper spelling, grammar, syntax, etc., that it transferred to all of us who would become involved in the literary world.  I can be classified as a 'grammar nazi' - and I know several of us who are.  And it's all thanks to this very lovely woman who taught us well.

So this is where I am being planted and I will bloom...I trust the soil will be fertile.  I have 18 books to complete now, with three almost ready to drop.  Very excited!!!  Stay tuned for all the latest from The Scriptorium at Cambria Place, a/k/a St. Katharine's School...and now St. Katharine's Senior Apartments.

And I have a porch!!