Luckily most of the Executive Committee members were busy people, and they appreciated brevity. I hoped it would be a short meeting, and at least I had no catastrophes to report, no crises to resolve. Just business as usual, as we slid into the new calendar year. I had just gotten my head back in...
“Hi, Meg,” her mother said, shaking water from her coat. “I didn’t think New England weather could change so fast! One minute it was lovely, and the next, whoosh!” “You should have been here for the hailstorm last month,” Meg said. “Good heavens! How frightening. Was there any damage?” “No, my or...
It seemed to me as though some undefined boundary had been crossed. Before now, our relationship had taken place exclusively on his home turf in the city. I could understand his need for room to let the lovely Jaguar prowl, but I wondered which had come first: borrowing the Jaguar or wanting to c...
Without their help this book and series would never have seen the light of day. But for this particular book I also need to thank an unlikely pair of organizations which inspired the story: The Daughters of the American Revolution and the United States Department of Agriculture. A couple of years...