Back on Track

Speaking of slight detours, I've taken one for the past couple of days. After a week of daily entries, I fell short yesterday, and missed the road completely. So, on this relatively quiet Sunday morning after all the craft show and author hoopla, it's nice to have a few minutes to reflect. The craft show goes one more day but doesn't start until noon today.

Yesterday was pretty crazy----finishing up introductions for ten authors, running books to the book store, visiting with the coffee cult, hurrying back to the Mall where Mother and I have a craft table, rushing home to read one more bit of information for an introduction and arriving back at the book store in time for the readings. I read from my "Ponderettes and Pie---Not a Good Mix" story and then introduced the rest.

Besides having the opportunity to introduce one former student who's an author and my journalism mentor Bob Hamilton, I came away thrilled to have met a couple of new faces (for me anyway) who have both impressive credentials and talent. I must recommend their works. John Remmer read from his Traplines: Coming Home to the Sawtooth Valley. He's a Harvard alum and a retired English professor from Albertson College. His book talks about his return to the gorgeous Sawtooth Valley, how he remembered it as a kid and how he was shocked at its change several decades later. Nice man. I look forward to corresponding with him.

The other author came late with his tail between his legs but left us eager to fetch a copy of his book and take it home to share as our most recent great discovery. His name is Terry Bain, and he's written a book called You Are a Dog: Life Through the Eyes of Man's Best Friend. The guy obviously loves reading his stories as much as he loved writing them.

The audience and other authors sat transfixed, except for some healthy giggles, as we listened to dogs' perspectives on the vacuum cleaner, puppydom and the sofa. There's a website about this author from Spokane who says he should have been hitting a tennis ball rather than writing. I disagree. He scored an ace with this one.

Young brother, you need to pick up this book! I just noticed, while searching out his address http://bainbooks.com/ that he's a blogger----er----would that be a dog blogger? I'm gonna tell Ebbie and Annie (our Black and golden Labs) about him. Maybe they can correspond with his pooches.