Hey, Tony,

Glad to see you here and thanks for posting. I have replied to several folks and apparently didn't hit the right key to "send." So I hope this post makes it. Glad to have Tony on board as one of "my friends." I'm accumulating a lot, which pleases me. I must confess that as a former kindergarten teacher, I have this compulsion to circle you all around me, and have you say something about yourself, so that others can know you and be friendly with you. Some old habits…

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It's all part of the dream -- a beach bar and book club on a tropical island. Who wouldn't like that! This pix was taken on one of the tiny, uninhabited Five Islands off Antigua in the Caribbean. I wrote on a bed sheet and my Antiguan friend sailed me over , strung it up on some cactus and justting rocks, and then took the picture. Of course, I was doing research for my Golden Age mystery, Murder Visits Antigua, The protagonist is Aunt Amelia, not a close cousin to Miss Marple, and not Amelia… Continue