Happy New Year!
Another Year. More Challenges.
Life is an unending series of curve balls, and I am without my baseball mitt.
My 86-year-old mother is showing signs of dementia, which is not something I would wish on anyone. To see one of the smartest people I have ever known dwindle to someone who can’t remember simple things is heartbreaking.
We didn’t know the severity of the situation until someone swindled several thousand dollars from her in the form of checks she didn’t remember writing.
I’ve known for a great many years that the healthcare system in this country is broken, but now I am experiencing it firsthand. My mother needs assistance, but her social security check is too high to qualify her for assistance, but the check is far too low to pay for quality care.
It’s enough to make one want to shake their elected officials until they see sense.
The motivation to purchase our first home has swung into high gear again. However, with sellers who haven’t gotten the memo that it’s now 2023, not 2020, and they are instance to ask for half a million dollars for a home that’s under 1K square feet, it’s slim pickings.
I hope that by spring, I can report that we have a home and that dear old mom is living with us in comfort and safety.
Pandemonium Cozy Mystery Update
The Girl with the Uninvited Ghost is with Fantastic Editions Editing in the hands of Olive Faulkner, a fellow Twitch streamer.
Olive’s been in the editing game since 2016. She and Geetha Krishnan founded Fantastic Editions Editing in 2020 from a merger of their existing editing businesses.
I am excited to begin making edits to The Girl with the Uninvited Ghost next month!
While I wait for FEE to hand me back the first book, I have been tinkering away on the second in the series, The Girl and the Clock Tower Murder.
I am pleasantly surprised by the manuscript so far. It’s been long enough that I have forgotten some of the little details, and I find myself giggling in all the right places.
