Have had such a wonderful time watching conference.  My heart is full.  I have received many impressions of things that I need to do.  I am so grateful to all my friends and fans with whom I share my writing world.  It is indeed a blessing that at this time in my life when my body is beginning to show signs of wear and tear, that the Lord sustains me in a newly found career as a writer.  After 25 years of illness, it is wonderful to feel fruitful and full of purpose and ideas.

I have been digging down in The Only Bright Thing, my latest literary endeavor, trying to follow my product director’s advice to make it "even better than Waltz."  What I have found has surprised and confounded me.  I have had to miss my deadline in order to make it the book I want to be.  I hope, when finished, that it will be a wonderful story of different kinds of love and different kinds of marriages, as Waltz was.

We leave for Florence the day after tomorrow and I can scarcely believe it.  It has been forty years since I have been there, and David has never been.  We look forward to relaxing for two weeks, taking in all the local color as research for the first volume of my Crazy Ladies of Oakwood series which is slated to begin in 2011. 

I have also lately been rethinking my decision not to provide a sequel to Waltz.  There has been such an outcry that I am considering it.  Check out the wonderful new review of Waltz on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. 

When next I write, it will be from Italy!