New Book Talks and Signings for "Visionaries" and "Apricots"

"Historic Bay Area Visionaries" is a hit in our Silicon Valley library system, where there are now a dozen copies in circulation--and they're all checked out! I donated two more at a recent talk at the Los Altos Library.

We have lots of talks scheduled for 2019, and I hope you will find time to stop by and say hello at one or more of them. I always like to see familiar faces when I am at these events. It is a delight to see so many of you! Here are the details: 

Friends & Family Fight Explosive Boston Hate

My friend Josh's mother Holly and me in her lovely Washington D.C. home the day I left to take a new job at WESH-TV in Florida.

We heard the news of the terrible attack in Boston just before I headed back to the San Francisco peninsula from my visit to Los Angeles. 

It made me glad that I had gone to LA in the first place. Though I flew down there for business--in this case to help promote my new book--another key reason for the trip was to see old friends. Boston was a good reminder that nothing in life--even life itself--comes with a guarantee.

Returning Home to Actual Work (Gasp)

The weather was cooler this morning, so I tested my mother's old Apricot Yummy recipe.

No more of this wedding fun and modeling cute hats and running around Canada trying out one's old college French on the natives. I've had to actually do some work since I've returned to Fort Chapman, California from my petites vacances. 

For example, besides unpacking and checking in with my California Scrub Jay friends, I had to review the contract for the book I'm planning to produce for The History Press. And I've had to begin the research. Those are two of the hard things about a writing project. The writing part isn't much work at all by comparison.