Greetings all!
Just a few personal updates. I have been deemed fully recuperated from my unplanned audition to be a crash-test dummy a few months back. As well, like many of you, I am presently working from home. Much as I enjoy my six-foot commute to my workstation (as opposed to my 28-mile commute) I miss my office and my coworkers. It looks like it may be possible for me to see them again after Memorial Day.
As well, my computer workstation currently houses both my home computer and my work laptop. It was a bit of a challenge to inspire my muse while sitting in this chair after I'd already been sitting in it for 8+ hours of work, but I feel that my muse has begun to adapt.
Chapter 23 is in the queue, at long last. The setting of this chapter is, rather deliberately, a 5K to benefit a local food bank. It is deliberate as it gives me a chance to use this small platform I have to remind you how critical a role the local food banks are playing at this confusing and often frightening time in our history. Children who are accustomed to eating breakfast and lunch at school have suddenly lost access to two substantive meals a day that they could count on. Families who already struggle from paycheck to paycheck have been pleading with their landlords not to evict them as they live on Ramen and hot dogs.
Local food banks are doing their best to stand in the gap, but as the need increases, their resources are decreasing. You read this story for free. If you enjoy this story, I ask you to consider showing your appreciation by finding a few extra dollars in your budget - if you are working - and giving it to the local food bank, or go to the grocery store, buy a bunch of canned goods and other nonperishable staples, and bring them to them. They'll make good use of it.
I am, as always, grateful to jetson63, my editor, for his wisdom, his insight, and his friendship. And, as always, I am grateful to all of you, my readers. Please be safe.
-- DFLR