Happy Valentine's Day, Mom and Dad...

It has not been a year since my mom and dad died...and one of my new coping habits is to write letters to them...nothing organized...just every once in a while when I want to tell them something.  I also make a mental note of what holidays they both have missed.   They missed the Fourth Of July, and they missed Halloween...my mom loved and hated Halloween because in the town where my parents lived and where I grew up...Halloween was celebrated on the Saturday before the real Halloween...my mom would sit outside on the front porch and arm herself with bags of candy...and chat with the neighbors and munch on chocolates...they missed Thanksgiving and they missed Christmas and New Year's Day...and Eve...and now they are missing Valentine's Day...I hope they have chocolate covered almonds in heaven for my mom and  for my dad.

I just finished Strange Angels by Lili St. Crow

I literally raced through this book...I loved every spine chilling tremor causing word but I could not put it down.  I began reading on Super Bowl Sunday just after I finished reading the New York Times...I finally put it down just when New Orleans officially won.  It was so delicious.   I have just begun reading her next book...Betrayals...I have this innate compulsion to read every book in a series before being able to go on to a new book.   I think it is quite possible to read faster on a Kindle...there is no time wasted turning pages or going back to reread...you just press next page and off you go...I will let everyone know how Betrayals was in a day or so...and...to be truthful...I have successfully avoided all things ZOMBIE...in my life...and now...I kind of have an interest in them along with Werwufen and all kinds of other creepy creatures of the night...read these books...they are good...really good...