Priscilla's Blog

I try not to kick myself for the items on my “to do” list that never get done. How many times have I written down, “Market A Pioneer Love Story?” Somehow the urgency doesn’t hit me and it never gets to the top of the list…important as I know it is. Does that make me a lazy author? Probably!
Then last weekend I receive a surprise phone call. A man I don’t know is calling from St. Louis. “I would like to purchase two copies of A Pioneer Love Story.” When he tells me where he heard of my book the real surprise hits.
He had picked up a magazine at a sale to raise funds for a not-for-profit organization. The magazine, Kansas City Voices, is a literary and art magazine published by Whispering Prairie Press every fall. He had just purchased a 2008 copy for twenty-five cents.
“A Pioneer Love Story looks like it would be interesting. I’d like to purchase two copies. That’s the kind of story I like. I want to buy a copy for myself and one for a friend. I know we will both enjoy it.”
What a delightful surprise.
We never know where some of our actions will lead.

A long weekend in Minnesota can’t be beat.
It was the Audubon group’s Warbler Weekend. My sister, Pam, and I joined Ben Thursday afternoon for a couple of days of birding.
We stayed in Lake City, MN … walked miles through the Hok-Si-La Park and Frontenac State Park… identified lots of birds … and pouted because of the scarcity of warblers. Gorgeous woods, swamps and grasslands along the Mississippi River.

To top off the weekend we drove back to Arden Hills (north of St. Paul) for a fabulous dinner with Ben and Tina’s sons, daughters-in-law and four grandchildren. I hadn’t met the youngest…born in March. Teegan Guse Wilson is the youngest daughter of Jeff and Christy. The two cousins, Izzy and Rory led us through the woods behind the house. They are four and three and are a hoot.

Minnesota gave us the best weather they had had this spring. Except for some wind on Friday, which makes finding birds harder, we couldn’t have asked for more perfect weather. Ben and Tina’s back yard backs up to wildlife woods with fantastic walks and birds.