Here come the Sun! (and the fun!)

Whee! This has turned into an interesting weekend. The weekend has several components, so I'll have to post in pieces.

It all started yesterday noon, when I stopped in at the Way Station Bookstore downtown. This store has been in business since last July, but it took me until December to warm up to it. This is no reflection on the store. My friend Nancy had a novelties and card store downtown. It was a warm, fun place, but she had to close it in May as she was relocating to be near her parents who were in poor health. The Way Station moved into that building. The first few times I visited the new store, I missed Nancy too much. But times do change, and the proprietor of this new/used bookstore is a real sweetheart, so it has become a regular stopping place.

It's a small bookstore, though, and I usually don't like to stop when they're having author signings. Yesterday I didn't notice the sign about author signings, so in I went. Oops. I have an early lunch hour, and they were just setting up the author's table.

The author was Dianne M. Hicks, and she was just delightful! So nice, in fact, that I bought her book, Soulful Expressions, On Love and Women. I never purchase poetry books. Never.