Welcome to my first blog!

It took me decades to achieve a dream I had envisioned as a teenager -- to live in a home near the beach and spend my time as a writer.

The route was circuitous with a variety of life chapters -- which I may or may not share in my writing some day.

But here I am enjoying this phase of my life.

I have dabbled as an author from a very early age -- when I would write and illustrate my own stories. There was nothing I liked better than a blank sheet of white paper, a perfectly sharpened pencil, and a brand new box of Crayolas.

Life happened and I grew up. Busy, busy, busy.

But, finally I couldn't ignore a story which compelled me to create a finished product.

With overflowing love, I perused the letters my parents mailed to each other almost daily from July 1945 to December 1946. It was their courtship in their own writing. This had to be preserved. And so I recreated their love story, with much poetic license.

Along this creative journey, I somehow felt that I was living in this 1940s era. I could see how the '40s developed into the '50s, the time I recall as a youngster growing up. I clearly remember how hard my parents worked growing a business, what a great team they were as they reached for the American Dream, and how much fun they, my brothers and I had.

My family has encouraged me to share this story with anyone else who might be interested.

Maybe, in reading this book you will imagine or remember simpler times and simpler love.

Enjoy!

Thank you,

Linda Hart