This has been a week to celebrate—and yes, I know it was my birthday last week—but a number of really fun things have happened. First off . . . trumpets, please . . . I finished writing the next Rose Harbor Inn series book due out in 2014.

Secondly, our good friends Gary and Marsha Roche, are visiting from Pennsylvania and we were on the Seattle waterfront playing tourist and feasting on seafood, and third . . .and this is big . . . our local library, after undergoing 2 months of renovation, has reopened, I just returned from the ribbon cutting ceremony. The library celebrated with wine, women and song. Okay, that's a bit of an exaggeration, coffee, cupcakes and cheers. It was wonderful to see fellow author, Gregg Olsen, at the event as well. And Sunday is the Seahawk football game. Yup, it's been a grand week.