The City & the Country no.21 – August 25 2014

In an idiom borrowed from Facebook, [Look, everybody!] My newly picked garden-fresh string beans…

To the post office this morning to send my next-to-youngest grandson Cosmo some birthday loot – doesn’t the post office look nostalgic in black-and white? (I just discovered this function on my cellphone camera.) But black-and-white could never give you the glory of our postmistress’s hair (no artificial coloring or photoshopping!), one of the sights of Woodstock.

Finally, Steve and Paul, two stalwarts of Easton Lane, our street, Steve a genius of furniture-making and house design, Paul simply a genius and currently Steve’s jack-of-all-trades employee, his Figaro.

Today was the 5th and final day of the Facebook-led free e-book download promotion, on Amazon.com, of Book One of my new novel, Who Was That Lady? (We achieved a very pleasing 120+ downloads.) Today was also the day of my oldest pal, Steve Wilson, posting a review to beat all reviews of the book, on Amazon. Best of all, today was the day my friend, brother and colleague John Keller was finally offered an incredibly well-deserved permanent post, like mine, teaching English at the City University of New York.