Eat Dessert First, Life Is Uncertain!

In the early 1980’s there was a dessert place in Seattle, that had the marketing slogan, “Eat Dessert First, Life Is Uncertain!”

Arden and I adopted this as a family motto.  Circumstances always remind us that life is uncertain.  It is important to find enjoyment in life and don’t put off things that you want to do.

Nick is doing great today.  He is tired and has a lot of extra seizure medicine on board because of last nights seizure extravaganza, but he says “I better and I feel fine.”  We can’t ask for more.

I feel like we are often standing on the proverbial street corner, beating our drum to get attention, with our message, “Do what makes you happy.  Care for others and spend time connecting with the ones that you love.”

But believing this has made all the difference to us when the storms come.  We feel so blessed today with the outpouring of messages of love and concern that we have received from around the world.  We are grateful for you all.

We are always a bit emotional the day we leave Ireland for the States, today we feel it even more keenly.  Hopefully all will be well with Nick as we travel over the next two and a half days to get home.  Again, thank you.  We certainly do “Feel the love.”

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  1. Glad you’re “feeling the love”, ’cause it’s out here for all of you from all of us.

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Announcing that I have finished a book with the working title of “The Fairy Fort.” I am currently pitching it to publishers. Keep checking back to watch the progress of my newest novel.

Here is a quick glimpse of the story.

Sarah Doherty is an 18-year-old living in rural Ireland at the tail end of the Great War. Plagued by severe epilepsy, she is protected by her parents and lives a sheltered, secluded, lonely life. The Fae, local Irish fairies, interfere with her life. She falls forward a century in time through the local fairy fort of standing stones. She had a seizure in 1918 and woke up in 2020. The 21st century world includes life-saving prescriptions, physical comforts and the independence and freedom she seeks. The locals are welcoming and Andy Mclaughlin, a handsome young historian, is intriguing. She doesn’t want to return home.

Then a letter arrives from Boston divulging the story of Sarah and Andy’s lives that are deeply entwined in the previous century. They are not yet in love but as they seek to verify the letter through online resources, they feel a growing obligation to their unborn family and to each other. What would happen to their posterity living in Boston if they don’t return to 1918? Even if they do make it back, her parents can never know what happened to her or that would change everything.

This Young Adult time-travel romance explores the question: Do we have the freedom to make choices or is free will an elaborate illusion?

This is my third book. I love reading time travel romances. I am an advocate for epilepsy awareness because my 43-year-old son has intractable epilepsy. As a genealogist specializing in Irish research, I live part of the year in the village where the story is based. I wrote the book to help young adults understand that difficult situations can change your life. Sometimes miraculously.