Spring is taking her time this year and everyone is wondering why. It is my understanding that it is called Mother Nature and man has never been able to figure it out, but we'll keep trying. In the meantime live well, be grateful, create something, help when you can.

Dave and I have the beginnings of another chapter in our lives, exciting times, new beginnings, lucky to be where we are. I was told by a friend that we create our luck and that when good things happen it's because we helped to create it. I sat in their kitchen looking out over wind driven water, dark blues and greens, with the tide high and the sun shinning strong we chatted about the choir that Vera sings with and the teachers that George works with. We ate apples and hugged their dog Jack, who also likes apples. I think it is more than luck, it is allowing, it is learning and believing. We feel lucky to be able to spend time keeping an old boat going, finding a way to keep it all happening.

I plan on living aboard as much as possible when it warms up a bit and the wind let's go a bit.  I will move aboard gradually, letting go of all that ties me to the shore - the people I love. At the same time I feel guilty for knowing how much I will enjoy it. I plan on finishing another book while Dave makes another tow, always hoping for a good catch and a good story.  'The Fishermen's Ball', a mystery that takes place in Provincetown in 1937. As Provincetown plans a grand occasion to celebrate their good fortune while helping raise money for neighboring towns that were  devastated by the hurricane of Sept 21, 1937 - a family becomes embroiled in a murder. AH - HA! For all my friends that have asked for more fishing stories I have included a few in this book. I'm not sure I can write anything that doesn't include fishing.

Also  (if I ever get it finished), "Arethusa" will have lots of sea stories, but it's still developing. Arethusa was our sailboat and the book is another memoir. Can one have more than one Memoir?  And so as spring begins our boat has a comfortable new foc'sle, one any fishermen's wife could love and because it was built with love - I know it will be a good place to write. I'll send pics, but in the meantime spring is coming and I'm finishing my first mystery. www.provincetownfishwife.com