Blog Posts by Susan Egner
Inspirations, thoughts by Minnesota author and flight attendant
We left a moderate winter in Minnesota for a brief respite in northern Florida. Having grown up in Florida, I knew it could be chilly this time of year. However, even 50’s would offer a nice change. We landed to a balmy 67 degrees and for the first week, the temperatures bounced around in the sixties and on two days the 70’s. Couldn’t ask for more than that. However, I also brought a writing project to work on, which I pretty much ignored the first week. The gods of weather have deemed it necessary to get me back on track, thus plummeting the temps into the low forties with high winds and surf. Time to get to work. But it was nice while it lasted.
Not sure of the age of my granddaughter the last time we went to the beach on the Gulf of Mexico but we’re leaving soon for another visit. This time she is one year away from college. I wonder if she’ll still feed the sea gulls and make sand castles.
The new book, that I had hoped to have out by Halloween was published on the Day of the Dead. It’s strange to write about Wicca just as I was approaching Halloween. There are so many mixed messages in the holiday. Some don’t like it because they tie it to the devil which my research hasn’t proved to be true. I’ve never looked at Halloween with any deeper meaning than kids having fun; dressing up in costumes, threatening a trick if they don’t get a treat. I’ve never known any trick-or-treating kids to mar the holiday with mean tricks or vandalism of any kind. Once in a while teenage boys smash a few pumpkins, but by Halloween, they’re getting pretty soft anyway. As we still work our way through Covid 19, it seems that a sense of humor might be life saving. How are we to continue to live our lives if we feel it will be devoid of humor forever? Though no trick-or-treaters came to our door, I heard that many attended specially contrived events to give them the same sense of fun–socially-distanced of course. I hope the costumes brought lots of giggles and suspect the candy brought a few belly aches. I hope you enjoy my new book and write a review. It’s most appreciated.