Lake Forest Park

And I also can be found in the wild this fall, which is very exciting.

On October 1st, I am so thrilled to be launching the House of Gardenias at Third Place Books, Lake Forest Park here in Seattle.

I will be in conversation with the...

The only and the great Margaret Owen, who is one of the most hysterical people I've ever met.

Let me know.

All of our favorite dispensaries, the Kushery in Lake Forest Park, Havahart in Greenwood, not.

I take that back.

The Greenery in Greenwood, Dockside Cannabis in Ballard.

this fall, I am booked and busy.

October 1st, I'm going to be at Third Place Books at Lake Forest Park here in Seattle.

celebrating the launch of the House of Gardenias.

I'll be in conversation with Margaret Owen, who wrote one of my favorite books of all time, The Merciful Crow, and many other fantastic books besides.

That's when my book comes out in the Los Angeles area at Sunny's Bookshop in Tarzana.

And then I'm going up to Washington to Browser's Bookshop in Olympia and Third Place Books outside of Seattle in Lake Forest Park for a couple events there in the first week of October.

Or maybe it's the second week.

It's 6th and 8th of October.

All right, we figured after this week we could use a feel good Sundays with subscribers.

So last week I posted this letter on my social media pages that I had been sent from someone in Lake Forest Park, Washington.

And it was a letter given to all the neighbors in the area by a retiring garbage man who'd served their area for years.

He's retiring at the end of this month.

You can go to work every day hating your job, or you can decide this is what I chose to do for a living, and I'm going to make the best of it.

Isn't that refreshing? Oh, I love this guy.

Michael Wayne, again, retiring as a garbage man up in Lake Forest Park.

He's going to be our guest on Sundays with subscribers.

Seattle.

I grew up in Lake Forest Park.

My driving years were in Iowa City, Iowa, which is the only real town in Iowa, but still, it's Iowa.

When we went places with the car crew, It was like, we always drove separate.

Right.

And I got hired on there as a reporter and became the editor of the Linwood Mount Lake Terrace and Lake Forest Park editions, and also writing for the Herald off and on.

And so I did that for more than eight years, um, had, uh, the first few children during that time as well.

We have five children and yeah, we've always lived in South Snohomish County since then.