What an adventure today - at my book signing. It took place at a great local bookstore, Hard Bean Coffee and Booksellers, in downtown Annapolis. We - myself and another author, a fiction mystery writer - were set up just outside the store front. Just steps away was City Dock, the water and everything I love about Annapolis.

The foot traffic in a tourist town in the summer was crazy (but great too)! It was also Plebe Parent weekend at the Naval Academy - and I had the pleasure of meeting one of our new plebes and his mother during my book signing. My husband and I are a sponsor family for the Naval Academy, and each year welcome two new plebes (freshman) into our home. We look forward to it and enjoy the fine young people who grace our - and our childrens’ - lives.

Today gave me the opportunity to do what I love most about having written this book: meeting one on one and interacting with people who will read (or have read) the book. It is such a personal story, written from the heart with at times very raw emotions, that I enjoy the personal interaction with my readers. Even via e-mail, those who have reached out and written to me, and shared part of their lives with me, find the connection is mutually inspiring.

As I love to write in each book I sign: Share the Inspiration!