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My daughter and I went to one of those ‘antique stores’ that includes booths where people sell their crafts.  She took a picture of this cute sign that you would buy to hang in the laundry room.  It says “LOST SOCKS” with a twine clothesline and mini clothespins for you to attach the single socks whose mates hopefully show up in a future load of laundry.

That is so stinking cute!  I mean that, seriously.  The thought that someone exists out there who can clip a couple of lost socks to their ‘missing sock’ board is really funny to me.

In my house, we clearly have a serious problem – I have baskets of mate-less socks.  I absolutely hate matching socks, but I swear they reproduce like rabbits OR the washing machine is meticulously eating a single sock from almost every pair of socks in the house.

I remember my mom must have struggled with something similar, she bought these little plastic disks that you slipped a pair of socks into to keep them together in the washer and dryer.  Like a little pair of sock handcuffs…I could probably use some of those today.   Because I’m telling you, my missing sock board will need to look more like a wall of clothesline strings and clothespins.  Or maybe I could mount a couple of laundry baskets to the board?

Guess what?  I just searched for them and found them available for purchase the exact same disks I remembered – I’m going to get some now.  I’ll let you know how they work!!  Maybe it will be to report, bye bye missing socks!  Hello cute laundry board with just a few clothespins!

One of the challenges I have in my story telling as a new writer, is keeping track of my characters and which ones have met and when. I accidentally introduced two characters twice, and another time I had an apparently ‘omniscient’ character who knew stuff about a person he hadn’t met yet. In novel plotting it gets hard to keep track of all the details.

As you read this, I don’t know if you are someone who already knows me really well, someone who kinda knows me and is getting to know me, or someone who just stumbled across my path. So let’s have fun! You get to be like a character in my book, my confidant, my dear friend – sometimes you might get mad at me. I’m pretty sure some of my characters are really ticked off at me right now, especially because I’ve been leaving them stew in their own plot soup a bit long.   Please know, I do not mean to offend so let’s agree to graciously give each other the benefit of the doubt! I’ve noticed that many online opinions are brandished about with the violence of a barbaric sword-fight and sometimes one is emboldened by the anonymous online-not-face-to-face interactions.

I will do my best to imagine your best self, and as I lay things out and I imagine you reading it – remember I cannot see your face. I cannot tailor my words to smooth the questioning look on your brow.  I can’t expand or rephrase my thought when your lips pursed or your eyes glaze over. I will do my best, to imagine you where you are and I so appreciate and cherish your thoughts, comments, questions. I joke around, but I never mean to personally offend anyone – it’s just not the type of humor I do. I’ll make fun of myself first.

When you comment, all I ask is that we keep content and language rated ‘G’ or ‘PG’ (maybe). I have 3 children who all read this and since they feature prominently in many of my stories, they are fascinated.

Thank you so much! I’m looking forward to getting to know you better too, my friend!