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Author Archives: Lea Wait
My Crazy Health Update
So — last year about this time I posted that I’d just been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. Not a fun thing to happen. Especially when my oncologist added that I had 4-6 weeks to live. Having just survived … Continue reading
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Tagged heart attack, Justice and Mercy, Lea Wait, stage 4 cancer, Thread and Buried, Thread on Arrival
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Ten of Maggie Summer’s Secrets
Maggie Summer is the protagonist in my eight book Shadows Antique Print Mystery series. (Shadows at the Fair, Shadows on the Coast of Maine, Shadows on the Ivy, Shadows at the Spring Show, Shadows of a Down East Summer, Shadows … Continue reading
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Downsizing
Lea Wait, here, feeling overwhelmed by the history of things. Yes. Things. I know people are more valuable than possessions. My heart aches for those who lose everything they own, in fires or floods or wars. But I cherish many … Continue reading
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Searching the Past for Stories
Historical research is done by authors, librarians, historians, genealogists, doctoral candidates, homeowners wondering about the history of their homes, and grade school students reluctantly fulfilling classroom assignments. I’ve done all of the above, at various points in my life. But … Continue reading
Weathervanes … Which Way Is the Wind Blowing?
Lea Wait, here. Most people of “a certain age,” including me, immediately recognize Bob Dylan’s famous line from his Subterranean Homesick Blues (1965): “You don’t need a weatherman to tell which way the wind blows.” I think of that line often, especially … Continue reading
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Tagged antique weaather vanes, Bob Dylan, nor'easters, weather vanes
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Thread On Arrival — Arriving Next Week!
Lea Wait here, looking forward to the April 30 publication date for the 8th in my Mainely Needlepoint series. (With thanks to everyone who’s followed Angie Curtis and her friends in Haven Harbor, Maine! Without readers … there would be … Continue reading
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Tagged adoption, foster care, Haven Harbor, Lea Wait, Shadows on a Morning in Maine, Thread on Arrival
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Happiest Days
All of us have phases in our lives … periods of our lives we remember for what we were doing (School? Jobs?) or where we were living, or what was happening in our family or who was important (for good … Continue reading
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“What IF?”
In this month’s Midwest Book Review one of my Mainely Needlepoint books (THREAD THE HALLS) is reviewed. For an author’s books to be reviewed is not unusual. In this case, however, it was, for two reasons. First, because THREAD THE … Continue reading
Polishing
Lea Wait, here, posting this blog from “Writers’ Jail.” That’s what my friend and fellow author Barbara Ross calls it when your manuscript deadline is fast approaching, and you’re behind schedule. Their schedule, your schedule … it doesn’t matter how … Continue reading
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Tagged brass, cancer, copper, polishing, writers jail
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Different Ways to Garden
Lea Wait, here. When I think of my grandparents, especially my grandmother, I think of her gardens. In her home in Roslindale, Massachusetts, where I spent some of my earliest years, she had a wonderful large rectangular rose garden, with a … Continue reading
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