It's Friday again, the day started off with wind chill factors below zero...but the sunrise was incredible. The sun popped up scarlet, looking twice the size it normally does. The birth of the sun painted the barren trees pink and the snow was tinged with a soft rose color. Beautiful! I thought I'd been transformed into a magical realm and then reality hit me when I pulled into the parking lot at the accounting office (in the middle of tax season). Ice still covers the pavement. I got my daily exercise by ice skating my way across the parking lot. I'm quite limber now after cartwheeling my arms around in a circle so that I could maintain balance. I can only imagine in the light colored white and grey coat I must have looked like a deranged sea gull trying to take flight. (Mental note to self...do NOT wear high heels on ice, even if they are boots.)

I haven't heard anything further on Into the Flame. I'm waiting for the contract and revisions. If the publisher is okay with it I may post a couple of excerpts here. In the meantime, I'm working on another story about a bride being stolen from the church during her wedding ceremony. The man who steals her is a former lover, an undercover agent, and a definite bad boy with an attitude. Little does she know that the man she was getting ready to marry is not only a successful lawyer, he's also the head of a major crime syndicate. Lots of action and humor in this one.

Well, its time for lunch...another exciting trip on the ice, lots of laughs for anyone looking out the window...and the inspiration for a possible scene in a novel of being chased by a crazed axe murderer across an icy road in which the axe murderer has the weapon raised ready to strike when his foot hits a huge clump of frozen snow and he goes skidding on the ice, possibly causing his own demise therefore saving the heroine from having to commit murder....oh well, that's a story for another day!