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| News from Ann via Rainey, her Webmaster: I have talked to Ann. She sounds very good. She's had to move recently and is settling in. She has finished her next book In the Still of the Night and it is the hands of her editor. She sends her love to everybody. |
| Posted by Rainey, Ann's Webmaster on Tuesday, July 20, 2010 at 07:32 |
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| Sunday Night |
Hi Everyone! I just realized I haven't read guest book for about 2 weeks! I am on page 440 of In the Still of the Night,and all I do is sleep,eat,and write. I know you'd rather have me finish the book than answer your questions. I will go through them in a day-long guestbook marathon when I send the book to New York in about five days.I have put everything off until I finish. Sigh. I loved reading your words tonight, but the dogs, cats, and I are hungry and my neck is really stiff. I promise to start exercising and rehabbing as soon as I finish. Planted three squash plants yesterday, and my joints felt as though I'd hoed the back 40! I know you use it or you lose it and the staph infection in my spine didn't help me feel like I was 25 again! I'm kind of miffed. The publisher of a re-release asked me to write the forward of Mailer's Executioners Song--and I said I would. Then Scott Turow came along and said he'd do it--and they picked him. He writes for the publisher, too--not mine. Still, I was already forming the forward in my head. Oh, well. Today, a friend cut down the huge dead pine tree in Mike's back yard--which also endangered my house. Amazing to watch! You couldn't get me six feet off the ground with a chainsaw. Tweets is such a grandma's girl that it warms my heart. She calls me 'Grandma Lady' and I call her 'Baby Lady' She's not even two and she picked up a piece of beach glass I have and told me "triangle?" I about fell over. I'm going to enjoy the summer with her right next door! She was very worried that the pine tree was going to fall on me today,and told me to go in the house, please.
Talk to you all soon. I love you.
Ann |
| Posted by Ann on Sunday, June 13, 2010 at 20:41 |
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| Sunday |
Hi Gang,
I've spent most of this week writing and moving and now I'm back to writing. I thought 20/20 did a great job on the Becky Babcock story Friday night--as best they could with their time limits. Most of you who have read Small Sacrifices know the whole story up to 2010, and Becky and I are hoping to write a book updating the story and telling about her life. I thought I looked kind of puny in the show, but I'm still recovering. My hair turned white when I was sick and I kind of like it--but may go back to light auburn, my natural color. When I look in the mirror, the white shocks me! My agents called telling me to put on weight. About the first time in my life anyone told me that! Sometimes I feel as though I'm getting better so slowly, but then I remember how things were weeks and even months ago and I know I'm making progress. I like my new place, but I almost cry when I go back to my beach house. Have half the critters moved. K.C. was almost in the carrier three times--but that little black cat out-foxed us every time. Now, he won't even come when I call him, so I 'll wait a few more days. I have some scratches to show for my rescue attempts. Sigh. My new house has a huge yard, lots of roses, peonies, fruit trees, and even raspberry and blackberry vines. My granddaughter, Tweets, comes over every day to see me as I'm just on the other side of her fence. There are losses in life, but there are compensating gains, too.
I hope many of you remembered our brave police across America who lost their lives while protecting us; we lost so many in my part of the country--just since Halloween. I'd better sign off and get back to the book. I'm so glad to have my computer back and the internet all in my own office, and not having to borrow someone else's.
Love,
Ann |
| Posted by Ann on Monday, May 17, 2010 at 08:58 |
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| Thursday |
Hi ARFS and others signing on! I've been missing from here for too long--but I've been moving, and what a job! I'm still too creaky from my recent illness to carry much but I have lots of help. It feels good to live in a house with no stairs! My other one--still not for sale--has almost 50 steps from the first to the third floor--not to mention the steps down to the beach! I miss seeing Puget Sound and all my flowers there, but this is better for now. This is a quick post to let you know that the 20/20 show that reveals who Diane Downs's last baby is now, and she and I have a talk on camera. It will be on your ABC Affiliate channel wherever you are--usually at 10 p.m and 9 p.m. Central time. Check your TV guides. I don't want anyone to miss it because I think you'll be fascinated. Back to writing on In the Still of the Night. The deadline is 15 days away. And I'm almost done. I'm better every day now, but I have a ways to go yet.
Love to you all!
Ann |
| Posted by Ann on Thursday, May 13, 2010 at 13:37 |
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| Saturday |
It's me at last! I am so much better, and I've had enough energy to write about 5 hours a day. I have to get In the Still of the Night done, and then I'll be on here so much, you'll be sick of me! I bought a new house to live in until I'm strong enough to go back to my waterfront paradise. It's all on one floor and very close to my kids if I "fall and can't get up.":+) What a year it's been so far. Just goes to show you never know. I've had a chance to see Tweets often. She calls me "Grandma Lady," and herself "Baby Lady!" She's talking a blue streak. I met Diane Downs's last baby. She's 26 now and we will both be on 20/20 this month. Don't know the exact date yet. If I can, I'm going to write her story--all that's happened to her in the quarter century just past! VERY nice young woman. Be sure and watch if you can. Would you guys be interested in an update book on the Downs'? I have so many cases in the hopper, all ready to go. I'll take some time off when I finish ITSOTN and sit in the sun, and then begin another book. I'm so grateful to be here to write! I was soooo sick--just now hearing just how sick I was! Glad I don't remember it all. Luckily, I have had great pet sitters and security people at my houses. Not peppy enough to go to Valu-Village and The Goodwill yet--but almost! My favorite shopping emporiums. I made slow-cooking spaghetti sauce today--no salt, but Oregano and Basil make it delicious. It feels great to be back in the (computer) saddle again. Linda Bug, I'm saddened to hear you lost your dad. And Colorado Rosie, where are you moving? Seems as though we're all peripatetic (Look it up--it's not a disease!)
I love you all, and I thank you for the prayers and the angels you sent. I KNOW they helped me.
Ann |
| Posted by Ann on Saturday, May 01, 2010 at 15:29 |
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| Wednesday |
I wasn't really in the Cayman Islands--just sounded warm and luxurious. I'm in Seattle, rehabbing. I had my last private nurse today. Hooray! I can do everything for myself now. I've read all the tabloids, watched hours of tv, and dreamed of being all the way back. Haven't typed since Feb.6th and my fingernails are so long, and hard to type with. Forgot some of my own passwords, even. Sigh. but Leslie has them. I'm looking for a house that's all on one floor--seems wiser than the one I have with 80 steps to the beach!
Thanks to the dozens of you who sent me cards,prayers, gifts, and good wishes. I really, really appreciated you.
Love,
Ann |
| Posted by Ann on Wednesday, March 31, 2010 at 17:44 |
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| Tuesday |
Believe it or not, I'm back! I was sicker than I've ever been in my life, but I made it. I'm still kind of weak, but I'm doing my exercises and walking as much as possible. AND I finally have a computer I can use in rehab. I know you will understand why In the Still of the Night will come out later this year. I'm sorry. I only had two chapters to go when I got sick. I'll keep writing though, and thank goodness, there will be books after that. I thank God and your prayers for pulling me through!
With much love!
Ann--lots thinner now, :*)
Don't know when I'll be able to go home, and I sure miss it. And my pets. I lost Buns two weeks ago. He died in his sleep. They all have a good petsitter, though. |
| Posted by Ann on Tuesday, March 30, 2010 at 13:58 |
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| Friday Night |
I agree about animals. When you adopt them,it's like having a baby. You sign on for the long haul. Lucy will be 18 in March, and I've cleaned up so much poop and pee from that dog. But she can't help it. She can't hear or see well, but she loves to sleep on the leopard skin dog bed by my bed, and be next to me whenever she can. Yogi is a problem doggie because he had an unhappy childhood, and barks so much. He knocked me down for at least three of my falls last summer, but now he seems to understand that you can't hit Mom with 80 pounds of dog going 80 miles an hour! Willow is a dream dog. All 3 dogs sleep in my bedroom. My cats are just as diverse. It costs a lot to feed 8 pets, and I can't just take off, but they love me and I love them. I've always wished that pets were rare and cost a lot to buy, were status symbols, and you had to pass tests to get them.
It's 10 p.m. and my eyes are tired from writing, and I'm hungry so time to go home and eat supper.
Love to you all!
Ann |
| Posted by Ann on Friday, January 29, 2010 at 21:56 |
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