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Newsletter recipients: Here are the answers to the quiz about aunts. Now I'm going back to work on Aunt Marge , my WIP.  Above is a picture I'm considering for the cover. Does she look scary enough?     Do rothy’s aunt in The Wizard of Oz 2.        The aunt who sings “We Need a Little Christmas” 3.       Charley’s aunt’s impersonator 4.        Excitable Gone with the Wind aunt 5.        Opinionated aunt in Little Women 6.        The “tall one” and the “thin one” who are extremely mean to their nephew 7.       Aunt who reckons Tom Sawyer won’t get to heaven without her help 8.       Aunt determined to make Scout into a lady 9.       Aunt in Harry Potter who looks like a “bad-tempered flamingo” 10     Aunt who comes into David Copperfield’s life rather late, because he was a boy   __3_Lord Fancourt Babberly _2__Auntie Mame _1_  Auntie Em _4__Aunt Pittypat _5__Aunt March _6__Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker in James and the Giant Peach _7__Aunt Poll

Though I doubt that my pause in blogging has caused anyone extensive pain, I would like to explain what caused my long blog-drought. First, I've been working on a novel, which is good but kind of bad. I knew the story and the characters well, but the darned thing would NOT focus. For months the characters wandered through what I believe to be a very intriguing plot without any sort of consensus at the end about why they'd been there. That part has resolved itself. For me, it takes many, many passes before a book starts to feel smooth and focused, but it's finally happening. While this is just the beginning, it is encouraging. Before I can show the story to anyone else, it has to please/excite/gratify me. My second reason for neglecting a lot of things was a fall on the ice in February. For the first time in decades, we decided to stay in Michigan for the winter, and my reward was a broken femur. It was quite an adventure, since I was back in the woods when I fell, but lucki