Hi Mom,

I love the photo! I'm glad the book finally arrived.

I saw the email with your bio. I love it! It brought back a lot of memories for me in an unexpected way. We're both Anne fans, of course. I think the first time I read Anne of Green Gables may have actually been on that family minivan trip to the east coast when we visited Prince Edward Island and went to the real Green Gables House. I got a boxed set of the series and devoured them on the long, long car ride. Remember getting lobster right off the boat and cooking it in that cabin on the shore?

Your bio does leave me with some questions; it's surprising to me that I don't have a good grasp of certain details of your life. There are some things you really never talked about much. I hope to tease a few more specifics out of you in due time!

But first: I am dying to know how things are going with Ulysses. Have you started reading yet? What do you think? What are your first impressions? I have A LOT of thoughts about it but I want some unvarnished, uninfluenced thoughts from you first. Have you fallen asleep while reading it yet? I can just picture you out on the patio curled up on the love seat in the shade with the garden in bloom around you, nodding off after having been up since the crack of dawn doing chores.

Let me know how it's going!!!

K.

ps. Knowing Dad has read it too is a surprise; I'll email him about that for sure. Can't the dude with a PhD in physics who canoed across the arctic, worked on a Nobel Prize-winning scientific experiment, and built a library in his retirement leave the story books to us girls? ;)