The Second Blooming

“I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming… suddenly you find – at the age of 50, say – that a whole new life has opened before you.” ~ Agatha Christie

The main character, Mary Lunsford, in Mary in Color is younger than what Agatha Christie speaks of, but she experiences that second blooming. I was not a widow when I wrote the story, nor even when it first published in ebook. Yet, this morning as I read the beginning pages, I found that I had captured so much of what I have experienced in...