Being Late by Janet Lane Walters #BWLAuthor #MFRWAuthor #Writing #Accidents #Childhood

 

After reminding myself for a week about doing this ahead of time, I was diverted again and again. So here I am on the due date. What to talk about?

I am approaching a birthday next month when I will be ninety. I remember as a child thinking I would be lucky to reach the age of 65. Why I chose that age, I'm not sure, Perhaps because I saw relatives and friends of the family celebrate when they reached that age. Since I went past what I as a child thought was the oldest anyone could reach, I'm looking forward to next year.

There will be a gathering of friends and family on that day. Will be fun and hopefully not embarrassing with people remembering my klutzy days and the ways I managed to ruin my body. Being accident prone is part of my life. Right now I have a scraped elbow when I missed a small step outside and ended up on the driveway next to the car. Nothing serious other than the scraped elbow. That seems to be how my accidents go. I'm sure there were hundreds of these little accidents when I was a child. My knees usually bore a scar. I used to tell people I was ambi-awkward and that still holds to today.

Enough about bodily harms. Working hard to finish a book I hate. Not someone else's but the one I'm currently working on. Should ahve it ready to go to the publisher soon. So I'll stop this and return to work.

Nursing Home by J. S. Marlo

 

Undeniable Trait

is coming

in July 2024

   

 

  

J. S. Marlo's BWL Books

I'm part of what my friend call "the sandwich generation". That's the generation of 50 to 70 yrs old who takes care of elderly relatives and young children at the same time.

I enjoy babysitting my grandchildren when they can't go to daycare. Being my children's backup babysitter isn't a chore, it's a ray of sunshine in my week, but taking care of two elderly relatives who live at the other end of the country is a whole different story.

These elderly relatives require special assistance, assistance that I'm not equipped to provide, assistance only available in a nursing home. Ironically, finding the right nursing home isn't any easier than finding the right daycare. One of my elderly relatives wouldn't be able to tell me if the care she receives is adequate any more than my 15-month-old granddaughter could.

The Covid years exposed the ugly management of too many nursing homes where basic care wasn't even basic. Some say you get what you pay for, but what happens when you can't pay more than you earn?

In Undeniable Trait, Willow is a young female plumber struggling to care for her elderly grandmother. Willow can't afford to stay home and not work any more than she can afford to pay for home care. Her only option is to send her grandmother to the only nursing home in her isolated northern town -- a nursing home that hides more than a few deadly secrets.

    Hoping to start afresh, Dr. Zachary Auckerman moves to a northern Canadian town in desperate need of a doctor. Within days of his arrival, he stumbles onto suspicious deaths and illegal activities at the nursing home, and encounters a fascinating female plumber with a spunky personality and six fingers on her left hand.

    After suffering an injury fixing a toilet tank, Willow Mitchell falls for the new doctor who stitched her hand and called her to thaw his frozen pipes. 

    The murder of her mother, a woman who seduced and extorted men, prompts Willow to dig into her past and seek her father’s identity, but the secrets surrounding her birth are buried deep in old medical files and locked in the ravaged mind of her grandmother who lives at the nursing home.

    Amid rumors, lies, deceit, and betrayal, Willow and Zachary hunt for the truth, unleashing deadly events that threaten their lives. Can they trust their hearts, and each other, before one of them becomes the next victim?

Undeniable Trait will be available next month (July 2024). 

As for me, one relative is a work-in-progress who's giving me lots of grey hair, but the other elderly relative and my three grandchildren are in good nursing home/daycare. 

Happy Reading,

J. S.

 

 

J. S. Marlo's Website