I love the INTERNETS!!!!!

**Photo added at the end...

SO, in the ongoing saga of talking to/about dead people (not my novel, but the search for my Father's family) there has been some new activity.
First of all...
TODAY I MEET MY COUSIN!
He and my Father have not seen each other since the early 60's, and I of course have never met him at all. You can bet there will be pictures...and questions and hopefully we can start to piece together some answers.
But in even bigger news....

Someone was doing a search for our family, and came across the entry I posted about my Aunt Ruth. Turns out, it is HIS Aunt Ruth too. He emailed me last night, and i have responded. (If you were that person...CHECK YOUR EMAIL!) The nearest I can figure, without talking to him..is that he is my Father's Great Nephew.

HOW COOL IS THAT???????

I am pretty sure that a lot of this stuff will find its way into my WIP...yes I have started a sequel to "Talking to Dead People". While i of course have not finished editing the first novel, there were stories that needed to get out. They were rattling around in my head, interrupting my every day thoughts. Perhaps "talking" will be more marketable if there is already a second story to go with it? I don't know, but i do know that the urge to continue to write about the O'Donnel Family is strong, and i cannot fight it. I just have to let them write their story...one word at a time.

I think there is a lesson in there somewhere....isn't that what we all have to do?
Let our own stories/life unfurl...one word at a time?

****Here we are at the restaurant this afternoon. From l-r Jack Flaacke (my cousin and Dad's nephew), Bill Insell (my Dad) and me.

Comments

[Mary]

I didn't realize that your dad was also meeting his long-lost relatives, for some reason I thought just you were. Great that you are filling in the missing pieces of his life.

[Sharon]

Hey! that's the first time I've seen you! You look awesome and Hoot. I could so have a great time with you.
;)