Robot Scientist’s Daughter on the Shelf, Cherry Blossoms, and other things to be thankful for
- At February 22, 2015
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In Blog
- 0
Yesterday I had to run some errands, and on the way I stopped by Open Books, my favorite all-poetry bookstore in Seattle. Though it is a few days before The Robot Scientist’s Daughter officially debuts, I was very happy to see my book on their shelf. It makes it feel official, like, I have a real book!
It looks like early spring in Seattle, which is a few degrees warmer than where I live now. As we drove through the streets, I saw magnolia, forsythia, crabapple, and these pink cherry blossoms:
One reason (besides the hunt for a dentist) I’ve been too busy to notice these things is because we’ve been getting our house ready to sell, which for us, means cleaning, packing, donating and consigning boxes of clothes, books, magazines, and other stuff, taking down shelves, repainting scratches or filling in holes from picture hooks. It also means looking at houses to buy, trying to decide what our price range really is and what neighborhoods we’d look in. The Seattle real estate market is a pricey one, and often, over the past fifteen years or so, has limited our options. We did find a small house we liked, and today we’re making an official offer! No guarantee it will be accepted, but it’s a step!