Debbie Daughetee

I'm so happy the holidays are over. Going to Florida for Thanksgiving and my Dad's B-day, then turning around and going to Texas to spend the Christmas with Paul's family, ended up being just too exhausting. My mother is still going downhill, my father needs surgery and 93-year-old grandmother had bleeding behind her eye which detached her retina. She had surgery and is now doing well.

Whew! I really used to love the holidays.

But now Paul and I are back home and I feel like I'm getting my life back. I finished the rewrite of my dragon story and set it off to Fantasy magazine. I'm rereading my novel and making some polishing changes. At least I'm still enjoying the story and the characters. And I'm rewriting another story to submit to my short story writing critique group. So I'm feeling quite accomplished after so much time away from the keyboard.

This has also been a time of surprises. Out of the blue I was contacted by some old friends from my days on Prodigy when I was part of the Dark Shadows board. I worked for Dan Curtis (who created DS) and he asked me to get on and ask a few questions of the fans. It took a while and a phone call from Jim Pierson, who handled all Dan's DS work, to convince the members that I really did work for Dan. But I made some great friends there and even met some at a convention.

I lost track once I got staff jobs writing for TV. I simply didn't have the time to keep up. Now, out of the blue, Craig Anderson found me and convinced me to sign up for Facebook in order to get back in touch with my old friends. And guess what, one of them happens to be brother to Bob Angell's half sister. Small world!