I headed down to Cottage Grove today to teach a writing workshop to some high school students and talk with them about puppetry. Â Lokiko Hall, their teacher, had talked to me about arranging this when the Wordos group hosted me in Eugene.
Because she’s kind of fantastic, she also arranged for a booksigning and reading event at The Book Mine.  What a lovely store! It’s a combination book and flower store and has a charming interior. Gail, the proprietress, met me at the door with a corsage. I wish everyone did this. It makes a girl feel quite special to be plied with flowers.
Gail also made tiny cucumber sandwiches and had strawberries, chocolates and meringue.  We had a tiny mix-up in that the copies of Shades of Milk and Honey they’d ordered hadn’t arrived yet. Whoops! Fortunately, since I’d developed the habit of keeping an envelope of bookplates in my bag, I signed those and folks prepaid for books.
Oh! And there was a copy of The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes on the shelves which one of the audience members picked up just because of the title, then realized I was in the anthology so purchased it.
Lokiko was lovely throughout and guided me from point to point. It was a long but very pleasant day.