Letters Books Paradise Author Events Readers Photos Reviews Press Home   Dear Radish Readers, It is now the fifth month of this wondrous year of 2007 and I am guessing that you are all as desperate for a long stretch of summer as I am….well except for the part about school soon being over and poker parties from the college kids in the basement until dawn, and teenagers laughing about curfew, and the loss of my quiet mornings, afternoons and evenings so I can keep cranking on this book. Don't you just love run on sentences? It is a whirl of activity here as 23 things, and then some, are always happening at once. We are in the middle of soccer season -- five games this week -- and trying to get the math grade up and writing books and cleaning out the garage, fertilizing the grass and waiting for our little daily duck visitors, whom we have named Pat and Dick in honor of my parents, to have some baby ducks….maybe even a new little Krissy. So here we go with the latest…hang on. On May 1 I will be heading towards Nicaragua for a week of adventurous research. I don't want to say too much about this trip because it's going to be in the novel I am working on right now and I want you to have something glorious to look forward to when you read this book in 2009. So stay tuned but I promise to give you a few tidbits when I write next month's letter. I need to write the front pages for Searching for Paradise in Parker, PA. which will be released in January and I can't tell you how excited I am to do the final edits and to have you read this book. Every time I think about it I just want to put my head back and laugh into the clouds. Oh….this is so cool. The Sunday List of Dreams is out on audio from Recorded Books and performed by Christina Moore. I have to tell you I just started listening to it and it made my heart stop to hear my work this way. I am totally bowled over by the power of the spoken word and the fabulous job that she does and it's given me a whole new perspective about my work. If you can get a copy and you will see what I mean. It's just a total "wow". I continue to do phone book talks and continue to love every minute of them. Remember if your book group wants to invite me in for a phone chat just send an email to radcalf@krisradish.com on this site and we will see what happens. It has now been almost seven months since I started working out at a new fitness center near where I live and one month since I realized that I needed to step it up even more. Oh my God. I have started spinning class, on top of my weight lifting class, stretching, and a few other classes and right now if I move too fast I feel as if I have been in a car accident. I love spin class but it is hard core kick-butt stuff and just what I need to get me to the next level of my "Get Your Body Back" plan that I hope will keep me young and feeling fabulous. Time will tell my sisters. My last golf lesson was a winner and I am now going to get new clubs and hit the links and the driving range to see if all this hard work makes any sense. I'll be hanging out at a few Chicago area golf courses this summer, and a few around here, to gather some information for yet another novel so be careful- I might be watching your swing. The highlight of this month, if I survive the jungle and what the water does to your stomach, is going to be a trip to New York at the end of the month to participate in Book Expo America, the huge book trade show event where Bantam Dell, aka Random House, has asked me to give a talk and to sign books. This is a fabulous opportunity for me to meet with "my people" and to meet booksellers, buyers and librarians from all across the nation and I am honored and excited about this great opportunity. Okay - we also found a prom dress for Rachel, which was way too expensive, but I have to admit it's pretty hot. Prom is next weekend when I am gone and I am just going to cover my head and hum really loud that entire evening. I hope spring finds you hatching all those dreams we keep talking about, dusting off the lawn chairs, and realizing that any thing is absolutely possible. I am always thinking of you and sending you a Radish hug to get you through whatever you need to get through. Always,
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