Coming Full Circle

One of the great joys of writing this book has been receiving emails like the following from Linda Studley.

She has given me permission to share it with you.

       My brother sent me your book and I was reading it avidly when I came across one of your characters. You were describing her circumstances and I said "My God, that's my mother!" I don't mean that figuratively either!
        I flipped to the acknowledgements at the start of the book (who reads them first, really?) and there was her name, my mum!
        Thank you for immortalizing my mum in such a lovely way. She was indeed a model of how to grow old gracefully.
        As I am now the coordinator of a senior's support pilot project in BC, I have an even more compelling reason to enjoy your book. I am going to suggest the Seniors Access Society here purchase at least one copy to show our visiting seniors (we get 'young' seniors here too, but my project serves seniors 65 and over).
        I am currently trying to recruit volunteers to be 'friendly visitors' for my seniors and I'd like to promote/quote your book, particularly in that volunteering is a good way to develop some of those networks that support us after we 'retire' (at least from paid work). If you'd like to visit our website to see more on the pilot project it's at www.casidc.org (CASI stands for Community Action for Seniors' Independence, the dc is for Dawson Creek, our location)
        Again, thank you for a wonderful book. It has changed how I see seniors and it has changed how I see myself becoming a senior. And it honours my Mum's grace and independence.