PEGGY FIELDING'S NEWSLETTER
Vol. 8Number June/July 2008

OLD SLOWPOKE

Well, yes. I have good excuses for being slow with the newsletter. Before we go into that, turn to the archives and read this letter there. You'll find more color and more geegaws. www.peggyfielding.com will put you there.

ONE OF MY PET PEEVES

It seems we Americans have forgotten (or thrown away) the answer to the polite phrase, "Thank you." Nowadays, when a TV person or a real life person says those words to someone, the other person invariably answers, "Thank you." that is not the correct reply to the polite phrase, "Thank you."

The correct answer ...all together now...is, "YOU'RE WELCOME."

WHAT I'VE READ RECENTLY

Well, my friends, you'll be shocked to learn that I've been reading a cookbook. WHAT? Not only that, it's a cookbook that also offers prayers, Bible verses and Goodie-Two-Shoes stories with each recipe. WHAT?

Peggy, this doesn't sound like something you'd read voluntarily! Well, no... but one chapter in the book had me crying. Peggy, you cried while reading a cookbook? WHAT?

I had good reasons to read (and to cry).

I cried because one chapter dealt with a dinner with Miss Hazel which we enjoyed at Jackie King's house. It brought back my Mom when she was well and still living alone, planting gardens, going to church and being her normal vigorous self.

Yeah, the book was written by my Goodie-Two-Shoes pal, Jacqueline King with her daughter Jennifer. The cover art was a painting by my not so entirely Goodie-Two- Shoes pal, the Reverend Romney Nesbitt.

My tears are falling even as I think about the new book. I can recommend this tome, without reservation, to every man, woman and child on the planet. Nothing in this book would corrupt anyone... it might even uncorrupt some folks. (Is Uncorrupt a word?). You can buy DEVOTED TO COOKING at any bookstore or order it from Amazon or AWOCBooks.com.

Oh, thanks for telling us about this lovely, decent book, Peggy. You're welcome, dear readers.

THE HENS

The FOXY HENS are still working on GOING BUMP IN THE NIGHT. We hope it will be out by October, Here is a silly drawing I made for our editor to remind him of some of the stuff in our new book. Yeah, oil rigs, ghosts, pigs and other strange things.

WHAT I'M READING RIGHT NOW (AND A CHANCE TO WIN A BOOK)

Do any of you remember Johnny Quarles? I picked up my signed copy of his 1995 book, SHADOW OF THE GUN, from Avon. He was such a good writer. Diabetes felled that good young writer soon after SHADOW came out. You will probably have to buy his titles from a second-hand bookstore. Or maybe Avon still makes them available? The first reader to report back to me about the availability of Quarles books may choose one of my books as reward. I really recommend this writer.

"Thanks Peggy."

"You're welcome, readers."

PEGGY FIELDING WITH A GHASTLY BLACK EYE.

I recently had a cataract removed and though it took very little time it gave me a huge black eye which lasted for days, and no makeup allowed for the first week or so.

My comment at my romance meeting? "Well, that Jackie King packs a hell of a punch!"

To all other curious looks or inquiries, I simply smiled and said, "You oughta see the other guy."

SEX

Only with Dusty's LOGAN, of course, although I love the Allstate Insurance ads and would be thrilled to have him come by my house to sell a policy to me. Craig Ferguson is still lovely to look at, also, but he is always blowing up cats as well as bad-mouthing those charming animals, so he is off my "Lover List."

UNTIL SEPTEMBER

And, of course, I still love all of you, my readers. Margaret Rose, have you given up on me?

PEGGY MOSS FIELDING