I am usually doing research on something or other and sometimes a lot of something for my novels. So much of my reading time is used up by research. We live on Cape Cod in a house on a fresh water marsh, in mixed oak and pine woods. We have vegetable gardens, fruit trees and bush fruit and grapevines, lots of flowering bushes and flowers. It's outside a village.
People here work in shellfish farming, the building trades, servicing tourists.
There are a lot of artists and writers who live here year round. The summer people tend to be more affluent than the year rounders. Right now, I have five. Malkah acts as her mother. In the Spring of 2000, Ira brought home a Burmese kitten for my birthday.