Happy to receive this note from an acquaintance:
Hi Beth:
Just wanted to let you know that my daughter Elka brought your book All My Loving along on our trip to China – we are still in Shanghai. She thoroughly enjoyed it – and at her urging (and after listening to her laugh and ask me lots of questions) – I read it – in basically two days – and LOVED it. Enjoyed so many aspects of it – thanks!

Charlotte’s Castle, Fashioning the Beatles: fall is busytime
Though the weather continues sublime, I know it’s fall, because the garden is shutting down and suddenly there’s so much