Upside Ann

 "...You have given me a great gift, my dear, dear friend.  You have reopened by childhood.  Sit with me awhile and then return to your life.  I will keep you always in my heart." Smiling, I drew graham crackers, peanut butter, and a plastic knife from my purse and laid them on the table.  Added two Cokes in six-ouce glass bottles.  Then I drew a chair close. "You can't really visit Green Gables," I said.

 "My students were also energizing, bursting with enthusiasm, and lousy with youth." In addition: "How do you get yourself into these situations, Brennan?" "I submit well-written resumes."

 "Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which to die."

"Caffeine was not what I needed.  I was wired enough to recauk the Pentagon."  Having fun reading all of Kathy Reichs' Tempe Brennan novels.  This is number 8.  If I focus, I can get through one in 2 days.  How's that for an accomplishment?  If you come back in 2025 and peruse my books read, you'll note that the first 7 books are listed in descending order.  My mistake.  I was copying from the "Also by" list and wasn't thinking about how they were presented.  (Note - that list of books has a big gap between July and November.  Drat! "There's no such thing as bad weather, only the wrong clothing."  Scottish fisherman's proverb Winter is coming.  Maybe.