I am involved with an incredible new event. Tahoe WordWave, a Festival of Story • October 9-11, 2015 • It is a free festival for readers, writers, and lovers of story in South Lake Tahoe, featuring dozens of readings, workshops, panels, music, and plays. Every culture uses story to entertain, educate, preserve history and tradition, and connect. WordWave will celebrate words and story in all its forms.

We escaped to the Wine Country to plan, brainstorm and drink wine, of course.

Cyndy, who has always been the hostess with the mostest, opened her magical la maison du coucou (the house of the cuckoo) to us, and I never wanted to leave.
It is nestled in the hills of Angwin, a town of contradictions. Named in 1874 for Edwin Angwin who ran a resort on the land the town now occupies, it has been home to a large number of Seventh-day Adventists since 1909. Although many of the residents refrain from drinking alcohol because of religious beliefs, the area is becoming a popular area for winemakers to plant vineyards and build wineries (and for guests to drink wine).

After dinner we strolled alongside vineyards, wild blackberries bushes and darling sweet peas with their profusions of color.