What excitement. I am about to publish my first book in a series I will call Travel Tales at the Easel. After 21 years of painting and writing about my travels to paint in Venice, IT, I am finally going to press this week. I want to stand at the end of the large press at Printing Partners in Indianapolis when the first copy rolls out and I will see my story and paintings all in vivid color and printed on a fine semi-glass paper. Then the next – and the next – all 1,000 lovely books. Most of the writing was done two years ago although I started writing about my adventures in Venice...