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For your information please read this code with your phone camera app, click on the pop-up bar across the top of the screen to open a menu for ways to keep in touch.   Printers Row LIT FEST: Chicago MARGOT CELEBRATED MAC'S (HER DAD)100TH BIRTHDAY AT THE PRINTERS ROW LIT FEST! Thank you for your patience receiving A WWII Saga. Labor and paper shortages with shipping delays caused late deliveries.  Please let me know if you haven't received yours.  Our shortages harkens back Mac & Irene's making the best of little in their 1945 wedding. This excerpt is from If Trees Could Talk:      "Irene winked in the photographs that ran in the Chicago Tribune, News Sun and Daily Herald. Mac attempted to calm the adrenaline triggered from the camera flashes. Only his eyes penetrated into the terror he squelched inside. The scapula hung under Mac’s shirt; Irene’s was in her clutch. All were celebrating the end of the war, rations, separation and coming together. Whoops and hoots, cascading rice as they ducked arm-in-arm through the gathered group of family friends on the Basilica steps. Irene’s parents had been married here in quieter, but just as uncertain times.       Mac was gazing into Irene’s gray hazy-blue eyes. She had a solemn, warm, girl-like calm face. There was something ethereal about her, as if she always gracefully carried a bouquet of fresh flowers. Irene looked into his sky-blue wide and excited eyes. She handed him her suitcase. He had the keys to Bess’s Buick. They were giddy with their plans for a road trip. She watched his agile, delicate hands, artist’s hands, take the steering wheel.   They drove to the Knickerbocker with tin cans rattling behind them. Only recently, tin had been rationed. Soap was flagrantly wasted to write Just Married on the back window. They passed the sound of waves on the outer drive. Combining food stamps, Mac’s GI bill salary and a reduced- price reception hall, they celebrated a glorious wedding. Capturing every posed moment of cake cutting and feeding each other fork loads of Agatha’s whipped cream frosted angel food cake, Bess’ brown-sugar dipped figs, dark-chocolate macaroons and William’s pineapples from California." Mac and Irene: A WWII Saga & If Trees Could Talk are at Amazon A friend sent this article, click on the photo to read about Gwendolyn Brooks Monument  in the New York Times!              Or, copy and paste in your browser: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/18/t-magazine/female-monuments-women.html If you have a chance to read the book would you contribute a couple of sentences review on Amazon:  https://www.amazon.com/dp/1736767704#customerReviews  It would mean the world to my friends at Aquarius Press. For AWWII Saga Special Edition:  www.AquariusPress.myShopify.com My sister Deborah was interviewed about Dad's art with Mario Linhares at the University of Lisbon https://www.instagram.com/tv/CT4q7MPlxn9/utm_source=ig_web_copy_link If you would like to share my newsletter with friends, please pass this along: https://margotmcmahon.us19.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=68ea4aeb23dfd342dc657441f&id=7ff5010ac7