Dear Darklings,

Getting off Facebook combined with signing up for National Poetry Write-a-thon has opened my head to writing once again and finally. Elsie lives in my brain all the time has been there since I first saw the paintings at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle that sparked this adventure in 2009. Here is where Elsie lives in my house. The painting by Angela Simione is so huge it dominates an entire wall and deservedly so exactly the way Elsie and the other lost girls have dominated my dreams and waking hours for all these years. I'm putting Henry together for an April 1st deadline.

Mockingbird wish me luck.