Good morning! I hope this letter finds you doing well!
 
My daughter is away for a few days visiting a friend, so I'm going to take advantage of being the only human in the apartment and finish writing Haven Hill. I'm SO close to the end of it, and I just needed a bit of uninterrupted time. I always get so excited near the end of a book that I find the last part by far the easiest to write. I know in my head what's going to happen and I desperately want to send it through the keyboard to my document.
 
Once I finish, I'll spend some time revising, then it goes to my proofreaders, then to Amazon to be listed. So, if you need me, I'll be over here, curled up on my cozy thrifted sofa, tip-typing away and sending questionable messages about the plot to some of my friends. Our search histories are certainly ... incriminating ... right about now! 
 
The best thing about being a renter is that when an expensive repair is needed, I don't have to pay for it. The worst thing about being a renter is that the company from which I rent will do that expensive repair on their own schedule, instead of RIGHT FLIPPIN' NOW. The air conditioner saga continues. I've been approved for a new AC unit, but "sometime next week" is my date of installation. I love to sleep in a nice, cold room, and my desire to do so has been foiled for weeks now. Oh well. At least I don't have to pay for the replacement!
 
We may be looking at some dramatic price jumps as the tariffs are now in effect. Groceries are already so expensive that it's difficult to imagine prices going up even more. But, obviously, vendors are not going to eat the entire cost of the tariffs - they'll pass it on to the consumer. All we can do about that is either choose to buy the items or choose not to. Rarely has it been more important to grow and produce what you can, to buy in bulk, and to prep like crazy. Maybe our epic disaster isn't going to be an EMP or a war or a supervolcano. Maybe it's just going to be prices climbing ever upward until normal folks can't afford to eat or have utilities. Maybe that is the major disaster of our lifetime.
 
While that is a terribly disturbing thought, remember these things.
 
1.) You can only do what you can do. If you are in an apartment building, disabled, or have other reasons you cannot have a garden this year, don't spend time worrying and wishing. Spend time doing what you can - grabbing last day of sale items and preserving them, buying a commonly used product in bulk, or changing the way you eat to be able to better manage the inflation.
 
2.) It's not just you. The media would like you to think your financial problems (if you have them) are you're own fault, perhaps for voting for a candidate they dislike, perhaps because they think you're lazy and uneducated. But this isn't the case at all. You are not the only one suffering, it is not because you ordered pizza for the kids last week, and it is not a moral failing to be struggling financially.
 
3.) This too shall pass. That always sounds flippant and dismissive and I don't mean it that way. What I mean is that I've been in terrible situations - worse than the current one - and it always got better. I had to make changes and absorb losses, yes, but I always got through it. You will too. It's not always going to be this difficult, I promise. Just hang in there - brighter days are coming.
 
Now, go read some prepper fiction and catch up on Haven Hill with this new chapter!  I look forward to your thoughts about it in the comments section.
 
Have a truly wonderful weekend.
 
Stay safe.
Be happy.
 
Love,
Daisy
 
 
 

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