Carpe Bead'em (30 page)
Authors: Tonya Kappes
“What’s going on in that head of yours?”
Lucy arranges the china in the corner cabinet in our dining room.
“I was thinking about all the good
memories I had with Aunt Grace.”
“I think you can look back on all your
memories differently and make them good.” She moves the dishes around, trying
to situate them perfectly
Lucy is right. All my memories are my
memories. They all make me laugh and they all happened to me. I wouldn’t
believe the stories unless I lived it.
“What’s going on with you?” I want to
change the subject. I heard her on the phone with Beck on several occasions
since being home, but I didn’t ask. If she wants me to know, she’ll tell me.
“Well. I haven’t told you, but Beck and
I decided to stay in Chicago.” Lucy’s smile says it all.
“Great!” I can tell in her voice she has
more to say. “Take it slow and don’t rush.” I smile, thinking of Bo and all the
assumptions I let run through my mind over the past three months.
We finish putting the china and silver
in the cabinet before Bo pick me up for a real date.
I stand in the window and look over the
Chicago skyline, out into the lake. The sun is setting, creating the most
beautiful sunset I’ve seen in a long time.
Maybe it’s always been there. Maybe I
haven’t taken the time to stop and enjoy. The same holds true for my life.
Something I’ve been looking for all my
life actually
is
my life. At times within the past week, I find myself
longing for the late night calls and the crazy situations my aunt put me in.
Just like the old saying: family is like chocolate, mostly sweet with a few nuts.
Aunt Grace is both, my sweet and my nut.
The End
About the
author:
Tonya Kappes is the author of Carpe Bead ‘Em and The
Ladybug Jinx (August 2011), her debut women’s fiction novels. She’s also
the author of two short stories which can be found in the Something Spooky This
Way Comes and Believe Anthologies. Her, co-authored, non-fiction book The
Tricked-Out Toolbox, helps writers explore the best promotional and marketing
strategies for their career.
Besides being the co-founder of the beyond quirky writer’s
grog The Naked Hero (
thenakedhero.com
), she also is
co-founder of The Writer’s Guide to E Publishing
(thewritersguidetoepublishing.com).
When she’s not writing about quirky characters and
even quirkier situations, she’s busy being the princess, queen and jester of
her domain which includes her BFF husband, her four teenage boys and two dogs.
Why write a book with beading elements? Once upon a time,
Tonya was the proud co-owner of a very successful beading company, Beadnicks
LLC.
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