Maria and I are used to the country by now. Donkeys bumping into us, sheep charging down the hall, mad dogs barking and circling, chickens flapping. New Yorkers always take some time to adjust to a farm.

My editor Hannah Elnan is visiting for the weekend, and it is a special pleasure for me to have her here. The relationship between a writer and an editor is intimate powerful. In a way, she knows me better than I know myself.  An editor shapes a writers work, challenges it, sees it from a different perspective, makes it better and more coherent. I don’t know a good writer that does not value editing. I do. I need it. Hannah was instrumental in shaping “The Story Of Rose,” my first e-book original and she is taking the first whack at “Frieda And Me: Second Chances,” out next year.

Today Maria and I showed Hannah our lives here, including a trip to the new farm, to the town of Cambridge, to  Jenna Woginrich’s  Cold Antler Farm. And she was able to meet and see some of the things she had only read about. We invited some friends over tonight for dinner to meet her and she has volunteered to cook. I’m going to photograph a wedding but I look forward to the night. Will get to see Jenna,  and my friends Donna Wynbrandt and George Forss and others.