How would you describe your family or your childhood?
Detached and lonely.
What was your greatest talent?
Pleasing others.
Important people in your life?
My children and grandchildren.
Biggest challenge in relationships?
Being assertive.
Where to you live?
At the lake.
Do you have any enemies?
Not that I know of.
How do you feel about the place you are now?
I love the place I’m at now. Both physically - the lake and the peace and quiet outside, and emotionally - the peace and quiet inside me.
Do you have children, pets, both, or neither?
I have a dog, three children, one daughter-in-law and two grandsons.
What do you do for a living?
I was a homemaker now retired.
Greatest disappointment?
Not being courageous with my life.
Greatest source of joy?
My children and grandchildren.
What do you do to entertain yourself or have fun?
I sit outside and enjoy nature. I have my family here for wiener roasts.
What is your greatest personal failing in your view?
Same as question #10. Not being courageous with my life.
What keeps you awake at night?
The only things that keep me awake at this point in my life are listening to the sounds of the wind in the trees, or thunder, or the birds and squirrels talking to one another.
What is the most pressing problem you have at the moment?
Keeping the resort profitable.
Is there something you need or want that you don’t have? For you or someone
important to you?
I only hope all my children can find the same contentment in life that I have found.
Why don’t you have it? What is in the way.
I think as we age, contentment comes easier. We see that no one gets out of this life alive, and to stress and worry over things you can’t change, is a waste of time. My children will need to grow and mature, as most people do, before true contentment can be found.
When Ruby's father passes away, but fails to leave her the millions some expected, Steve, her husband of 35 years, moves out. Alone, but in control of her own affairs for the first time in her life, Ruby is torn between panic and relief. When she investigates the remote beach cabin her father had left her instead of his estate, she discovers a dilapidated beach resort in a remote location, seemingly untouched since its former owner, Cecelia Johansen, died under mysterious circumstances. Despite the condition of the property and rumours it is haunted, Ruby decides to move to Sunset Lake Resort, determined to find out why her father bought it, and why he left it to her.
Horror | Mystery [Stonehouse Press, On Sale: June 1, 2024, Paperback, ISBN: 9781988754567 / ]
A Snake in the Raspberry Patch is Joanne Jackson's second novel. She lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan with her husband and a border collie named Mick. If you keep your eyes peeled you will see the three of them walking every morning come rain, or shine, snow, or whatever weather Saskatchewan might throw at them.
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