I am knee-deep in lettuce, and very pleasantly surprised about that because this is the first year for my garden here, and I wasn't really expecting very many of the vegetables to perform. I'd ordered up a stack of heirloom seeds back in January, started them all in paper cups, lost someof the seedlings along the way thanks to the cats, who bit their heads off whenever they felt like it, but still ended up with a fair assortment of hopeful, spindly little plants to put out in the garden when the weather warmed up.

And now we're enjoying the lettuce and the peas while the other seedlings get bigger by the second. If they keep growing like this, I'll be enveloped by a vegetable jungle come late July and be having tomatoes for breakfast. (Not a bad idea.) We'll see how it goes.

So, all is good. A library in Staten Island is kicking off their summer bookclub with Such a Pretty Girl -- hi, Paula Amore! -- vacation ideas are irresistible, I met back up with a good friend, am thinking about manuscript revisions, am percolating another new idea, and the summer shopping sales are not bad at all. We have concerts coming up and many an adventure pending, so there's much to look forward to.

Hope your June is a gorgeous one.