Partay! 

What celebrations were delayed for you during the COVID ‘pause’ to normal life these last two years? One thing a lot of us experienced was missed birthday celebrations.  

Some of us can add attending weddings – or even having weddings – celebrations for births, retirements, graduations, or gatherings for memorial services.  

As you read this, my daughter and I will be celebrating our mutually shared birthday – August 2^nd – for the first time in years. The milestone birthdays we each experienced during the heights of the pandemic came and went without much hoopla.  

But this year … This year – we are together, not just in the spirit, but in the flesh at her beautiful home in Hawaii!   

The glory of the breath-taking sights of sunsets, tropical flowers, and the enrapturing sounds of the native birds playing out in the background will all pale, when compared to the sheer joy of just being together on our day. 

Many people select special non-profit organizations to ask their birthday well-wishers to support. I am choosing to share a link to a good book just released by an author friend of mine I met in Self-Publishing School. 

If you know someone between 12 – 18 years of age or over who enjoys fantasy novels, Shaun Griffiths’ Changing Times Series would be a terrific present. 

I had read and reviewed the first book in this series, Shifters Alliance, and had somehow missed the next two – Lost Lands and Shifters Stand – but each book is free-standing in nature, so his current title, Dragon Lands, is easy to follow even though I was not current with the intervening story line.  

Griffiths’ stories are vibrant, complex, yet easy to follow – with richly painted descriptions that play out in the reader’s mind with cinematic clarity.   

I may have ‘aged out’ of this, personally unfamiliar, fantasy drama genre; but I have thoroughly enjoyed reading Shaun Griffith’s titles and plan on giving his Changing Times Series to my grandchildren – especially since I am secure in knowing it’s Grandma-approved.   

So, there will be some family celebrating going on in Kona, Hawaii today. My request is for you to check out Shaun Griffiths’ books by using the links provided in this article.  

You know we do not hound our readers with endless sales pitches, but readers who use links we provide for the select items we talk about that are available on Amazon, help in the support of keeping foodtalk4you.com online.  

Thanks, and best wishes to all in health – 

Deidre 

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