Böcker av Rose Baldwin

Claire and her friends are in their local bar when they hear the governor's order that restaurants and bars must close as a way of slowing the spread of COVID. Ronnie says out loud what others wonder to themselves, "Can he do that?" She and everyone else soon learn he can, and has.The seasonal residents who flock each winter to the California desert community Claire calls home, flee as the pandemic worsens, leaving the locals, who are delighted at the prospect of a spring without tourists to cater. Claire and her friends enjoy the casual easy sense of community that develops during the pandemic. As it ends, they miss the quiet of sheltering in place.This is a book about friendship and decency.

A midcareer upset turns Earl's life upside down. Seeking a willing ear, he develops a friendship with an eighty-three-year-old palm reader who works at Mike's Magic Burgers-a restaurant where the food and some of the people are magic. She uses her palm reader's skill and wisdom to give him simple guidance that could lead him to happiness. While other patrons of Mike's Magic Burgers embrace change, Earl resists. Will Earl accept a new vision of life or cling to the notions that are making him unhappy? Mike's Magic Burgers speaks to anyone who has had to search for their place in the world. The story unfolds in a series of vignettes that explore the ordinariness of magic and how we choose to live our lives. This is an enchanting, one-of-a-kind book.

Getting old isn't as easy as most people think. Claire Wilson shares her clear-eyed wonder and goodwill in this collection of stories and poems about the often touching, sometimes humorous, issues and people in and around her retirement community.