Pickled Egg Pocket Wisdom

She is seventy. She lives in a little house with three sets of wind chimes. And she has decided, against all reasonable evidence, that things are mostly good.

When her favorite teacup slips and shatters on the kitchen floor, the Pickled Egg looks at the pieces and says, "Well, it was clearly time I swept and mopped." When a rabbit eats her best roses, she plants it a patch of clover. When the power goes out on a stormy Friday night, she lights every candle she owns and gets out the good china.

Pickled Egg Pocket Wisdom gathers twenty of her little lessons, one to a page, taken from the novel The Pickled Egg: Life is Good (Even When It Isn't). Some of them will make you laugh. A few are about missing someone and getting up in the morning anyway.

At 4 x 6 inches, it slips into a purse or a coat pocket, or tucks in beside a card. It makes a small, kind gift for:

• a friend who has lost someone
• a mother or grandmother who deserves a smile
• a Christmas stocking or a get well basket
• anyone having one of those weeks

Read it in five minutes. Keep it for years.