Ridgely Train Station, 1897

The following is an excerpt taken from an article in The Caroline Sun, from Saturday, February 14, 1908

TIME

Time flies. This is a trite saying. We do not always realize it's truth. A young man starts out in life with high hopes and strong ambition. The years ahead of him look long to him. The day of his achievement seems in a far distant future. But the years pass, each succeeding one more swiftly than its predecessor. Soon he finds the time becoming so short in which he may accomplish his plans. In work or pleasure the changes come, and the time has flown so fast that account of it may not be taken. When one comes to middle life a year is scarce begun before it is gone. It is now that one begins to be impressed with the truth: time flies. The old world, the sun and moon and stars go on evenly in their courses; their pace is not changed. Yet how different to the one who, instead of seeing a summit to attain, looks down rather than up, and sees in the near distance the brink of a dark river to which he is rapidly nearing. Youth cannot too highly value the years, the months, the days, even the hours as they pass. Each day is a step toward age. Do not waste time...

In 2015, when I moved from Centreville to Ridgely, MD, I knew that my next novel series would be set in this quaint, historic town. The old train station was still holding up, and I knew that it would make the perfect cover for the next book. As luck would have it, while I was busy finishing the last series, the Ridgely Historical Society decided to undertake the renovation of said train station, which was completed just in time for my graphic designer, Jody Christian,  to snap some photos before the leaves turned. 

​The last few months have been pretty hectic for me, but I'm hoping things will slow down and I'll have more time and energy to focus on developing the next novel. Although I've set out at a snail's pace, I'm hopeful that as I transition from research and development into story-writing, the process will speed up.​