Maggie Monday: The Bookish Edition

Maggie always enjoyed reading. She would regularly buy hardback novels. When she fell behind in reading them, she would promise that the new ones she continued to buy would be read "when she retired." Many of these were Sidney Sheldon novels, and I illicitly read my first one--which I recall had a person being delivered in a packing crate to someplace because they were a spy or something, but also Hot Sex, or is that the plot of every Sheldon novel?--when I was staying over.

Unfortunately, when Maggie retired from her first job twenty years ago, she was already beginning to have trouble with her eyes. She needed the large print books.

Now that she has retired completely, she's lost an eye. I bought her a book on CD last Christmas, Carrie Fisher's Wishful Drinking, because if there is one thing that Maggie loves more than a Sidney Sheldon novel, it's a celebrity biography. At last report she still had not listened to it. She keeps thinking it's a DVD, and she doesn't have a DVD player. I think I'm going to have to visit and put it in the CD player for her.

May I say this to you about that (a favorite Maggie-ism)? Don't put off until tomorrow the things you should enjoy today.