Welcome Friends and Readers

This is what started it all.


We'd probably admit that it started sooner, but this is the tangible evidence that something is going on.


You see...Cindy wrote a book.  


Well, we did it together, but it was her story, and her characters, and her "wake up in the middle of the night and write," that produced it.


We call this blog "A New Shade" because our website is called Shade Tree Writings, but also because being a literary couple, writing and reading together, and managing the supporting technology is a new shade in the tapestry of our relationship. 


We've been together for almost 35 years, raised two, now married, girls, enjoy granddaughters, lived in foreign countries, run marathons (although Cindy's part was greeting me at the finish line), and a bunch of other stuff.


And we've been together in a lot of places, but now we're together here, in the world-wide community of readers and writers.  Cindy's always been a reader, I have always sort of tipped my hat to writing.  Now she's writing, and I'm reading, and together, we're Shadetreewritings.  


You can find us on the web at shadetreewritings.com  We'd love for you to join us there.