Life since retirement as branch manager of Miller Branch Library of Fort Smith Public Library has been occupied by writing my true crime novel, Blind Rage. It seems that if I wasn't talking about it, I was thinking about it. My long-time friends, no doubt, grew tired of hearing about each new bit of information I gleaned from a visit with one of my many contacts who ultimately became my new friends.
New friends, Rusty and Linda Myers, provided me with a special insight to the Park family. Rusty was a childhood friend of Sam Hugh's, and his wife, Linda, remembered the kindnesses offered her by Sam Hugh when she and Rusty were dating and then married. It was with great sadness that they witnessed Sam Hugh's decline. I'm forever grateful to them for sharing hours of conversation with me. We sat around their kitchen table during bad weather, which gave me the opportunity to view their comfortable home and lovely art work. Their taste matched mine, and we had a lot of fun talking about each piece. And on warm days, I was treated to the view of their back yard where baskets of petunias and geraniums hung from metal hangers fashioned by a local artist, who also designed some of their garden art. Ferns stood elegantly in shady corners along with hostas and impatiens. Often I arrived a little early to find Linda on her hands and knees weeding, her face covered in a new crop of freckles that made her tanned face even cuter.
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