Maggie of the Northwest
Maggie, desperately lonely after losing both her husband and infant son, married again. Badly. Her new husband Frank was so controlling for so long that when he eventually died, she continued to do things his way.
And his ways had never been her ways.
The tiny bit of impulsiveness left in Maggie was limited to her yarn-buying habit.
Then three years after Frank died, the 40 years of brain-dust began to blow away, and below it all, Maggie found herself.
Maggie’s story plays out in the Pacific Northwest, in a remote corner of Washington State. In a small town a long distance from the big cities. At the edge of the ocean, where if you could see far enough you would be looking at Japan.
How did it happen?
I thought I’d ask her about her waking up. That way we’ll know her story in her own words.
Here’s one interview:
and here’s another:
Maggie is of course a fictional character. But just in case you know a widow over 65 who is lonely or in a rut, like Maggie, her emerging self might be a hopeful example.
Because waking up one day could happen to other women, to all of us, in our own ways.
At very least, I wanted to see how Maggie saw it, not just impose my own POV. Let me know: Is she the hero of her life I think she is?
Peg Lewis is a great-grandmother, a linguist, and a life-long writer and scientist. She was born in New England. She also lived in San Diego, Spain, Switzerland, Beijing, New Zealand, and the Pacific Northwest. She currently resides in Tucson in a 3-generation household where she is next-to-oldest.
Peg believes in Old Love, a rich genre not to be confused with young romance. Old Love is about relationships, deep, enduring, and complicated. She knows: she has been married to space scientist and author John S Lewis for 57 years, and if she is old, he is yet older.
You can read about Martin, his neighbor Maggie, and their time together in the islands of the Pacific Northwest in the Always Maggie series, on Amazon.
Or start with a free bonus chapter, Sandbagging; you will be asked to join my email list and receive tidbits from my writing from time to time, and also some snippets of the insightful, also humorous, science fiction of my dear old love, Dr. John S. Lewis, planetary chemist and author of Mining the Sky and more.
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