And Welcome to another mother runner. This is Sarah Bo and Shay. I am joined by

Ellison Weist. Hello, Ellison. Hello, it's that time of year again it sure is it's all I'm always delighted when it's this time of year because we get to talk about books

Yes, and I understand that you've had a little more reading time perhaps.

Yes, I have, yes. Carol and the kids moved into a rental house back in late September and so it's just the two of us

rattling around in this big house along with the dog and a lot of books.

Mm-hmm Your big childhood home. I still never it never stops

amazing me that you live in the house that you grew up in. Yes yes it is a little sometimes it really does sort of take me back.

Mm-hmm. Yeah. Do you mean that like will you, will memories just flood back to you like, you know,

you're pulling a book off a shelf or I don't

know reaching for something in the baking cabinet? Not as much as you would think it's sort of

odd things in fact I find that I'm have more moments like that in the neighborhood when I'm walking.

Like our library is in my old elementary school.

Oh how wonderful.

Yeah, yeah, so it's, you know, less than a half a mile from here.

And of course the first couple of times I went there, I would, you know, say to the l librarian I went to elementary school here and she would look at me like

yeah I've heard this 800 times from oh isn't that wonderful? So I stop, but the grandkids are just amazed by that, you know.

Right.

Oh my good.

I also can't believe that you were a half mile from your library. I mean could it be more

perfectly situated for you? Yes, yes I know I mean I'm constantly and also the area around

there has a great running spot where you can literally like run a mile

down this road with these beautiful older homes like from you know around the turn

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