A real treat being out in the community with Best of Balancing Act has been running into column readers from way back, especially when they themselves are writers. One such person is Cindy May.
Cindy stopped by to say hi at the Columbus Book Festival. She first got in touch back in 2015 when I wrote a piece about being addicted to books. Cindy, it turned out, suffered from the same addiction – so much so that she framed the column back then and her husband took a picture. She says her book addiction set in after she got married and especially after she and her husband moved into their first house. In case you didn’t know – and like to learn something new every day – Cindy says there’s a Japanese word for our addiction: tsundoku.
Happily, the book addiction column (“Help! I’m A Biblioholic”) made it into the new book, along with another of her favorites, “Book Groups Divided Between Haves and Have Nots.” I’m honored to know that Best of Balancing Act will be going on vacation with Cindy to Cape Cod this summer.
