I am a writer at heart. It's taken me almost 48 years, if you want to include my early childhood years, to realize that fact. People have told me that I have a way with words.

'View From Behind the Hedge' , or VFBH, is my view of the world outside my picture window and beyond our privacy hedge. So what will I write about?

Maybe birds. Since my husband and I put up our bird feeder and squirrel feeder in close proximity to each other, I've watched the smaller birds sneak into the feeder to steal the squirrel food, and vice versa.

Maybe the city deer. They come into our backyard to eat the windfallen apples. I see them trotting up the street as if they owned the pavement.

Maybe the latest book I'm reading. I read out loud to my husband while he's driving, and our latest is Thomas Hardy's 'Far From the Madding Crowd'. He hates Bathsheba Everdene! I read myself to sleep at night with Ron and Janet Benrey's mystery 'Dead As a Scone'. I'm not a big tea fan, but this little book about a murder in a British tea museum is interesting.

I could write about any one of a number of topics because I have so many interests. Anyone play klezmer clarinet, or like klezmer music? Are you a Civil War buff? Do you have some good homecooked recipes?

Let's talk.