Since several people are still asking we wanted to update you on the status of the information on a charity in my mom's honor. We are exploring the children's books idea and have come up with a tentative plan but haven't gotten any details finalized.

For those of you who didn't know my mom, she had a long history with book fairs and a lifelong passion of reading/books and specifically children's literature. She started, owned and ran a book fair business called Bookwise for 20 years that did the book fairs in 20-30 of the Fairfax County public elementary schools, including Virginia Run (our neighborhood elementary school). Her passion for quality children's literature was the basis of her business and she chose each title she sold with painstaking precision to create a selection of books that represented the best in children's literature.

To honor my mom we are hoping to setup some sort of library memorial fund for her at Virginia Run Elementary where all 3 of her grandchildren (her other passion in life!) will attend elementary school and maybe even at the other Fairfax County schools where she did book fairs.

I am in contact with the librarian at Virginia Run (Catherine Conley) who I've worked with on the book fair committee and she is happy to help in any way to fulfill our wishes of memorializing my mom. Ironically, she was familiar with Bookwise book fairs from when her children attended a local Catholic school and she volunteered at the fair. The more amazing thing is that the librarian she worked with at this school was one of my mom's very favorite librarians and probably the only name in that realm that I would have recognized. It's amazing how much we are all connected without ever really knowing.

In any case, I'll keep you updated.