"Hudson was overflowing with people who'd successfully reinvented themselves. I was a corporate lawyer in the city for years, and then I moved to Hudson and became a flower farmer/doll maker/antique dealer/chef/arborist/alcoholic, and I never looked back. 'I moved to Hudson to reinvent my handwriting,' she imagined telling someone over drinks."

character stories that weren't exactly for me but the appropriate amount of ribbing at Hudson to make it enjoyable.