I smiled back
It’s happened before, but this was the first time I really noticed it. One of the pretty ladies in a TV commercial smiled at the camera – smiled at me – and I smiled back. Like we knew each other. Like she was my friend.
The stay at home experience is starting to change me. I’m not watching more than two hours of TV a night, but the pretty people on TV are starting to feel like my friends.
As I’ve said before, Thank God for books. I can get really absorbed in a novel, but I can still maintain some kind of personal distance from the characters, which I cannot do nearly as well with the pretty people on television.
I’m reading a lot more than I’m watching TV, which is just the way I want to keep it. I do not want to start cultivating any imaginary friends.
About The Author
Jeff Heller
I'm a historical novelist who focuses on Colonial America, particularly the French-Canadians who settled North America in the 1600s and 1700s. My first novel, A FALSE DAWN, features Louise, a young wife and mother who must search for her son and her husband when the English invade their home in French-held Montreal and torch the city.