I have a new collection. My readers know all about my teapot collection and my massive book collection . Well, it seems only right to let you in on my latest collection that I can hardly keep a secret any longer.

Bruises. You read that correctly. Bruises.

You see this week is the Annual AAUW Used Book Sale and each year that I have helped I have managed to collect bruises. Some might say I am klutzy. Some might say I am careless. Some might say I am inattentive. The truth is that all of these are the truth.

I am now sporting bruises on my foot and ankle, both arms and a massive one above my knee where I ran into something as I was racing around like a lunatic at the book sale.

But it is all good and our sale has been fabulous. Low temperatures, lots of sales and most of all —camaraderie. You see, when you aren’t busy, when you aren’t looking for that next treasure of a book, you talk. You catch up. You meet members you don’t know. You chat up customers who have very interesting stories. You duck as the birds who reside in the gym swoop and fly in and out. It’s a fun place to be.

If bruises are the end result and my latest collection I decided to embrace it because, after all, they won’t last forever.