Lenore Skomal, writer, career journalist and public speaker, is a veteran newspaper columnist. Burnt Toast: Musings on Living, Loving and Saying Goodbye offers a compact collection of some of her favorite columns. It is the first of many such collections to be published that span her career. Inside these pages, you will find wonderfully crafted pieces of wit and wisdom, sensitively written with a touch of humor as well as insight. Lenore Skomal is also the author of 15 commercially published books. Her first nonfiction title, Keeper of Lime Rock: The remarkable true story of Ida Lewis, America's most famous female lighthouse keeper (Running Press 2002) won prestigious honors from the New York Public Library and accolades from Publisher's Weekly and Booksense. It has been re-released by Globe Pequot (2010) under the title Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter.