Go Get Yourself a Writing Group!

I will spare you a post on how I hurt myself terribly watching a "Stellaluna" puppet show yesterday at the Craterian Theater.

I will spare you from knowing how I added insult to injury by dumping curry powder all over my stiff, 40 year-old self this morning.

Instead, I will plug Christy, who has to set aside writing this week to attend the Gun & Knife Trade Show in Las Vegas.

Christy met me yesterday morning (pre-puppet show accident) in pouring rain at the bottom of Lithia Park. We walked ourselves to the top, mulling over the very last part of my Drain revision.

The thing is, I was rehashing all the edits Christy had given me (that I didn't take) a while back when we'd met for tacos. Like a good writing partner, she asked me first what I was thinking, and somehow held back uproarious laughter as I spit out everything about making the conclusion exactly the way she'd suggested.

We walked and talked, then after I hurt myself at the puppet show, I came back and re-wrote the last two pages of my story.

A good writing partner is hard to find. I know it. And I have four of them.

Thank you, Christy. Bring me back a bayonet!

Night Out In Ashland

The other night, Daney and I went to the fabulous 25th Annual summer ballet in Lithia Park.


The costumes were more beautiful than ever. So was the dancing.

And Daney was her usual cute self.














After the show, we took pictures in the amazing park.

And the boys called us three times to see when we were coming
home. With ice cream.

Me, Wet But Happy

So, a super cool editor gave me some suggestions on a manuscript, and without re-reading or re-writing a single word yet, I've just thought and thought about them.

I really wanted to do what this editor was asking me to do. But I couldn't think up the vessel to deliver it.

After some serious teaching today and then a few hours of being a mom, I braved a downpour and strolled through Lithia Park (Oregon hasn't realized it's Spring yet). And by golly, it came to me! Right by the Hydrangeas!

I think I might have an idea!