Connie's Corner

Planning to be busy...

My Writing Your Life History Group met yesterday at the library. Twelve of us showed up and almost everyone had a new story to read to the group, stories about teaching children to drive, a bull in a china shop (yes, literally), a son with seizures cured with brain surgery, an Elvis essay, an encounter with Dave Brubeck, a poem (eulogy) about a favorite operating-room nurse, and a story about a very weird dream involving a giant white rabbit. This was my contribution, "A Good Reason To Stay Up Late" . Yes, we have a diverse group even though we are old fogies.

One of our members heads a travel group for seniors, and I signed up for a trip to St. Augustine on the 22nd with lunch at a seafood restaurant on the St. Johns' River in Palatka. Enclosed on a bus with lots of strangers is a little scary for me. I'm not that great around people, especially ones I don't know. Do buses have wifi?

Today I have a meeting at 1:30 to learn some of the ins and outs of our WAG (http://writersalliance.org/) web site. Our webmaster is going on vacation next month so our prez and I volunteered for training...every Friday this month. This is all new to me...and I hope, learnable.

And I signed up for a Creative Non-fiction writing class, started on the 15th, at a local college about 5 minutes from my house. I talked two gals in my critique group into signing up too, so this should be lots of fun. Maybe I will learn how to spice-up my dull life stories.

until next time...c