I aim to go next year, and to spend the year prepping for it.

Can’t wait to hear about your account and hear how loudly everyone cheered for your essay! You go, girl!

funny aside – i “found” you a few years ago when Fussy blogged about your business card. I was thrilled you were nearby. Thanks for extending friendship to me! Hopefully I’ll be better able to participate and reciprocate that friendship this year.

Hope you received my telephone message the other day when no one was home at your house. It was sort of a deja vu exciting news bit for me as I remembered one day way back in your early writings on Rolf Ave. when you were chosen – in 6th grade OR Jr High – to read one of your short stories – or maybe it was a poem – at St. Paul’s Landmark Building where lots of important things happen and THAT, too, was a giddy moment!! I hope Bryan can capture some of your “moment in the spotlight” with his many ways of doing that! I am SO happy for you! Much love, MOM