Balderdash!

I drove down the long gravel driveway to the Weymouth mansion Thursday afternoon with a prayer of gratitude on my lips. Coming here is like flipping a switch from the world of laundry and grocery shopping and doctors’ appointments and phone calls to the world of writing and nature and friends. Sarah Shaber was the first…

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First Full Day at the Mansion

We all arrived at the Weymouth Center for the Arts for our writers’ retreat yesterday and immediately got to work, followed by dinner (Sarah made yummy quiches), lots of M and M peanuts, and a rousing game of Apples to Apples. This morning, we had our goal-setting meeting for the day. Mary Kay Andrews, as always,…

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Good Day, Bad Day, Funny Day

    The Good Day: I had lunch with two fellow writers, Brenda Witchger and Sarah Shaber. We talked about Sarah’s work-in-progress, which is going to be so good, and the synopsis for what we lovingly call Bren’s “vinyl book” (the vinyl refers to old records), which is going to equally wonderful. And we had terrific humongous…

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