Hmmmm????
I've been busy writing assigned articles, making time to blog or work on my book difficult. Make that impossible. At least the articles I've been writing have been interesting.
Right now, I have a cover article in eat. drink. MISSISSIPPI magazine. It's about Janet Wagner, the Kitchen Goddess. It was a tough article to write, what with having to go to one of her cooking classes and trying everything she made!
Speaking of cooking, I met Susan Puckett this week at the Millsaps Arts & Lecture Series. She was there talking about her cookbook, Eat Drink Delta: A Hungry Traveler's Journey Through the Soul of the Delta. (I'm seeing a trend here...lots of eating and drinking!). I coordinated the reception after her lecture, and I had my committee make recipes out of the book. Oooooh my was everything good!
And speaking of authors, I met up with Fannie Flagg at Lemuria recently. She was there doing a reading from her new book, The All-Girl Filling Station's Final Reunion.
Fannie and I go way back...at least three years, when we met at Girlfriend Weekend in Jefferson, Texas. At the Friday night dance, everyone was supposed to dress like their favorite character from a book. She dressed up like Pippi Longstocking, complete with horizontal braids. We danced all night and had a ball.
(The red-headed pink-boa'd women are my book club buddies!)
I've been writing perspectives for Portico, a fitness article for VIP Jackson, and some really interesting articles for Delta Business Journal and Delta Magazine. I've also been doing some business consulting work for an electrical contractor (a 3-part class on writing for business) and a house designer. I'm not complaining...it's good work and I am thankful for it! But I'm sure hoping I can figure out how to carve out time to write my book and to do some more blogging. I guess it all boils down to butt-in-chair.
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