Let's go Fishing!

Reel it in!  Try your hand at writing with writers' circle!  March 30, Wednesday mornings from 10-noon, we meet at my home on Carmen's Bay and work on words.  This month we'll be trying
1.  Hook readers with spicy titles
2. Bait readers with intriguing first lines
3.  Reel in readers with a memorable mesage
IT'S FUN to create and discuss writing.  We'll try essays and short stories, poetry and flash fiction.  As Eleanor Roosevelt said, :You must do the thing you think you cannot do."  Face it, you've always thought about writing your ideas.  Now DO IT! 
E-mail me at writerscircle@q.com or call 952-471-7152 about the writing class.

"Our real weakness is not to acknowledge the extent of our power."  Pearl Buck

no more snow...ALMOST!

ALMOST no more snow on Carmen's Bay; slick ice coats the surface of Lake Minnetonka.  Yesterday a cross-country skiier was sliding across our Bay.  Today, even the snowmobiles will question the safety of the ice.  LOVE these days of 50 degrees.  Spring is actually arrivingt!  I see a few nubbins of plant shoots in my garden.  Puddles abound; gooey mud is everywhere.  Buddy, my Beagle, has such messy feet, his little paws have to be wiped many times a day as he loves to romp outside in the water and mud. 

The view out my window has an absence of color.  Only white and gray are in existence.  But I know.  By the weekend, I'm betting on a few patches of greening grass.  I'm waking up from my winter sluggishness, getting out the seed catalogues and hanging up the baking with sugar and butter.  Enough of sweet calories!  Time to get out and walk once more...

PAT--FROM MY WINDOW: CATCALLS & CARDINALS

PAT--FROM MY WINDOW: CATCALLS & CARDINALS: "WHAT A MORNING! CARDINALS ARE CAT-CALLING THEIR BIRDY PALS AT 6AM WHEN I BRAVE THE ELEMENTS TO GET THE NEWSPAPER OUTSIDE...AND IT'S LI..."

PAT--FROM MY WINDOW: new writing class offered

PAT--FROM MY WINDOW: new writing class offered: "It's SPRING! Let's go fishing to hook new readers! This 4 week Writers' Circle class, with on-line classes offered also, will be..."

new writing class offered

It's SPRING!  Let's go fishing to hook new readers!  This 4 week Writers' Circle class, with on-line classes offered also, will begin March 30 and continue until April 20.  We'll meet in my home on Casco Pt of Lake Minnetonka from 10-12 AM with a friendly, lively coffee discussion at 9:30.  Naturally, I'll have fresh pasteries for writers to munch on...
We'll want to
1. Hook readers with spicy titles
2. Bail raders with intriguing first lines
3. Reel in readers with a memorable message

"You must do the thing you think you cannot do."  Eleanor Roosevelt

Our real weakness is not to acknowledge the extent of our power."  Pearl Buck

Take the challenge to do something you've always thought about...WRITE NOW! 
Call 952-471-7152 or email writerscircle@q.com with questions

art, sun, new energy

"As the sun colours flowers, so does art colour life."  Elbert Hubbard  So goes my life...my new interest in painting with acrylics has enlivened my days with new color and energy.  My first work "Red Chair Insouciance" featured a gal "with attitude" relaxing in her red chair.  I just sent that piece off as a birthday present to my pal in New Mexico who covets my red chairs.  My second work is of two metal lawn chairs rocking on a fall lawn of scattered leaves...I really like that one!  It feels good!   That feeling comes through with bold brush strokes and vivid color in the paintings.  Now I'm working on two others more complicated: backgrounds of purple and fuchia squares highlight giant sunflowers.  Another is of a French appearing street which fades away as the buildings lead up a hill.  I love the houses of pinks, purples, oranges and  blues..so like those quaint buildings we saw in Provance when traveling there to Kate's place where she was a summer girl in France.  Delightful sunny homes on the Mediterranan fiilled with sunshine where diners broke into song.  What a memory!

CATCALLS & CARDINALS

WHAT A MORNING!  CARDINALS ARE CAT-CALLING THEIR BIRDY PALS AT 6AM WHEN I BRAVE THE ELEMENTS TO GET THE NEWSPAPER OUTSIDE...AND IT'S LIGHT ALREADY!  Spring MUST be just around the corner.  Puddles prevail on my sidewalk and the street and woods where Buddy and I take our daily jaunt in the neighborhood.  It's amazing how much better i feel when the weather warms and NO SNOW IS FALLING TODAY!

duck adrift, aimless, no enthusiasm

Have you seen the yellow duck? Just like Moby Dick's search for the white whale, I'm a yellow duck adrift on endless waters...This may not be April, "the cruelest month", as T.S.Eliot coined the phrase, but the endless snowfall has me despondent, in search of a passion and enthusiasm I normally feel!

Just read about Donovan Hohn's MOBY-DUCK in the NYTIMES book review section. A load of bath toys had plummeted off a storm-wracked ship in the Pacific in 1992. Beachcombers found toys on the coastlines for years to come. That instance prompted Hohn to give up his teaching job and investigate where the ducks drifted and why. Searching the watery wilderness refreshed his capacity for awe.

I need to go into the snowy woods with my Beagle Buddy to search for new inspiration. No longer do I want to be a duck adrift; I want a purpose, a goal that will inspire me! What's it gonna be?