7 Excuses for not blogging: I’m too busy writing!!

Post date: Jun 19, 2018 3:04:12 AM

The last two months have been pretty intense for a retired teacher. I realized that I had not been posting to Geeky grandma as much as I normally post. So, what have I been doing?

1. We collected things and created signage to put up and take down displays at the Cedar Falls Library (May: Cedar Falls Authors Festival wrap up with Rosemary Beach and June: Ruth Suckow Annual Meeting, with Barbara Lounsberry).

2. I worked on writing my second draft of a book chapter for a book about the Midwestern mind. It’s starting to come together! I still need to fuss with some of the footnotes, work on transitions, and do some polishing.

3. I have been working on The Gift, my first novel (100 pages and 8 chapters that are more or less developed, with notes and some work on the remaining chapters).

4. I put together two massive notebooks that archive what we did in the Cedar Falls Authors Festival over the past year and a half. Thanks to Rosemary Beach, who has tirelessly collected every mention of the festival in the newspaper and elsewhere.

5. We held our 2018 Annual Suckow meeting at the Cedar Falls Public Library on Saturday, June 9th. Our final program for the Cedar Falls Authors Festival took place at 1:00 that afternoon, with a wonderful presentation by Ken Lyftogt about Ruth Suckow and Going to the Woods (her views on nature).

6. We wrapped up the year with the final Legislative Forum at the Waterloo Public Library.

7. I finished up work on my presentation about “Going Google” for the Cedar Falls Christian Writers Workshop. Then, I attended the workshop last week, which was wonderful!

Wow! It's been a busy time, but a productive one.

Want to watch Ken's talk on YouTube?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj8XiAWe0Vc&t=638s

Last updated June 18, 2018