Sunny and 80 and now in the 40s and snowy in Philadelphia. I really don’t talk about the weather this much, but it has been an extraordinary week!
But Spring is coming. Don’t forget to sign up to Celebrate the Spring Equinox with me on Saturday, March 21.
This past weekend my friend Susan and I dropped in on the last day of the AWP (Association of Writers and Writing Programs) conference in Baltimore. We had just enough time to walk up and down the aisles of the Bookfair seeing old friends and making new ones.
Here’s a picture of some of the sway I picked up.
I also got to meet one of my idols. Jill Christman, who was the editor for my piece “Pedestrian Acts“ in River Teeth’s Beautiful Things. If you have taken a flash essay class with me, you may remember Jill’s essay “The Sloth” in Brevity. She and I talked about how that essay came to her as she stood in the shower and looked up to see that sloth. She has a new memoir out called The Heart Folds Early. And I have a signed copy!
Susan Barr-Toman 