September 2024

 

Just Dallin with a donkey lol

Free pumpkins!

At the temple with the Sterrs

Best weekend of the year!

ANWA Writers Conference in Mesa, AZ was amazing. My fifth year attending!

Loved seeing my dear writer friends. Celebrating wins, plotting our ideas, commiserating the hard stuff. Laughing at dorky writerly things.

Then there was everything else. Workshopping a new project. Karaoke parodies. Dinners and lunches catching up. Classes about everything I need to know for all the aspects of writing. Inspiring keynote. Bookstore of attendees. Meeting anthology writers (I helped edit this year’s anthology).

I am the ANWA Communications Chair (newsletter and social media),so I get to see all the behind-the-scenes work the volunteers do all year to prepare. They are such giving people.

At conference, I also get to run around and be a journalist (my fave!) taking pics and videos and observing all the loveliness.

Because of ANWA, I’ve made so many connections, and ANWA has become family.

Being a writer can be lonely, but writer friends make it all better.

My writing has gotten stronger, I’ve tried new things, written so much more (yay for critique groups!) and I’m thriving because of this great organization.

Thank you, ANWA!

Quoteable Sniders

Teenagers with phones. Making "plans" with their text group friends.

Their plans change 100 times! But they only infom you, the parent, during these moments:

Text #1, to let you know you need to give them a ride to whatever thing they're concocting.

Text #100, when the time and place has completely changed, and the need to go NOW, while you're in the middle of whatever you're doing.

Repeated every weekend. LOL