Write With Me! Study Hall, Monday, September 27, 2015
Moving Day! Hi, All! So sorry about last week’s missing study hall link. My early morning Social Security meeting became a nearly all-day affair, in which I was prohibited from linking to the Internet. This week, I also don’t have wi-if, because we are packing up our Florida house and preparing for the final move to Charlotte. But this time I’m scheduling the post courtesy of free Barnes & Noble (I know, evil empire, but I live in no-other-bookstore land) on Sunday, and then I’ll be easily able to catch up with you via my cell phone tomorrow.
Not sure how much concentrated writing time I will get done this week, but after the packing, on Thursday I’ll be joining a workshop taught by Laura van den Berg (Finding Me, The Isle of Youth, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us) along with Connie May Fowler and Parneshia Jones for a long weekend. More about that later! So I will be writing, all week long.
So please check in and tell us what you’re up to. You could look at this, if you choose, as get-your-butt-in -the-chair-and-keep-moving-day. Let’s get it done–baxt (Good writing mojo, Romani style!)
Glenda Bailey-Mershon is the author of the novel Eve’s Garden (Twisted Road, 2014), the story of three generations of Romani women surviving in North Georgia, USA, during the 1960s. She is also the author of Weaver’s Knot: Poems (Finishing Line Press, forthcoming 2023) and other poetry titles, including sa-co-ni-ge/blue smoke: poems from the Southern Appalachians (Jane’s Stories) and Bird Talk: Poems (Wild Dove). A founder of the nonprofit, Jane’s Stories Press Foundarion, which presents the Clara Johnson Award for Women’s Literature, she edited four of their anthologies, the latest being Bridges and Borders, featuring immigrant women writers.
Could you be more specific about any sources for era-to-era economy? I’ve accumulated some info just googling for price comparisons and everyday life…Gahh, never thought all that coursework and experience in scientific
research would be used this way!
Hi, Bobbie, you can find year-by-year data on consumer prices here: http://www.bls.gov/cpi/. The Labor Department has similar comparisons on wages. And Wikipedia has a great list of historical timelines where you can find dates of inventions, major car upgrades, and things like that.
Going ahead w/o your weekly prompt–between your moving, dodging Joaquin, flooding, etc, I didn’t really expect one–anyhoo, my ache-y butt (my joints seem to overreact to barometric changes these days) is in the chair.
Going back today to edit and expand Randi’s earliest experience with ‘first-kiss’ Ken, then forward to their date. Randi will miss her parents’ curfew and be grounded, but then will reunion w/ BFF who’s been away all summer, and does Randi have a lot to tell her! And will she have some reactions!
Weaver's Knot by Glenda Bailey-Mershon 