Katherine Flotz, George Miga, Beverly Stanislawski, Sharon
Dorelli, Sharon Jesik, Mike Musak, Jane Burns, Tom Spencer, Ron Trigg, Julie
Perkins, Liz Wilson, Michelle Vargas, Cathy Dziubla, Kelly Chase, Laurie Chase,
Sharon Palmeri, Sharon Buckman
OLD/NEW BUSINESS:
The meeting was opened at 6:30
P.M. Sharon Palmeri asked for a vote of
approval for the April 18th minutes.
Michelle Vargas gave the first approval which was seconded by Beverly
Stanislawski.
LITERARY
NEWS:
SHARON
PALMERI asked the members to bring, or send, any suggestions for
anything they would like to write about and have added to the blog, 750 words
or less. TOM SPENCER stated he had a few ideas.
Sharon also stated she has added several new people the Write On Hoosier
Facebook page. Sharon
also brought a book, “A Piece of My Mind,” edited by Bruce B. Dan and Roxanne
Young. The book included a collection of heart-felt and emotional essays from
JAMA (The Journal of the American Medical Assoc.) written by physicians. She
passed out a sample story from the book entitled “Baby Blues,” by Daniel
Waters,O.
KATHY FLOTZ stated
that her and her husband, George, will be speaking at the Buckley Homestead in
Lowell on May 5th and 6th.
CATHY
DZIUBLA stated she hasn’t been attending our meetings over the past
year due to their travels between Maryland and Kentucky visiting with their
children and their families.
READINGS:
KATHY FLOTZ began the
readings with a speech she had written at her daughter’s wedding in
1994. Kathy told of the special place
they had chosen for their wedding and how they sought the approval of their
families, since it would not be a traditional German wedding or a traditional
Jewish one. The wedding turned out well
and ended with Kathy relating her favorite “wedding story.”
SHARON JESIK brought a
short story entitled “Counting.” The
story began as a love story between Annie and Robert but began to change when
Robert slowly started to pull away. The
ending of the story revealed that Annie was probably much better off without
him.
MICHELLE
VARGAS read from Chapter One of her novel, Striving After Wind. The story told of a decomposed body being
found in a large swamp during the time of the civil war. The swamp is now a part of Gary and it is
based upon a true story.
CATHY
DZIUBLA told of a happening when she was visiting her newest
grandson in Kentucky. The story
entitled, “Five More, One Mores,” concerned
a trick she used to get her granddaughter, Zoe, to eat the rest of her cereal –
it worked!
TOM SPENCER brought
his eight stanza poem entitled, “Shadow
Walk”. The poem related to a two
mile walk through a Northwood’s trail in Wisconsin. It ended with “shadows of our past.”
LIZ WILSON continued
with her novel, The Grindylow. Kelsey,
after awakening from her fever and finding her spell book missing, attacked Val
by pushing him up against a wall with her hand on his throat. After having gotten back her book, and being
threatened herself, she decided she must leave.
JULIE
PERKINS read her fourteen line sonnet entitled, “Addiction: A Sonnet.” The
sonnet reveals the remembrances of an earlier life that did not include “stale
chores, whiny toddler” but then brings her back to the bliss of “it’s good: the
daily addiction of motherhood.”
BEVERLY
STANISLAWSKI read her four stanza poem entitled, “Gentle Snow.” The poem,
which had previously won second place in a Missouri contest, related to the
beauty of the first snow fall on a November day, “covering like a lacy
tablecloth.”
GEORGE MIGA continued
reading his novel, Medal of Dishonor. In
this part of his novel McCall seemed to change personalities, a much sterner
one, as he dealt with three men in an effort to get board approval for the
budget he needed to get started with his project.
KELLY CHASE continued
with her novel, The Ring. Kristine
listens to the Ring as her conversation with the Mistress continues. She is directed to the alter, where she
discovers that the sacrifice she has been instructed to kill is a baby goat.
JANE BURNS continued
with Chapter 6, “Within a Budding Grove”,
from her novel Atalanta. After having been taken to the maidens’ great hall,
Atalanta is introduced to the various women and given a place to stay with
another girl near her age, Laurel.
Laurel is less than happy with this arrangement.
SHARON
PALMERI read her short story based on a true experience, entitled,
“No Guarantee.” The very intense story
told of an experience Sharon had when working in the OB department during her
nurses training. The story ends with
Sharon deciding a nurse’s career was not for her.
MIKE MUSAK brought a
continuation of his screenplay, “Randy’s
New Job.” After assigning two
members to parts in the play Mike explained it begins with a newly hired, over
qualified employee, being assigned to a menial position; the position even included
sweeping the floors.
SHARON
DORELLI continued her short story entitled, “The Decision.” The story
dealt with a jury Sharon had participated in. All jurors were deliberating,
based on their own moral convictions, during a murder trial.
RON TRIGG continued
with his memoir Moments on an African Landscape with the section entitled, “A Gray Area.” This part of his experience in South Africa
from 1988 to 1992, related to the time he lived in Johannesburg when the whites
began moving out of the inner city neighborhoods and other racial groups moving
in.
The meeting was adjourned at 9:15 P.M.
Respectfully submitted:
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