JULY 6, 2021

 

MEMBERS PRESENT:

Hardershan Valia, Sharon Buckman, Katherine Flotz,  Diane Stratton, Beverly Stanislawski, Sharon Palmeri, Shirley Hinman

OLD BUSINESS:

A vote of approval for the June 24, 2021 minutes was given by BEVERLY STANISLAWSKI and SHARON BUCKMAN

 

 

 

LITERARY NEWS:

KATHERINE FLOTZ explained how her family had signed her up for Story Worth, a program that sends her a different topic each week for 52 weeks.  Kathy writes something for each topic which is then printed and published at the end of the 52 weeks and given back to her family.  Great idea.

READINGS:

KATHERINE FLOTZ read “WHAT GIVES YOU PEACE OF MIND,” her May 25^th entry for Story Worth.  Kathy’s entry was summarized by loving her family, friends and treating everyone with compassion.

SHIRLEY HINMAN read her three-stanza poem entitled, “ANTS.”  The very cute poem told of how ants are very strong creatures, carrying 50 times their own weight and usually function like human communities.

SHARON BUCKMAN read two pages from her future novel, RUNNING ON A TREADMILL.  This part of the story tells of Sandy, her mother, and landlady trying to convince Eric that he has the wrong town when he finds her mother’s car but is told it belongs to the landlady instead.

BEVERLY STANISLAWSKI read her five-stanza poem entitled, “HOMECOMING.”  This very touching poem told of her return to her neighborhood in Chicago and finding it nothing like the place she had remembered as a child.

HARDERSHAN VALIA read his six stanza poem entitled, “GLOVE on a FENCE.” The very clever poem told of a jogger picking up a snow covered left glove and placing it on a nearby wire fence.  The following week she returned to the same spot and placed her right handed glove next to it.  The next week when she returned she found a note and another right-handed glove saying he wouldn’t need it anymore, he was being deployed to a desert.

SHARON PALMERI read her four-page memoir entitled, “PROFESSOR ARM PATCHES.”  This very cute story began when Sharon enrolled in a college nursing program at IUN.  Since she liked to write, she brought a few poems to an English professor to look at.  She was shocked when he described them as “archaic.”  She responded “Then you will help me improve!...I will take all of your classes!”  And she did.  She changed her major to Education/English/Journalism and has corresponded with the retired professor for many years. She uses some of his techniques in her own classes.

The meeting was adjourned at 6:30 P.M.

Respectfully submitted:  SHARON BUCKMAN