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June 9th, 2007 / Categories: Alaska, Moose Nuggets / 7 Comments »

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Attended a reading by Amy Tan tonight as part of the conference. She is fantastically funny. If you EVER have a chance to see her, do not hesitate. You will be glad that you did – really. In the meantime, go to her website and check out her Myths and Legends page. lol

Lessa and I have been going, going, going all day – workshops and speakers and then tonight’s reading. We are looking forward to sleeping in for a bit in the morning. The group from Kenai is meeting at 10 with someone who wants to collaborate with us on a project. Hmmmmmm

There will be more workshop sessions tomorrow – another fabulous lunch – and then readings tomorrow night by different faculty presenters from the conference. We have a choice of three venues to attend.

Before I leave you tonight, I want to share a pic I took just for Faith of Dyslexic Chicken fame.  She has a Rubber Chicken Project going – sort of like the PurpleMoose on parade – where she takes her rubber chicken places and takes pictures to prove s/he’s been there.

My rubber chicken is much smaller, but having ever so much fun in Faiths honor – shown here at the Kachemak Bay Writers Conference, Homer, Alaska June 9, 2007 – being chewed upon by some really green teeth . . .

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Homer Serenade

June 9th, 2007 / Categories: Alaska, inspiration, Moose Nuggets / Comments Closed

So, Lessa and I are back in our room for the night – she is tapping away on the KLL laptop and I am tapping away on my own. Life is sweet. But where, oh Moosie, ol’ Moosie ol’ pal, does the serenade of your title come in, we ask?

Well, the room was a bit stifling (I KNOW! Alaska and stifling – not always terms you see mixed, right?) so I opened the window (not without some doing, I must say) and blocked it with the ever so kindly left stick! And, now we are being treated to someone somewhere who is singing loudly . . . not unpleasantly, but a bit funny to hear.

We have been duly registered at the Kachemak Bay Writers Conference, have visited the bookstore, made purchases, have sat in the restaurant where Lessa partook of a “blue moon” (sing it with me now . . . blue moon . . .) margarita while I drank a mocha, and we have had a delightful dinner of rice, salmon and asparagus, and then we enjoyed the first night keynote speech of Amy Tan.

Oh, friends . . . if you EVER get a chance to hear her speak, please do so. She is delightful and funny, and quirky, and very down to earth.

And, in case you did not know it – she is the writer of the children’s tv series Sagwa, which kitty was named after her own much loved (and dearly missed) kitty.

We are looking forward to the next few days of learning under Ms. Tan and other gifted writers. I’ll pop in from time to time – and I’m sure Lessa will have pictures soon. We’ll be back in Kenai Tuesday late afternoon.

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