During our Warrenton Women Writers session last night, our assignment was to write about a decade of our life. This pertained to last month’s exercise of writing about a favorite house we lived in sometime in our life. I chose 1945 to 1955. Included in my piece was the Saturday night special for my brother and I. We were treated to a tomato pie and allowed to stay up to watch “Midwestern Hayride.”
Eyebrows shot up when I read my piece. Silly smiles on their faces asking “What’s a tomato pie?” They immediately told me of their instant imaginations of what it could be. Sliced tomatoes between two layers of pie crust? Hunks of tomatoes wrapped up in a pie crust? Ugh, was their first reaction.
We all laughed when I explained this earlier creation of pizza. It was a thin crust with crushed tomatoes on it rather than the tomato sauce used on pizza. I still remember Papa’s Tomato Pies on Chambers Street in the Italian section of Trenton called Chambersburg. Wonderful memories. Writing brings them all back again.
Thursday, April 20, 2006
Monday, April 10, 2006
A Writing Retreat in the Company of Women VI
This past weekend is the third time I’ve been fortunate enough to attend the Writing Retreat in the Company of Women, the sixth annual event organized by Doris Larson held at Punderson Manor State Park in Newbury, Ohio. Doris is the author of the “Great Inn Getaways” and “Bed and Breakfasts Getaways’ both from Cleveland Ohio area. You can see her creations at http://www.innwriter.com/home.html.
Only this year Doris couldn’t be there as she began recuperating from an emergency hip operation. Marsha McGregor did a wonderful job filling in for her with the help of Celeste Billhartz. Sixty-two women came for the weekend. An additional 18 came for the day. This writing retreat is like the appetizer to the IWWG’s main course of a week-long writing conference at Skidmore College in Saratoga New York in June. It’s a cozy, friendly setting for writing. Very inspiring.
We wrote under the guidance of creative and skilled teachers of their own genres, Pat Carr, Judi Beach, Marilyn Zembo Day, Judith Prest, Deanna Adams, Sandra Gurvis and Judy Huge, teaching Write to Heal. I started each day learning a body/mind stretch with Yoga instructor Pam Frost. She put us in good shape to begin our writing day. Writing in the company of other women writing is encouraging and inspirational. Of course we had a lot of fun, too.
Doris and Marsha and a few of the other participants belong to an Ohio writing group that can be found at:
http://www.albanypoets.com/womanwords/womanwords_writing.html.
Only this year Doris couldn’t be there as she began recuperating from an emergency hip operation. Marsha McGregor did a wonderful job filling in for her with the help of Celeste Billhartz. Sixty-two women came for the weekend. An additional 18 came for the day. This writing retreat is like the appetizer to the IWWG’s main course of a week-long writing conference at Skidmore College in Saratoga New York in June. It’s a cozy, friendly setting for writing. Very inspiring.
We wrote under the guidance of creative and skilled teachers of their own genres, Pat Carr, Judi Beach, Marilyn Zembo Day, Judith Prest, Deanna Adams, Sandra Gurvis and Judy Huge, teaching Write to Heal. I started each day learning a body/mind stretch with Yoga instructor Pam Frost. She put us in good shape to begin our writing day. Writing in the company of other women writing is encouraging and inspirational. Of course we had a lot of fun, too.
Doris and Marsha and a few of the other participants belong to an Ohio writing group that can be found at:
http://www.albanypoets.com/womanwords/womanwords_writing.html.
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