October 2005
Major remodeling projects started: 1
New assignments: 3
Manuscripts procrastinated: 1
Halloween parties attended: 2
Slick gadgets succumbed to: 1
Young wannabe writers mentored: 2
Number of above who said “Thanks”: 1
(a well-raised Mizzou student, naturally)
Bush administration members indicted: 1
Bush cronies scared away from Supreme Court: 1
Spam name of the month:
Tie between “Vindictiveness P. Sundries” and “Savoy J. Hamsters”

November 16th, 2005 07:29
So enjoyed your website! It’s been a year since Di’s business closed and I’m still in Missouri. Spent the last 11 months collecting oral histories along the Missouri River. Got a piece in Christian Science Monitor, that was big! Thought the flood gates would open, they didn’t. Still writing and producing my weekly Compost Pile for KOPN. There are almost 100 now so I’m starting to send them out. I’m 51 and I just want to write now. Curious about the mentoring you are doing. How does that work?
Meredith