MY BOGGY BLOG: find your way through the murk

Writers Give

... the best gifts! Last night was my women's writing group, which in the three years we've been meeting has grown from three of us to eight. We have mainly met on Tuesday mornings twice a month at various cafes, but since one of our members got a job with different hours, we now have one day meeting a month and one evening meeting. And this group is always great about celebrating birthdays and Christmas together. A pile of gifts ends up at the birthday person's feet, and we watch her open.

Since we're all writers, we of course understand the little thoughtful and useful and fun gifts that writers like to get. Cool new pens are oohed over, fancy journals that you might never buy for yourself because "I can always just use this spiral notebook" are very welcome and elicit sighs of contentment. And then the books that are chosen with your interests in mind, the books that the giver has enjoyed themselves-- in other words, very good reading material.

We are so easily pleased, we writers, but those who don't write tend not to understand us. So even as the birthday girl last night was opening her gifts, she said, "oh, I should probably say you all shouldn't do all this and spoil me, but the gifts are so great!" It's so nice to have a group where you feel really understood!