Forty-five pages of revisions. Thirty-one residency-written pages that have been through two drafts so far. Four novels read. Many, many lovely conversations. Group trip to a bar. Poetry, poetry - heard and read. One tarot reading. An enlarged writing community.
This is my list of residency accomplishments. Tonight is the big show in the theater where we all read. Gainesville gals will show up and then we'll kayak in Mosquito Lagoon tomorrow, and on Sunday I'll be home to my bathtub and television. Oh yeah, and to my friends, mother, and all the rest of my life. And to vote.
Sometimes you know, right in the very moment that it's happening, how happy you are.




