I'm late getting to this today, but want to report on some of the "wisdom" and ideas that came from our April 1 workshop here.

One member writing her memoir for her family brought us words about childhood dress "codes." Another told of the preliminary measures her grandmother took before beheading the T-day turkey. We heard about a miracle healing, a method of arfully "disciplining" children when they quarreled. We heard how a woman discovered her talent for drawing and sculpture; how, when traveling, a mother said she always knew "where we had been, not where we were going" because she was constantly looking into the back seat of the station wagon to settle the three children and their quarrels.  The list goes on and on.

Comments about what was read won publishins suggestions and laughing approval, and inspired appreciation for the reminders of their own lives, such as:  "I would not have remembered the funny things that happened in our travels if I had not heard the writing of X today."

This is one of the greatest values of workshops.  We stimulate and inspire each other.  Until next week, Willma