Today Jama Rattigan interviews me--and Echo--on her blog:

http://jamarattigan.com/2014/03/07/friday-feast-chatting-with-barbara-etlin-about-antique-piano-other-sour-notes/

I'm self-publishing a print book, ANTIQUE PIANO & OTHER SOUR NOTES! For details, see my blog: http://owlsquill.blogspot.ca/2013/11/happy-publication-news.html

The editor of Danse Macabre said that

the fortieth issue,
the current one whichfeatures three of my poems,

is the
 best read, most visited issue
ever!

Thanks for clicking on that link!

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Woohoo!!!

While looking at links about the Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop, I found that a woman attendee had written a blog post about an incident that occured there. She didn't know who the kind man was.

http://joanie19.wordpress.com/2010/04/21/commandeering-the-head/

Mystery solved!

It was the

Famous (1)
Award-winning Humour Writer (2) 
and
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Woohoo! Check it out!

In Googling my name, I found that
a site about an Inuit artist uses my article on James Houston as a reference in its bibliography!

Yes, Mom.

Even if my name wasn't on that enRoute cover.  :-)

http://www.katilvik.com/content/bio/view.php?bid=1263&criteria=community&q=Lake


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... stands for

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop

Guess who attended it this year? Both M and I!


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Today I am especially thankful for:

1. The invention of the flushing toilet.
2. Plumbers who, when they show up, know what they are doing.
3. Tree cutters who, when they show up, know what they are doing.
4. Computer Guru, ditto.
5. Amazing good news for one of my LJ friends. CONGRATS, KAREN MAHONEY,  
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It's alliterative, so I say I can. :-)

Thanks, Cindy, cynthialord , for the copy of BECOMING BILLIE HOLIDAY by Carole Boston Weatherford and signed by the artist, Floyd Cooper, which I won in your contest! I'm really looking forward to reading it.

Also, the tulips are magnificent this year. 135 are in various phases of bloom at the moment!!! Woohoo!!!

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