Starting new projects.
Last Friday I finally told Carlos I would only be doing the supervised visits until February, so that was two weeks notice. Perfectly reasonable, I think. He said okay, but the ride from dropping his daughter off with her mom to the coffee shop where I have my writers' group meeting was in complete silence. He's even been giving Ian the silent treatment. Oh, well. It's a relief knowing I'm almost done with this whole mess.
Sunday, February 14th I'll be starting my own writing group. Sylvanopolis is mainly Sci-Fi and Fantasy, but there is one poetry group and a Horror, Supernatural, and Paranormal Romance group. Mine is going to be Fiction/Non-Fiction every second and fourth Sunday from 2pm to 4pm. Saturday, February 13th I'll be pitching it and explaining it at Waffle Square to everyone in Sylvanopolis. Hopefully they'll take some time off during Valentine's Day to come to whatever coffee shop I'll have it at.
I've also e-mailed someone at the Sacramento Children's Home asking about volunteer or donation opportunities. I don't think I'll ultimately volunteer because of time constraints, but I knit a lot and I'm running out of people to give scarves to, I want to learn how to make hats, and I want to learn how to crochet. Winter clothes weren't on the list of "Immediate Needs," but I don't have new school supplies, children's clothes, toasters, shower curtain rods, etc. to give.
I told the girls at Sylvanopolis I'd give them some scarves to sell to raise money for the group. Then I realized we don't need a communal printer, we don't need to rent a room in a building and have it set aside for us, we don't need to make the anthology spectacular, and we don't even technically need an anthology. There's no reason for it, aside from the thrill of seeing one's name in print. On the other hand, I'd say that abused and/or homeless children do need donations.
I was considering giving some of the scarves to my parents' neighbor Marie. A while ago she had a brain tumor and was told she'd be lucky to see her kids graduate high school. They graduated six years ago, she went into remission, lost some of her speech (sometimes she needs to spell words out because she can't say them), and now she has seizures. She knits scarves and sells them for around $80-100 to fundraise for neurological diseases. She has a ton of scarves, though, so I guess she doesn't need my help. So that's when I decided to do the children's home thing.
Sunday, February 14th I'll be starting my own writing group. Sylvanopolis is mainly Sci-Fi and Fantasy, but there is one poetry group and a Horror, Supernatural, and Paranormal Romance group. Mine is going to be Fiction/Non-Fiction every second and fourth Sunday from 2pm to 4pm. Saturday, February 13th I'll be pitching it and explaining it at Waffle Square to everyone in Sylvanopolis. Hopefully they'll take some time off during Valentine's Day to come to whatever coffee shop I'll have it at.
I've also e-mailed someone at the Sacramento Children's Home asking about volunteer or donation opportunities. I don't think I'll ultimately volunteer because of time constraints, but I knit a lot and I'm running out of people to give scarves to, I want to learn how to make hats, and I want to learn how to crochet. Winter clothes weren't on the list of "Immediate Needs," but I don't have new school supplies, children's clothes, toasters, shower curtain rods, etc. to give.
I told the girls at Sylvanopolis I'd give them some scarves to sell to raise money for the group. Then I realized we don't need a communal printer, we don't need to rent a room in a building and have it set aside for us, we don't need to make the anthology spectacular, and we don't even technically need an anthology. There's no reason for it, aside from the thrill of seeing one's name in print. On the other hand, I'd say that abused and/or homeless children do need donations.
I was considering giving some of the scarves to my parents' neighbor Marie. A while ago she had a brain tumor and was told she'd be lucky to see her kids graduate high school. They graduated six years ago, she went into remission, lost some of her speech (sometimes she needs to spell words out because she can't say them), and now she has seizures. She knits scarves and sells them for around $80-100 to fundraise for neurological diseases. She has a ton of scarves, though, so I guess she doesn't need my help. So that's when I decided to do the children's home thing.