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Mother Eartha and Me I joined the WBBS forums in October 2002 and quickly found a wonderful tapestry of talent interwoven with fellowship and good spirit. I've had the honor to win a few challenges in the WBBS forums which has rekindled my old desire to find a print home for my fiction writing. And it is my great pleasure that I have been invited to co-host the Writing from a Faith Perspective forum with David McKay. Who is Meema? My grandkids call me Meema. I am a problem-solving-maker-of-things. The term marches to a different drummer doesn’t come close. First, I designed and then built my own drum. In fact, it doesn't really even look like a drum, then I composed the music which I must play myself because no one can decipher my notations. I am an alien, I think. Dropped off on earth by mistake. Frankly, from my earliest recollections
I can’t think of a time or place when or where I truly fit
in. There's been no road ready for me to take, or someone to follow,
so I have had to learn how to hack a path out of the wilderness
for myself. My life long philosophy can be summed up with the old
Chinese proverb, “Those who say it cannot be done, should
not interrupt the one doing it.” At best I can claim I’ve
learned to live with it and made peace with being abnormal in a
normal world. When I say I make things this includes what I write. I consider my writing to be an integral part of my creating and I think of writing as crafting as much as using a compound mitre saw. (Some might suggest my writing is done with a dull knife.) I’ll refrain from putting out the whole resume and focus on the writing part of my bio. I have one published article (Photo District News, 1992, "Take This Job and Shoot it") and three published short stories (Oh, Georgia! Anthology, Vol. III,IV). I have been responsible for writing a column, “I was Just Thinking”, for local publications since 1990, my favorites of these rest in my website on Meema's Porch in Makinghome along with a collection of devotional essays titled, "Good Morning, Father", which has now been picked up by another local publication called The Buford Buzz. I also write, produce and perform puppet shows and stories for charities both children and adult. In May of 2002 I did the photography for "On The Cutting Edge" by Vivian Peritts, Krause Publishing. In the eighties I was the primary designer for the projects for a book producer (Family Workshop) and my name can be found in 2-point type in the credits of twenty-three How-To books published by Chilton, Putnam and Double-Day, all of which are out of print but continue to turn up like bad pennies on mark down tables in remote and sundry places. Most recently, I have a cookbook, “101 Low-Carb and Sugarfree Dessert Recipes” 1st books Library and is available on my website as well as Amazon.com and a dozen online sites.
If you have lasted to this sentence, you are either anticipating a punch line or you are a glutton for punishment. Sorry, no punch line but hoping you weren't too bored.
Booksigning event June 26, 04- Greenville, SC |
