During the last 18 months, I’ve been away from my Writing Group with Julie Treadwell and Shelley DeVries.  We talked from time to time, but it just wasn’t the same.  We’ve been planning a get-away for months.  Julie donated her family’s time at a Midway timeshare and we were happy to use it, getting away for a few days with our laptops, books, projects and stories.

We gave ourselves assignments to write, to read about writing, and to work on our projects.  It was so good.  Everyone needs friends like these!

Here’s a book I reading right now about writing alone and with friends.  It’s good.

Shelley brought her I SPY quilt up to work on.  Slowly and surely, she’ll get it finished!

We had to check out Saturday morning.  I went next door to Zermatt, where we’ve held so many fun Quilt Retreats over the years.  I needed to get more words out before going home, so I settled in by the fire in the cozy lobby and for several more hours, I wrote and wrote from a list of prompts I’ve been collecting.  It was heavenly.  And it felt a bit like Europe again.  I have lots of catching up to do.