Thanks to the interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything. - Charles Kuralt
Hoda and KLG have ‘wines day Wednesday’ and although
there will be some wine a little later in my Wednesday, this one is and has
been walkabout Wednesday for me for the past few weeks. In my walkabout, I find I'm seeing things I ordinarily miss along my way.
I’ve been parking on Southside by the post office at
some of the free curbside spaces and walking the 3-1/2 blocks to the Lister
Hill Library for their 2-hour 10-week WriteNow sessions. Lister Hill has no parking lot; the nearest
lots are 2 and 3 blocks away and cost $4; the closest meter I found was 2
blocks away and I’d have to dash back before the 2 hours is up or be ticketed.
Free parking is better, but as 18th Street is
one steep hill (feels like 45 degree angle), I don’t walk mindwalking downhill
to the sessions, but all the way back up that same hill, in this summer heat,
is out of the question. I’ve opted for
the local transit trolley which is only a quarter for under 62 and 10 cents for
seniors (yay, one more perk of being 65).
I signed up for WriteNow in late May, and I have been
merrily walking to every session, and arriving by and usually before noon every
Wednesday since, hence walkabout Wednesday.
Most of the sessions are on the 4th floor in the Edge of
Chaos. I love that name and the room, which
is a huge sprawling space with two walls of soaring almost floor to ceiling
windows and murals on all exposed wall space and columns.
With the exception of me and one other participant, the
group is comprised of academics from the sciences here at UAB working on various
theses, article reviews, and dissertations.
Dr. Jennifer Greer, seen here behind a column helping a
student, is available for quick critiques, direction, opinion, help with organizing
tools and more. Once each month, she
conducts a luncheon lecture with food catered by Newks (pretty good
sandwiches). She hands out some rather
handy tools to help organize our writing, many of which I’ve revised to suit my
non-academic writing projects. One in
particular, has helped me immensely to set deadlines for essays that are done
on spec and hence have no ‘real’ deadline other than mine
I’m confident, I’ll have most of my essays submitted to
various publications by the end of the sessions and hope more than a few of
them finds a home.
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