This past weekend I attended The Oklahoma Writers Conference in Oklahoma City with some of my friends from Kansas City Writers Group. The last night’s banquet ends with awarding winners of the 36 category contest. Our group did well. We brought home around six awards. I won 1st Honorable Mention for my how-to article “How to Locate a Gas Well.” As we left the next morning I noticed the tree pictured at the beginning of the blog and wrote this…
Recently I traveled with three other ladies to Oklahoma City to the Oklahoma Writers Federation Conference. (OWFI.org.) Competition there is very fierce. I won second place for my How-to Article entitled, “How to Survive the Death of a Spouse” written from my experiences this past year. Does anyone have a suggestion where I might send this article? Anyone who is serious about writing would be wise to attend this conference held each year the first weekend in May. My…
Recently one of my blog readers wrote they wanted to see the entries I mentioned in the post “20/20 Hindsight.” This is the one I entered in the Poetry, Unrhymed, Long category. My great-grandparents settled in the Oklahoma Territory in 1889. It was too late to plant crops by the time they arrived. The next year the settlers endured a crop-killing drought and a prairie fire. The only thing left were turnips. The locals called 1890, “The Year of…