Full Moon Writing

Photo by Tom Tackett for "From the Desk - Writings under a Full Moon" (left to right) Ali, Emily, Sue, Denise



I have belonged to a small writing group of four women for about three years or so. In the past year we have been working on pieces of writing about the full moons, which have a different name each month. The challenge was to come to the group with a piece of writing about the moon.

During this year we all faced trying times and sometimes did not get our assignments done in the exact month they were due - but eventually we all finished our work and will be publishing this book of writing in the next few weeks.

We'll introduce the book to the public at the gallery opening reception of Ali's retrospective of a lifetime of her art work - which includes these written pieces in the "moon" book. The reception takes place at the Box Factory for the Arts in St. Joseph, Michigan on July 30.

It has been so much fun working on this project with these creative women and I'm so looking forward to seeing it in the printed form. (Ali is creating special artwork for both the cover and the title pages for each of our sections in the book.)

We've recently added a fifth member to the group, Judy, and we've decided to begin another year-long group project - this one with the theme of "birds." We can write anything we want - but a bird has to appear in it somewhere. Sounds like a challenge (not so much for Sue, who is an avid birder) and we begin next month when we meet at Ali's for our July session. (And no, I won't be tweeting!)

I'll write more about this as we progress. Bye, bye birdie!