Celebrating a friend's success

I’m not totally certain what year I met Nancy Robertson. We met through Prince Rupert Writer's Group, back in the early 80's.

We all met every second Wednesday, discussed and critiqued each other's work, made suggestions, and shared about submission opportunities. Nancy's work found it’s way into several anthologies and literary journals.

Nancy is also a photographer. Often her photos are closeups of water, oil puddles, rust, focused on patterns and texture.

On top of that, she's a quiltmaker. I am not certain of her first efforts, but the ones that are presently hanging in the Museum of Northern BC's Ruth Harvey Gallery are as abstract as her photos and the small paintings that hang beside the quilts.

I am so proud of my friend! She's led an interesting life, full of travel and deep observation, both visual and the observation of human nature that results in a thoughtful, gifted writer.

Congrats, Nancy.

If you're in town, be sure to catch this show of quilts, small paintings and photos.

In other news, about 10 minutes of a musical I’m working on, will have a staged reading, along with several others at Udderfest on Saturday, August 16th, in the afternoon.Miranda Baker has been leading us in a Playwrights Circle. It's been a valuable experience. I’m learning formatting for musicals and have been playing a bit of “carch up” by watching a bunch of modern musicals on YouTube on my own. I hasten to say that the full production might be ready In about 4 or more years. Never tried anything this ambitious before. But. There's always a first time…

And that's all she wrote.