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See our map page for directions to our 2012 meeting location. Next meeting: Saturday, February 4, 2012 The latest issue of our chapter newsletter is now online. President's Message From the February 2012 newsletter, by Kathleen Dougherty Sometimes the shifting of the wind against an old house or the sigh of a sleeping child can be almost unbearably poignant." While in the Midwest at Christmas, I lay awake at night, listening to these night noises, and to the soft murmuring of my mother as she and my father spoke softly together."I knew by then that she had only days or hours to live."She was moving on to the next big adventure--leaving us with"with the sound of ordinary things and the memories of an extraordinary woman." I'm home now and writing slowly, in fits and starts, pausing often to stare out the window and remember."But as I slowly pull myself back into my life, I'm getting back into the rhythm of writing, because that is my life." Writing is my adventure, it is the sound of the wind creaking the siding of an old house." It is the sound of a child's sigh in the night"and it is the feeling of a daughter listening to her mother's last words. Writing is how I live. My mother would have expected me to get back to my stories.
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