I haven’t been able to sleep for days. I’d love to tell you it’s because I am super-spiritual, or because I’ve been scrubbing toilets to leave my family with a clean house.
Neither are true.
I think it’s been the excitement. So, how about a quick recap of my day?
4:30am Alarm goes off.
5:30am Leave house fifteen minutes late and head to my girlfriends house.
6:15am Four of us pile into a Volvo XC90. We’re off!
9:00am Stop at Starbucks for a quick pick-me-up. I highly recommend black tea vanilla lattes.
10:00am Prayer time at the beach in Santa Cruz. Meet a very interesting commercial fisherman.
11:00am We’re Here! Register at Mt. Hermon. Boy-howdy, did I bring the wrong shoes. Cute was dumb. Comfortable is needed.
12:00pm Have lunch. Soup and Salad. Try to figure out how I can smuggle a dozen of these oatmeal raisin cookies to my room.
3:00pm Take class on creative non-fiction writing. (Wish I had the guts to tell the instructor that encouraging us to read Oprah’s book selection, Eat-Love-Pray, isn’t earning her any brownie points with me.)
6:00pm Dinner time! Met with publisher James Watkins, what a nice man.
7:30pm Worship. Guest speaker Bill Butterworth shared from 1Samuel and the story of David and Goliath. Encouraged us as writers to be courageous. What a funny guy.
10:23pm Blogging in the cafe. Surrounded by writers and sleeping with my eyes open.
Beth, Me, Lori and Denise, wondering what God has for us this week. And laughing. Why are we doing this again?
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