THE REVIEW

MERRY CHRISTMAS !


Bob and Margaret joined me Thursday night for our meeting. And I did have some Christmas baking to share.

Bob brought an article Susan had sent him, that she had written and which was published in The Telegram in St. John’s. It was a personal article called “Baby Wonder”, about her and Chris having Declan, their fifth child, after the failure of his vasectomy. The article had a full page spread and family pictures, and a warm and fuzzy ending. Nice to see that Susan is in print again.

Bob also brought an article by Pete McMartin in the Vancouver Sun about restaurants being too pretentious, and they are now losing patrons who are becoming more conscious of their spending since the economic meltdown of 2008.

He didn’t have any writing of his own to read, but Bob did say he replied to the letter he received from the Lt. Colonel.

Margaret read from the Peabody collection about Sir Donald Die being unable to rid the town of Wickerton of all its ghosts. But Rev. Peabody didn’t believe his manse had any ghosts and he went up to bed. Shortly after, Marie came in and saw the swaying rocking chair and smelled tobacco smoke, but nobody was there and the Reverend didn’t smoke. And Rev. Peasly was beginning to think the reason Barker gnawed on furniture was that he sensed the presence of ghosts.

I read the next chapter in “Fire”. Cam and Miles and Lucy are together at Cam’s. Miles had arrived to say there is a fire at #337, which is owned by Lucy’s Dad. Cam phones his Mom. Lucy phones her Dad, who is very angry and she becomes upset. Cam tries to comfort her even though he has his own suspicions. Miles just wants to go watch the fire. There are a number of phone calls from news media wanting information, and Miles is even more anxious to be out where the T.V. cameras might be. Cam gets his jacket and dons his favourite baseball cap as well, and the three of them go to watch the fire. Cam’s Mom is avoiding the media, but Miles rushes toward the T.V. crew.

We are taking a break over Christmas now. The next meeting will be Thursday, January 8th at 7:00 p.m. at my place. In the meantime, have a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, and be sure to spend some time with your Muse.

Best Wishes to All the Ram’s Head Writers and hope to see you in the New Year,

Lisa