As I continue to face changes in my personal life, I and a group of people I’ve been proud to call my friends recently said goodbye to an era in our lives. Although it is not directly related to my move across the state, it’s hard not to think of what happened last Saturday as part of those changes.
For the past three years, shortly after I moved to south central Iowa, I’ve been a member of a writer’s group in Des Moines known as the Iowa Writers’ Corner (IWC). It had been a longstanding writing group (I am embarrassed to admit I do not know exactly how long it had been in operation, except it has been several years) of fiction writers, essayists, and poets, mainly from the greater Des Moines area. I was currently the member who had to drive the farthest to make it to our monthly meetings, but writers’ groups are few and far between in south central Iowa, so Des Moines was my best bet.
I’ve previously talked about the importance of writing groups in my life and my continuing development…
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