From the President: January 2007
I went away for two months including Spain and Italy. Though I returned early October, I blinked through my busyness and somehow it's time to wish you a Happy New Year.
I felt a cool sense of Sierra Writers home while I was doing the family thing in the Bay Area over the holidays. I was driving and listening to National Public Radio—national radio—200 miles away from Nevada City. Speaking to me over the air waves was Molly Fisk, a Sierra Writers member. She was saying soothing things about the season, but I felt an extra connection to her radio essay.
Same day, same radio station, I heard a piece about Grass Valley by Carolyn Crane—a Cornish Christmas kind of thing. Carolyn Crane is also a member of our modest little Sierra Writers group. Again I felt an extra connection to the kind of things that makes our area ripe for such national bits of expression.
Thanks Molly. Thanks Carolyn. Oh, but it's not really about national exposure or connecting to tidbits of fame. It's about experiencing fellow Sierra Writers folk expressing themselves in whatever ways I bump into it.
Don't hesitate to boast ahead of time that your writing will be appearing in whatever venue, whenever. We can post it on our Web site.
Happy 2007.
Charles Jaffee