tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18688033.post115139085095056607..comments2023-10-28T05:33:15.060-05:00Comments on The Writing Playground: Home Again!!Marilyn Puetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16073134550080890157noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18688033.post-1151455513963409922006-06-27T19:45:00.000-05:002006-06-27T19:45:00.000-05:00Happy birthday Darling Geek and Amazing Child!! Ho...Happy birthday Darling Geek and Amazing Child!! How cool to have your birthdays on the same day (except that Darling Geek gets ignored, doesn't he?).<BR/><BR/>I think the one episode that stands out in my mind is going to my first RWA meeting. Remember, I grew up as a twin, so I always had my sister to go with me into new classes, large gatherings, or anything. This was my first time to go into a group of people as just me.<BR/><BR/>I remember being afraid to say a word and the few I did say I wish I'd kept inside. Everyone else seemed so brilliant and I felt terribly insignificant. I'm sure many of our members wish I still felt that way, because then I wouldn't talk so much!!! :) Now they can't get me to shut up. <BR/><BR/>But I found a home, people who understand me, my best friends, and an identity for myself. Amazing!<BR/><BR/>AngelAngelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17010424240956906870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18688033.post-1151441595584477012006-06-27T15:53:00.000-05:002006-06-27T15:53:00.000-05:00It's good to have you back, PC! I'm glad you had ...It's good to have you back, PC! I'm glad you had a grand time examining livestock. I think that kind of stuff, beyond the smell, of course, is cool. I've been to rodeos and country fairs myself. And I've even been a couple of times to an outdoor cheerleading competition at the Alabama State Fair with elephants, strange septic smells, and all kinds of livestock grazing nearby. Believe me, that's a weird combination!<BR/><BR/>Feeling out of place... that's moving all over the world as a young kid, leaving friends and not knowing if you'll ever make new ones. Being a commander's wife and trying to make other wives realize that you are just like them in that they miss their husbands and want them home, are trying to keep their family intact, are miserable because they have no one to lean on, and desperate to know someone cares. <BR/><BR/>There have been so many times, but every time I've had to step out of my comfort zone, I may or may not have liked the process, but I was forever changed by the experience. <BR/><BR/>Happy Birthday to your loved ones!<BR/>KathyKatherine Bonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14701961380138616355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18688033.post-1151435160013964932006-06-27T14:06:00.000-05:002006-06-27T14:06:00.000-05:00I don't know, I think perhaps I live outside my co...I don't know, I think perhaps I live outside my comfort zone :-) which provides quite a bit of fodder for the imagination. <BR/><BR/>Happy Birthday to Amazing Child and Your Darling Geek!! <BR/><BR/>And Welcome Home. We're really glad to have you back. I've missed my partner in crime ;-D<BR/><BR/>InstigatorKira Sinclair - AKA Instigatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14274056066229852126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18688033.post-1151412081633318092006-06-27T07:41:00.000-05:002006-06-27T07:41:00.000-05:00Welcome home! We missed you! But it sounds like ...Welcome home! We missed you! But it sounds like you had a wonderful trip, ag fair and all.<BR/><BR/>I know y'all aren't going to believe this, but at one point in my life I was so shy that being with people was outside my comfort zone. Make me talk to them and I'd nearly break out in hives. My husband's office parties were like a torture chamber.<BR/><BR/>I'm still what I would call in introvert, but I'm not painfully so. I made a conscious decision to change. I learned a few things I could talk with people about. I found out it was actually FUN to dance in public.<BR/><BR/>And what did I come away with? Well... all my friends at the Playground and at Heart of Dixie and in RWA as a whole. My husband and I lived overseas for 4 years and I have enough memories from that to fill volumes. And by overcoming my fear of talking to people I've met some of the most amazing folks.<BR/><BR/>Then of course there's motherhood. That was WAY outside my comfort zone, but look what I got out of it: two great boys, a terrific daughter-in-law and the most beautiful granddaughter in the world.<BR/><BR/>PMPlayground Monitorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07444337591281145863noreply@blogger.com