Arrival of Meeting In The Ladies Room

It looks like just a regular box.  I stood in line at the Post Office this morning with such anticipation.  This box arrived at my doorstep yesterday but I wasn’t home so I had to endure another day of waiting.  I wondered, as I waited in line, if the woman working behind the counter could feel my anticipation.  I just about grabbed the box right out of her hands.  I smiled and said “thanks”.  Little did she know what was inside the box that wasn’t just a regular box but held something so near and dear it was almost impossible to contain my excitement.

I had hoped it would arrived before Christmas but no such luck so it will be a Welcome to 2010 gift to a few members of my family and extended family. When you are asked to be involved in a project that will be published, with photographs of you and your words you are thrilled.  You get your contribution done as I laid out in The Paper Dress blog post and then you wait to see the final project completed.

There are 68 women, including me, represented in Meeting In The Ladies Room.  Of those 67, I have personally met Jann Arden, Michelle Blau and Dusti Ohland.  That leaves 64 other women I have never met face to face but share a book with.  Some of these women I chat with regularly so it feels like I know them.  They know bits and pieces of what’s going on in my life and we offer support to each other when needed.

To know you are in a book and to contribute to that book is one thing.  To see yourself in a book that you are holding in your own hands is rather surreal and overwhelming.   The photo to the left is one of my pages.  I will leave the other to be discovered by the reader when they purchase their own copy of Meeting In The Ladies Room.  This book will make you ask yourself “What do I see when I look in the mirror?”  Try to answer that for yourself as honestly as you can.  It not as easy as it sounds.

To Linda and Karen thank you for asking me to contribute to your book.  I adore you both a ton!

As this book was created along with Pamela Detlor I thank you as well.  You should be very proud!!  One day we’ll meet and I’ll pass you that coke slurpee I’ve been promising you!  You are brilliant!