The Workshop meets every week... regardless!

The weather tried very hard to keep us from meeting last night, to no avail. Our board of directors resolutely continued its weighty discussions, shrugging off the pounding of rain on the roof and ear-splitting thunder. We laughed at the danger and persisted even as the power went out, came back, and then went out for good.

More than twenty members showed up, despite the approaching storm. As the time for the regular meeting rolled around, we milled about in the dark and watched the wind and lightning, waiting for the lights to come back on. They didn't. We opted to delay our business meeting a week, but we held the regular meeting and listened to rejections, acceptances, submissions and announcements, including member Ginnie Siena Bivona's astounding four acceptances in one week!

Without light, we were unable to do read and critique, so it was a short meeting. But many of us reconvened at IHOP. This is another chapter in the Workshop's long and storied history of refusing to allow meetings to be canceled. This January, seven of us met in the middle of an ice storm. One year, four members met on Christmas Day. When we say every Wednesday, we're not kidding.