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It’s the famous inn at the Bread Loaf campus of Middlebury College. For those of you who have heard of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, you’ll know why I am psyched to spend the next week and a half there. 10 days in Vermont. 10 days of workshops, lectures, readings, writing…I have to stop. I’m getting the vapors.

It is miles from my current life of work and family. And dogs. One of whom is having diarrhea on and off.

Here was my day yesterday:

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No, I did not alter the temperature gauge. I don’t even know how to do that. And what was I doing all day while my husband was “working”? I was helping my son move into his dorm room.  87 trips, total.

And when we were finally done, this happened:

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Yup.

So you’ll understand that if I wasn’t half insane with joy and excitement about the conference before, I sure am now!

That’s life, isn’t it?  Just when you’re all like ARE YOU KIDDING ME? WHAT THE HELL??, someone comes along and offers you a bit of manna.

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