Until then...

Creede, Colorado. Photo by LadyLovesHerPen

So much has changed, as you can imaging, in the 6 years since I last posted.  Today, I'm a much more advanced playwright (though still learning and emerging in so many spaces). I'm President of the Young Adults for my denomination.   I also travel and write a lot, hence the reason I'm starting to blog a little all over again.

I'll be migrating these all over to my main website, but I had a few things to show before I get to that point.

First, things, first, I'm in Creede, Colorado today for the National Winter Playwrights Retreat.  In 2017 I came and workshopped my show.  I was also dating a priest that year, but that's another story for another day. The point is the play I wrote and had read was refined there and produced this past August. It's also being submitted to some other places so - with fingers crossed - it'll have another shot. This year, I found it so fitting to come back and refine the play, That What Buried.

The trip up this time around has been full of until then moments. I was originally to come the week of New Years, but my uncle passed away suddenly. Fortunately, I was able to reschedule. Yesterday, I was to come up to Alamosa and stay in a hotel there, but there was freezing fog - which I didn't even know existed until yesterday.   I gratefully have an awesome friend in Denver who let me crash at her home.   After arriving to the airport even this morning, there was a three hour delay so the Creede arrival was more afternoon than morning.

My awesome friend Lisa Young and I at Denver Biscuit Company.

Point is, after much delay, I'm here in the mountains.

We made it. Sometimes that's all that matters.

Today was the biggest greeting the biggest anticipation of what was to come.   More importantly, it will be the best time for me to just slow all the way down and get back to me for a change.

My goal is to simply write and compare notes about the production process. I also want to finish a couple small things, including revise my The Blue Series piece that goes up in March (it's so close!).

Right now, all I care about it staying hydrated and starting my list of what will be accomplished.  Sermoning must take place between the playwriting process so I'll get a first hand look at how the formula will work this time.

Also, the rituals.  Gotta get back to the rituals associated with all of it.

Check out the pic of what freezing fog does to trees as well as the plane that was up against the odds.