Erika, are you still interested/willing to read some memoir for critique? I (I read a post of yours from February in the Virtual Critique Group)  You can send me a message through that group, or friend me - Carol Clouse.  My book is Clouse's Houses - Memoir of Architecture, Nature, and Human Spirit.   

Hi Erica! Thanks for connecting with me. I visited your blog and I really like the project your group has started. I look forward to reading through your blog. Also, I'm glad you liked the post about benefits of poetry. Thanks for letting me know.

I don't know what to say about removing the piece or not, I'm too new at all that. I've been told that putting my photos and microfictions on a blog means I'm guaranteeing that I can't do anything with them commercially elsewhere.....but frankly the people who informed me were not necessarily....well informed. Sorry to be so unhelpful.

As to Paris in June, definitely it would be good to meet up. 

Hi Erica,

I just read So Very Helen and enjoyed it. "...someone percolating into their 8th (or 9th) decade" was wonderful. I'm working on a character thinly based on the reality of my grandmother (I knew her mostly through her daughter-in-law's disparaging remarks). Trying to use her horrid knitted aghans, her Scots's stinginess, her webbed toes and incredible vigor (excited as a five-year-old at 95!) as a means to invent the Nana I would have wanted. A grandmother, as Helen, percolating into her nineties. Great image.

Liz Young

I was writing to Erica W. Jamieson, and now I see "We're Sorry, please enter something for your comment." I have trouble with this site. I don't seem to know how to enter anything, including a story.

That's the way I feel! It's the editing that's boring. And, you are a lot younger than I am.

Just opened the door to the novelist group for you - welcome! You might introduce yourself by telling us what you’re working on in the “Show Me Your Novel and I’ll Show You Mine” discussion if you're not too uncomfortable talking about what you're working on. I’ll look forward to chatting with you!

Meg Waite Clayton
Novelist Group Moderator
Author of the national bestseller The Wednesday Sisters and the forthcoming The Four Ms. Bradwells (Ballantine, March 2011)

Hiya! This response shows how often I go on SheWrites! That will change.
thanks for the connection.

Hi Erica,

Welcome to the Bloggers Let’s Make it Work group! So glad you are here. If you haven’t already please visit the discussion New Members Visit Here First, tell us about your blog so we can list it on the members blog index.
I hope you will find, as I did, a great sense of community, loads of information and resources, and an incredible amount of talent.
Jump in on ongoing discussions or start one if there is an issue you would like to discuss.

Let me know if you have any questions.
Look forward to reading your posts.
Warm regards,
Julie Jeffs
Beginning a Life at 50
www.juliejeffs.blogspot.com