Today has been spent doing last minute preparations for Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow. My husband and I are going to his mother's for dinner. She is not well and asked us if we would help her cook, so we are. Unfortunately, this afternoon I pulled a muscle in my lower left hip. I had been sore because a few days ago I have been down on my hands and knees and on a stool rearranging underneath my kitchen sink because of a leak. My hip had been sore from that for a couple of days and then all I did was try to sit down in my recliner and I must have sat on it wrong or something because I could feel it and knew I had pulled something. Now, I can hardly get on and off the toilet or get up and down out of a chair. And if I drop something in the floor, forget it. It'll just have to stay there until my husband can pick it up. It's very frustrating because I'm very active and I hate being limited.
Earlier this week I sent a letter to Margaret Britton Vaughn telling her how much I love her poetry. I also sent her a poem and a personal essay that I had written awhile back. She has a publishing company in Bell Buckle, Tn and she helps poets and writers to write better and to learn about publishing. She has also published some poets and writer's works before. I don't have any misconceptions about her publishing my work. I didn't write to her for that. I wrote because I really need help improving my writing and I would like to publish a book of poems some day. I don't ever expect to be on the best seller list. The only gratification I would get from it would be holding a published work of mine in my hands. So, this afternoon she called me and told me that she received my letter and that she likes the way I write. She said she has some suggestions for my story that I sent to her and she wants me to come and visit her after Christmas! I'm very excited about that. I know I'm not the first one to visit her and I'm certainly not the first one she has ever given advice to, but I'm really excited about learning more about how I can write better so that maybe at least one story of mine will be published in a literary magazine of some type. I think that would be very gratifying. I really don't even care if I get paid or not. Just being able to say that some of my works have been published somewhere it enough for me. Also, it would help when I want to submit something for publication to a bigger publishing house that requires you to have been published in many places. I really hope to be able to visit her. She told me to keep in touch with her. I'll probably call her and plan a visit. Another exciting thing ... she writes song lyrics for Loretta Lynn.
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