Finding a Voice

My brother is finished school for the summer (he’s an educational assistant and drives the special needs bus for William Derby School in Strasbourg). Today – or tomorrow – he’s heading out to Arlington Beach to be their photographer/videographer for the summer camping season (about 5 weeks). I’ll be there for family camp in a couple of weeks.

In the meantime, I’ve got a few things to do.

• Cleaning to get ready for Jeffrey’s annual Summer Open House on Thursday, July 24^th. (Corresponds with family camp.)
• Sorting my accumulation of papers from the past 10 months
• Taxes! (I know, I’m late. But I don’t owe anything this year and don’t expect much back, if anything, so that kind of took the urgency out of it.)
• Writing, writing, writing. I’m waiting for final confirmation of a book deal for Servants Anonymous Foundation. I’m also waiting final confirmation about presenting a paper at a conference on ecumenism in early September. And I have a couple of other book ideas which need proposals written. (If you’re thinking of writing a book, or pitching one to a publisher, I highly recommend How to Write a Book Proposal by Michael Larsen.)
• Play my “new” piano. When my bosses, Lance and Vicki Cornwell, took over the newspaper in March 2007, there was a piano stored in the back area of their Nokomis building. Apparently someone is supposed to pick it up, but after more than a year of waiting and not even knowing who to expect, they told me I can have it. Just HAVE it! It’s a decent piano, in reasonable tune, with only one broken key on the bass end. So tomorrow I’ve got a crew of guys coming to move it after church.
• Get into a new rhythm on this blog!!!

Gotta go!