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Write what you want to read

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Hi Friends,

Because writer’s block is your muse entertaining its imagination, this issue includes:

A sip…

Writing is an escapist activity. And there is nothing like a cocktail to help one ease into an escapist frame of mind.

Try the Boat House Punch, your muse will appreciate the escape from the ordinary.

A shout out…

Although the second of four children, Toni Morrison was the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first African American woman editor in fiction at Random House, and often advised one to write what one wishes to read.

She began penning her debut, The Bluest Eye, in 1965 while single-parenting two children. It was written over a period of four years, published when she was thirty-nine years old, and is considered important, non-awarded required reading by many colleges and universities.

Her commentary on African American life and race relations is well documented in her novels, plays, children’s books, essays, pe…