From: Marge Loch-Wouters <lochwout>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 06:39:49 -0500

I was fortunate to be in the audience for Sharon Creech's remarks 10/22 in Madison. I think it is pretty safe to say that I was one of the people who was blown away!

Sharon compared her journey of how she became a writer, and what she brought to her writing of WTM and Absolutely Normal Chaos with a being on a raft on the river. There are many streams that have contributed; much
"fishing in the air" that brought ideas and themes to the fore and many people who have shared her raft.

She spoke movingly of her father's search for his childhood home near Antigo when she herself was a child. She also spoke about how much and deeply she missed her children when they went off to college in the states.
 Both of these memories of longing for home and family figured deeply in her writing of WTM.

Her speech deepened my appreciation for WTM and the incredible "classic metaphorical journey" theme and "stranger comes to town" theme that she wove together in her writing of it. Like Sharon herself, the speech was humorous, down-to?rth, moving and insightful.


Marge Loch-Wouters lochwout at athenet.net Menasha's Public Library lochwouters at winnefox.org Menasha WI 54952 414 751Q65
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