Figuring things out

Today I am trying to add audio to this blog, using a CD I made several years ago.  For someone as inept as me, this is no easy task.  I would like my readers to hear my voice doing stories and songs I've written.  I find I can get music off the internet, but not off the CD.  I could put it on YouTube and download from that, but that is even more technology to master.  Where do I go from here?

I expect to have the profile improved by Monday.

Clearing out the stack

     This week, I am clearing my way forward by resigning from volunteer work.  I am no longer on the farmers' market committee.  I informed the Friends of the Library last night that I won't be doing publicity for them after December 31.  Before the snow flies, the trees along the trail will be planted. Once we have put in $3,000 in trees, that is done.  I exited from the Behrendt Park planning.  

     On November 1, I begin the wild ride that is NaNoWriMo.  Before that, I must finish the rough draft of the novel.  Then the winter will be spent polishing novels and getting them to publishers.   All of that and preparing the Oregon trip.   

Another day with the library

Today, I'm working on publicity for the Muehl Public Library Wine Tasting Event on November 6 and setting up performances from Caim, my friends Jacynth and Heather, from Northern Ireland and Scotland respectively.  They will be performing our library on St. Patrick's Day, 2011.   Seems that libraries are always in my life, one way or another.

Working toward June

Yesterday I took a course on blogging from Nikki Kallio at Fox Valley Technical College and set up this site. I ordered maps from most of the states I plan to visit so I can plan my route.  (Sadly, not from California.  They don't do paper maps any more, sign of the times.  You can't pin a web site to your bulletin board.)

Today, I am writing the e-mail I will send to libraries from here to Oregon and will work with Deb Marsh down at Express Printing to sketch out a postcard for those libraries without internet access.  There are still a few out there.   If I send out 20 e-mails or postcards a day from now through the end of the year, I should get enough work to pay for the trip, provided I pitch my tent in the national forest campgrounds.

What fun this is going to be!

I'm ready to go!

The journey begins

Traveling the World

Colleen Sutherland has been a traveling storyteller for 30 years, telling from Scotland to Australia, in 26 states and three Canadian provinces. 

Next year's children's summer reading program theme in in 48 states, "One World, Many Stories," is setting Sutherland off on yet another tour, this one to the Western states.  She'll start in Wisconsin, travel through Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, and Idaho to Oregon.   From there she will travel south through California then back through Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Iowa, and home.