Attendees: Muhammad Maruf, Joann, Alexa Bliski, Karen Bliski, Andrea Gadson, JoAnn McLaughlin
Guests: Elaine, Lucille Stewart
Scribe: Bill Merritt
Education: This segment was eliminated from our meeting for this session.
Writing Exercise: Alexa brought three pictures. Members selected a picture and spent 15 minutes writing about the picture. Interesting perspectives were shared.
For our next meeting, members were asked to consider bringing in their favorite picture and write about it in the meeting.
Sharing: Bill shared his writing on life as a left handed person. He also shared his initial research on the genealogy of his family.
Mohammad shared a new segment on his genealogy research. This prompted additional insight from our guests who had experience in this area. Elaine had done extensive research on her family.
Business: We had two guests, Lucille and Elaine, who specialize in grant writing and genealogy studies.
The group discussed allotting more time in the meeting to writing.