After the workshop, most of the workshop members joined Pamela and Maria and I for lunch at the Round House Cafe, Scott Carrino reserved a table for us at his popular new cafe in Cambridge. The group has a special chemistry to it, everyone seemed to talk safely and openly about their creative ambitions, their desire to form community, to share and sell their work, to journal for themselves.

Blogs are about voice and identity. Pamela Rickenbach spoke powerfully about all of the women in human history – countless thousands – who were burned to death as witches over the past 400 years. Historians argue about how many died, but there is no argument many women were tortured and killed for raising their voices and speaking their minds.

Now, I argued, we have the most powerful tools ever conceived to stand in our truth and unleash the creative spirit that lives in every one of us. And the worst thing to fear from writing is upsetting Uncle Harry.  An exciting time, an exciting day. I was so pleased to share this day with Maria, who spoke of her own artistic encounter with technology, of how she has used her blog to create her art and sell it to the world. More to come tomorrow.