Okay, so Ardis and I went to Dawn Creations in Lanesville, on St. John’s Church Road, just behind Zabel’s Hardware. At Dawn Creations, we had home-made soup, sub sandwiches and home-made lemon cake (all GOOD). The coffee was outstanding.
Anyway, we were leaving and started talking to the owner/baker, Dawn Clifton, and she turns out to be The Lady With The Cow In Her Kitchen! A couple of years ago, I wrote a story called “Home on the Range” for the Southern Indiana Writers Group’s anthology, IT’S ALWAYS SOMETHING, based (very loosely) on a newspaper article about a cow that invaded a woman’s baking kitchen. This area being the way it is, I knew it was only a matter of time before I met her, and yesterday was the day.
She was very good-natured about it, and blessed us with a blow-by-blow personal account of what happened. SHE ought to be a writer–the way she told the story, which must have been harrowing at the time, had us holding our sides, laughing. She’s also a good cook and a lovely person.
Here she is, standing next to Dale the Whale–er, I mean me.
Today, I’m going back by the restaurant to take her a copy of the book with the cow story in it. To read the article in The Corydon Democrat about What Really Happened, click here.
To read an excerpt of the story, click here.
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I discovered your fun blog quite by accident, and boy was I thrilled to see the post on your trip to Carmel and The Mystery Company! Our paths must have crossed that day. Anyway, if you or anyone in your group is interested, there will be a day-long writers’ workshop at The Mystery Company on April 4th. If you’re interested, drop me a line at kitehrman@usa.com.
Cheers!
Kit Ehrman