Guest Post by Barbara Lee
MCWC Registrar
Barbara Lee has been the MCWC Registrar since 2005 after joining the board in 2003. As well as being a writer she worked for the Polaroid Corporation, as a hotel concierge and owned an interior design business. | I’ve been the registrar for the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference for years and there’s always something new. This year, 2014, was no exception. I got an email from a fellow asking if we would let him buy a “surprise” participation for his wife, Christi, whose birthday was a few days away. “Sure,” I said. “She can call me with her choices.” I registered her, ran the credit card charge and waited for her call. When she recovered from the shock and thrill of the gift, she did. I fairly beamed with vicarious joy as she chose her workshop: Novel led by Scott Hutchins. When she arrived at the start of conference, we met face-to-face. She was lovely; brunette, thirty-something, with a beaming toothy smile. I saw her in the hallways or coming from the ladies’ or at the first evening’s meet ‘n greet; she was having a wonderful time. The day after the conference ended I received an email in which she wrote:
This is why I do what I do. |