I’m A Clubwoman

Dorothy’s Stories

by karen on 07/10/09 at 8:26 pm

Do you write stories?  When we were all in school, our teachers assigned essays, and we were all writers.  After graduation, only a small handful of us continued to write.  I love to write news stories, and editorial blog stories, but I never try fiction or to relate my experiences.  Do you?

My friend, Dorothy Volkert, is an amazing woman who still writes for fun.  She doesn’t watch much TV, and spends her evenings writing stories.  Dorothy has led an amazing life, being a nurse in the army back in World War II.  She told her some of her story of misery and reward at one of our club meetings, and I wish she’d write a book of her stories.

This year one of Dorothy’s stories and one of her poems both won first place in the literature contests in GFWC Illinois.  I have posted both of them on the GFWC Illinois website, and I invite you to take a few minutes to enjoy Dorothy’s work.

Dorothy told me she believes there is an author in all of us.  Most of us never give her a chance to escape and see daylight.  She has encouraged me to try my hand.  I think I’ll start by just relating some eventful day in my life.  I’ll keep my stories in a special folder.  I may never share my “essays” with others, but they will probably be a lot of fun for me to read in years to come.  I haven’t kept a diary in over 50 years.

Then again…maybe I’ll win a prize in the short story contest next year.