mb Instructor Steve Friedman just won a Henry R. Luce Award for his writing, AND an essay he wrote about golfing with his dad got chosen for the BestAmerican Sports Writing 2005. Doesn't that make you want to take his personal essay boot camp?

Meanwhile, this typically would go in the AvantGuild Member News section, but I didn't put it in this Monday and next Monday will be too late:

AvantGuild member author, Macintosh specialist and MacAddict Contributing Editor Deborah Shadovitz is hosting a MacGathering™ May 19-20 in Los Angeles. "This year it's got seminars for small office/home office folks; this sub-theme is called the SoHo Tech Show™ and is the same location. It's got some helpful stuff for my fellow writers."