The Spellabration
by Rosalind Foley on 02/08/12
Our Library Foundation recently sponsored an adult spelling bee. Funds raised will be used to buy books, e books and equipment. At the urging of a member of our weekly critique group who arranged for a sponsor, four of us, with a lot of humor and some trepidation, agreed to participate. It was great fun.
The competition was preceded by a spread of marvelous food and beverages and a lot of friendly chatter. Finally we faced our audience and four other teams of four each. We sailed through "lagniappe", "coif", "pterodactyl." Word by word, round by round, the joking and the pressure increased as teams began to be eliminated. I think it was on "cirrhosis" that our team triumphed. We came home with first place trophies: bobble head bumble bees. Mine sits on a bookshelf in my office near the photograph of my son crossing the finish of the New York Marathon. Both remind me to keep on trying.
