We aren't all work at Minnesota NICE.  Our August meeting is usually an outing of some sort. This year we took the Jonathan Padelford river boat from Harriet Island up the Mississippi almost to Fort Snelling.  If you were along and posted pictures on another site, please post a link in the comments. And if you weren't along, we hope you'll join us next summer. In the meantime, join us for regular meetings (see schedule) and keep writing!

Our June meeting was an outing to the Wabasha Street Caves in Saint Paul where gansters once reigned supreme. Erica Vetch wrote a great blog about it, so click over to Coffee Cups and Camisoles to read all about it.

Nineteen Niceies gathered May 1-3 for the first annual Minnesota Nice Writer’s Retreat. We met in the woods on a lake at Camp Lebanon, near Little Falls, Minnesota. No agenda. Just computers, fellow writers and of course, chocolate.