"It's Cindy Wooden's birthday today, and she told me last night that she had received one of the best birthday presents imaginable: she met her favorite author Marilynne Robinson," posts Marianne Love/Slight Detour. "It was actually the meeting of two worldly women writers from Sandpoint." Cindy, right, works at the Vatican as bureau chief for Catholic News Service. Marilynne is a Pulitzer Prize winning writer. More here.

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