At the end of the last century a friend of mine started a group and called it Women of Words. Her name is Connie Anderson. WOW has always been fairly loosey goosey, no dues, no rosters, very informal. At its height I think there were 5 or 6 groups, women meeting monthly to talk about what they were up to and get support to write. Connie is a professional editor and this was her marketing.

I met her in 1998 at a BNI meeting in Bloomington, MN. There were just 22 of us, only 43 members in the state of Minnesota and we were there. I did 17 websites that first year after meeting Connie, as it was the beginnings of the world wide web and my skills were in need.

Over the years the WOW women have come and gone, showed up and dropped off, still keeping a core of itself in place, mainly organized via a private Facebook group. I moved away in 2004 and maybe attended another 5 since then. I bought the domain name on October 30, 2000. And it has remained mine. At some point Connie told me she didn’t want a website with it and I could keep the name so I did. And now, 25 years later, I am here to see that women have the means to amplify their voices. It’s time. It’s more than time.