Wow, how time flies! It feels like a matter of months since I received an e-mail containing an invitation to be a demonstrator at the American Woodturners Association annual symposium to be held in Kansas City in Missouri late in June 2017. I jumped at the offer... this is an event I've longed to attend, especially reading summaries of who demonstrates, how many people treat this event as a pilgrimage and just how many wood artists I look up to congregate there to share ideas