Short Story Inspirations and "Mrs. Dalloway"

On Friday, I headed to Columbia to see my grad school friend who had a catastrophic stroke 2 years ago and now lives in a skilled nursing unit. After that visit, I went to a different grad school friend, my upstairs neighbor in long-ago grad school days. We are both writers, both college English teachers, both on life paths similar and different.Lately she's been attending a Shut Up and Write group, which has been working for her in all sorts of ways. I keep thinking I might go with her on a Friday when her group meets. I'm also thinking it might make an interesting experiment for my own writing classes that I teach.As I've been driving these past few days, I had an idea for my idea that I had a year ago on the 100 year anniversary of the publication of Mrs. Dalloway. I wrote about it in this blog post: "Now I am thinking of new projects, a new narrative that might weave the voice of an older woman in seminary, a younger woman teaching section after section of freshman comp in a…