Designing Women Boutique reboots salon series for the fall

The first DWB Salon Series lecture of the season was given by writer Lucia Blinn on Sept. 28 at Designing Women Boutique.

  • By Niki Kottmann
  • | 3:01 p.m. September 28, 2017
  • Sarasota
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Author/poet/storyteller Lucia Blinn didn't always start as a writer.

She was in the advertisement industry for many years in New York and Chicago, but now the new Sarasota Bay Club resident writes poetry about the world around her — for both herself and her late husband, Marty.

One poem she shared at her DWB Salon Series lecture on Sept. 28 at Designing Women Boutique was comically relatable, judging by all the laughs she got from her audience.

"An iced latte would have sufficed for a welcome," she said of her arrival at Sarasota Bay Club the weekend Hurricane Irma hit the gulf coast. 

The next Salon Series lecture will be hosted by Kenneth Hension, MD Internal Medicine and Cardiology, at 11:30 a.m. on Oct. 26 at Designing Women Boutique. 

 

Co-Chairwomen Susan Roosa, Chris Sancin and Aynne Manning
Co-Chairwomen Susan Roosa, Chris Sancin and Aynne Manning
Tom Urfer and speaker Lucia Blinn
Tom Urfer and speaker Lucia Blinn
Sue Lamy, Boutique Manager Marisa Fowler and Board President Ida Zito
Sue Lamy, Boutique Manager Marisa Fowler and Board President Ida Zito
Gudrun and Jorgen Graugaard
Gudrun and Jorgen Graugaard
Margie Kraft and Lynn Robbins
Margie Kraft and Lynn Robbins
Speaker Lucia Blinn is the author of several books, a few of which she read from at the Salon Series lecture on Sept. 28 at Designing Women Boutique.
Speaker Lucia Blinn is the author of several books, a few of which she read from at the Salon Series lecture on Sept. 28 at Designing Women Boutique.
Susie Fink and Julie Albino
Susie Fink and Julie Albino
Elaine Sandler, Rita Sinaiko and Sally Yanowitz
Elaine Sandler, Rita Sinaiko and Sally Yanowitz
Speaker Lucia Blinn reads excerpts from several of her works of poetry and her book
Speaker Lucia Blinn reads excerpts from several of her works of poetry and her book "Memos to Marty" at her Salon Series lecture on Sept. 28 at Designing Women Boutique.
Lois Vancavage, Gretchen Lindelof and Debbie Shapiro
Lois Vancavage, Gretchen Lindelof and Debbie Shapiro
Charlene Nicholas, Renee Sheade and O'Lyn Callahan
Charlene Nicholas, Renee Sheade and O'Lyn Callahan
Guests eat lunch before listening to Lucia Blinn's Salon Series lecture on Sept. 28 at Designing Women Boutique.
Guests eat lunch before listening to Lucia Blinn's Salon Series lecture on Sept. 28 at Designing Women Boutique.
Sherril Morse and Pat Fennessey
Sherril Morse and Pat Fennessey
Alice Cotman and Dianne Brin
Alice Cotman and Dianne Brin

 

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