At the Toastmasters District 13 Conference

On November 19, I represented my division in the Humorous Speech contest with "Confessions of a Baseball Wife." I was the first speaker, which is always a difficult position. Later, many people told me how much they laughed throughout my speech.
Finally in the evening the winners were announced. I won Third Place in the District 13 contest and took home a beautiful trophy. Will I compete again next year? I don't know yet, since it will be a tough act to follow.

Victorious Return from West Virginia

Last Saturday, my husband and I ventured to Bridgeport, West Virginia, where the Division A District 13 Toastmasters Humorous Speech Contest took place.

To make a long story short, I won the trophy as First Place winner and will now represent my division at the district level in November. I got lots of laughs, which is definitely the best award a humorous speaker can earn.

And the Winner is ...

Last Monday, my Toastmasters club held a Humorous Speech contest. I decided to participate for the first time ever with my speech "Confessions of a Baseball Wife." After all, I had already given the speech while working on my Entertaining Speaker manual and had won First Place in the In Other Words contest at the Pennwriters Conference 2011.
Indeed, I beat two award-winning speakers to win First Place in my club! I will now advance to the area contest.