Cruising around the internet, I discovered this link at the Lake County Arts Council Website maintained by the inestimable Xian Yeagan: Keeping track of Janet Riehl as she wanders far. I thought you might get a kick out of it, as I did. It made me feel quite happy to know that there was still a little wake left in my passing from Lake County after nine years…one of those small deaths in the midst of life. Thank you, Xian, for this lift.
Title: CD launch dinner Part 6 (featuring Suzy Bogguss) Description: Stage 7, celebration: launch dinner at Sportsman Grille and Lodge. Janet reads Pop’s “I.M.A. Fox” that goes with his fox carving he sent as a gift. Interview with Cousin Suzy Bogguss. Janet and Suzy discuss her hard-won Nashville success, their family connection that began at…
Jorge Luis Borges wisdom on poetry from the Riehlife archives.
To complement Eden Maxwell’s excellent advice today on making rejection work in your creative life, look in Riehlife’s WRITE PEN! archives for more solid advice on using rejection by Nancy Connally, Janet Muirhead Hill…and (the other Janet) myself. My article “Relishing Rejection” was posted on “Eliot, a Literary Blog” as well as www.ezinearticles.com. August 24,…
When I lived in Botswana during the 1970s, my name in Setwana was (and is) “Naledi”–which means “star.” Although it sounds exalted, it’s not an uncommon name. Here’s how I got my name. During the first weeks of Peace Corps language and cultural training, I asked my teachers if I could have a name in…
Last May we began the long journey of making our audio book “Sightlines: A Family Love Story in Poetry and Music.” Here’s the post from that time describing my drive down from St. Louis the Nashville. A year later, it’s still a long drive in the country (albeit on freeways) and a pretty one, to…
This conversation with Joseph LaMarque is the seventh in my series of profiles on African-American fine artists and leaders of cultural organizations in St. Louis which now include (in alphabetical order): Rene Dimanche Jr., Ron Himes, Joseph La Marque, Edna J. Patterson Petty, Robert Powell, Freida L. Wheaton, and Rochleigh Z. Wholfe. You can go…
“Janet Riehl, who has had such a good effect on the arts in Lake County, has moved for now to collaborate with her poet father in the Midwest”…nice.
Great pics….