Rishikesh Memories with links for exploring

Byriehlifegrace January 2, 2008January 2, 2008

Listening to NPR yesterday I heard a long forgotten place name on the globe: Rishikesh.

I traveled to Rishikesh in the mid-1970s in the middle of my Peace Corps tour in Ghana. Imagine: West Africa, Egypt (stopover), 6 weeks of Northern Indian travel on third class trains, then back by way of the Middle East and…Ghana once more.

Rishikesh is the place made most famous by the Beatles and Mia Farrow when they followed Maharishi Mahesh Yogi there.

Soul Jerky…a place to read more about the Beatles in India and see a U-Tube video.

Joy in Serving and Connecting through Comedy: Riehlife Interview with Theo McKinney guest experience specialist at Hotel Carlton, San Francisco

Byriehlifegrace October 12, 2007October 20, 2007

The Hotel Carleton is: enchanting, international, eclectic, cheerful, and bohemian. So is Guest Experience Specialist Theo McKinney. Maybe that’s why the two are a well suited and fitted. Riehlife: Theo, as you know my brief encounter with you at the Hotel Carlton was a highlight of my recent visit to San Francisco because of the…

Blogged.com Editorial Review Rates Riehlife GREAT!

Byriehlifegrace April 10, 2008April 11, 2008

I received a nice surprise note from Amy Liu of Blogged.com’s editorial department who told me that Riehlife ranked 189th out of 3,562 blogs on books…and received an 8.0 (GREAT) score out of a possible 10 (EXCELLENT) when the Blogged.com editors recently reviewed my blog in the entertainment/Books category of Blogged.com. Amy says: This is…

Blog Duet: Curating the Examined Life

Byriehlifegrace April 28, 2008April 29, 2008

Crazy Ali Poet of Turkey Photo by Marcy Burns An unexamined life is not worth living. —Socrates An examined life is worth curating. —Janet Riehl Like a museum curator chooses what to put in the exhibit and where to put it, we all choose where and when and with whom to place the events that…

“I Remember”–the woman & her husband’s perspective

Byriehlifegrace May 28, 2007May 16, 2008

I REMEMBER The Woman Remembers I remember, as a child, longing for summer and sunshine during the coldest months of the year. I sometimes doubted that winter would ever end. I remember the heat of the sun. My skin blistered. I remember kissing Don in the back seat, and our guilty touches. I remember the…

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Blowing Bubbles: Playing to Learn

Byriehlifegrace October 15, 2009

Blowing bubbles as a scientific experiment. How far away from your mouth makes the best bubble? Where on the hill? What about wind currents? Children know the answers to these questions. Do you?

Ah, Africa

“I will take you halfway.”

Byriehlifegrace January 10, 2007April 29, 2007

At the Albuquerque Airport I stepped out, curbside, looking for some sensible way to carry four containers with only two arms. I was toting two small suitcases, a side bag, and the familiar family solution for overflow—a cardboard box. My friend chauffeuring me spotted the carts. The price seemed right—just a quarter. Yippee! I had…

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