Wanna know a beauty of a survival technique for those of us not yet on Oprah?
Mosey over to Telling Her Stories to read our latest Creative Catalyst post “Success Your Way” on how to keep your sanity in an all-too-predictable mainstream culture.
Collaborators: Janet Riehl and Stephanie Farrow
Alton Writers Guild, Regional Poetry Out Loud winners, and The Calhoun Entertainment Company performing a scene from Nunsense” kicked off the celebration. The Kevin Lucas Orchestra performed international music with gonzo band leader playing the marimba. Let me fan myself, Sister!
My collaborator and editor Stephanie Farrow and I blog monthly (1st Tuesday!) on Story Circle Network’s blog Telling Her Stories: The Broad View. We establish a theme in the anchor post and continue with two additional posts to deepen the theme. Cycle 3 in May-June-July considered “Fear: The Friendly Enemy.” This month we begin to…
Each year since Julia’s death in a car crash, August 16, 2004 is a day to pause to remember her in a special way. Here’s what I said for Julia’s fifth anniversary. Each year changes my relationship to this date. The last poem of “Sightlines: A Poet’s Diary” is “Anniversary.” You can listen to it…
Happy International Women’s Day. Here are a few favorite books by women: * “The Little School.” by Argentinian writer Alicia Partnoy. * “The Colour of the Moon” by the Greek author Alkouni Papadaki. * “Once in a Promised Land’ by Jordanian author Laila Halaby. * “A Handbook to Luck,” by Cuban author Cristina Garcia. *…
It’s perfectly possible to not know a word of a language, but to seem as if you know the language and culture well if you know the symbolic utterances and music of a language…it’s rhythms, rising and falling. If you know when to make sounds of sympathy and appreciation. If you know when to exclaim…
Patrick Gracewood on his Shadows on Stone blog picked up an interview by Susan Gallacher Turner on about my visual arts career. He shaped it into a post I found useful–as if the subject of the post were someone I knew, but not me. Patrick is “an artist, sculptor and designer interested in the intersection…