Wizard Altar, by Janet Riehl “Thinking as if…magic is real.”
If someone gave you a million dollars, what would you do with it?
If you could be a character from any book, who would you be?
What is the silliest thing to ever happen to you?
SPECIAL EVENTS AT HAYNER Hayner Branch Library Events (OASIS Alton Center, Alton Square Mall) “Memories: Each Day Radiant with New Meaning” August 16, 2006 reading, talk, and workshop Janet Grace Riehl, author Sightlines: A Poet’s Diary 1 p.m. –Talk and Poetry Reading 2-4 p.m. Workshop: “Writing Memories” Memories—and our choices in how we live with…
(From “Sightlines: A Poet’s Diary”) We’d fixed up the White Cottage really nice. When I came down with the mumps, Daddy stayed home, read to me and put in an indoor bathroom. Our family moved a few paces down to the Big Brown House from the White Cottage when the Great-Aunties died. When we first…
The Merchant of Venice (excerpt) Act 4, Scene 1 by William Shakespeare Portia: The quality of mercy is not strain’d, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes: ‘Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes The throned monarch…
I arrived in Lake County a few days before Thanksgiving in order to visit friends and one of the landscapes of mountain and water that hug my heart. The weather was unseasonably warm with blue skies and intense light. My host loaded up our kayaks into his truck. We paddles from the county park over…
Readers have written—even called!–wanting to know what’s going on with me and with the Riehlife site. As to both, I can say, “We are under construction. Pardon our dust.” First, as to the site, because that’s more simple: We’re in the process of shifting from a standard blog-column with a website sidebar to a visual…
Family stories do not have to be diary-like stories. They can be word ideas. Little boy in diaper. Icecream cone. There, now: don’t you get vivid images and memories from these phrases?