Riehl ties for grand prize: Womens Memoirs kitchen scraps & holidays

Well, gosh! Heather Summerhayes Cariou and I tied as Grand Prize Winners for Matilda Butler and Kendra Bonnett’s Womens Memoirs Memoir Writing Contest Featuring Favorite Holidays. Heather Summerhayes Cariou’s story “The Sweet Ghost of Christmas Past” is published today on Womens Memoirs My story “Passage into Elderhood: Happy 60th Birthday” will be published soon. This…

Making Collaboration Work, Part 2: Womens Memoir Duo Kendra Bonnett & Matilda Butler

Collaboration. How do we work together to make that work better and more fun? This is our blog-of-the-month discussion on Riehlife. Read the first part of this interview with Kendra Bonnett and Matilda Butler to find out how they met. Riehlife continued interviewing this Womens Memoir duo to found out five keys to collaboration success….

Making Collaboration Work, Part 1:Women’s Memoir Duo Kendra Bonnett & Matilda Butler

Collaboration. Some folks are suited for it, and some aren’t. When it does work, worlds of resources combine, expand, and intersect toward common goals as shares ideas, knowledge, and learning through building consensus. How do we do that to make our work better, further-reaching, and…more fun? I invited Kendra Bonnett and Matilda Butler of Women’s…

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Riehlife recieves the Superior Scribble Award

Matilda Butler and Kendra Bonnett’s blog supports women writing their memoirs. They just gave me a wonderful compliment by announcing that they have chosen Riehlife as one of their five top picks for the Superior Scribbler Award. Here’s how they described Riehlife: Janet Riehl — an artist in the best and broadest sense of the…

Women’s Memoirs Launches with New Look!

Kendra Bonnett and Matilda Butler continue to amaze me with their jaw-dropping array of fascinating products and activities. Look on the right margin for their activities and then on the far right for their seven (yes, seven!) blogs. You can see for yourself at www.womensmemoirs.com as they change their popular site to launch it with…

Book Raves for “Sightlines: A Family Love Story in Poetry and Music.”

Kendra Bonnett reviews “Sightlines: A Family Love Story in Poetry and Music” on Women’s Memoirs Book Raves. Here’s an excerpt from her review: Although Sightlines is very personal, the reader is not left outside to be a distant observer, peering through a cracked door or listening at the keyhole. The reader recognizes the history, the…

Teleseminar Recording: Memoir Moments with Kendra Bonnett & Matilda Butler

Don’t miss the recording of our tele-seminar at Kendra Bonnett & Matilda Butler’s Women’s Memoirs site as they feature our teleseminar conversation on Memoir Moments. Kendra and Matilda introduce the recording like this: If you missed our informative conversation with Janet Grace Riehl, author of the memoir CD called Sightlines: A Family Love Story in…

Sightlines Blog Tour, Week 1 & Featured Video; Nashville Launch Dinner Send-off

Amazingly, I’m all over the internet this week. The joint’s jumping this week with five internet visits to blogging buddies. In addition to the three stops of my audio book blog tour, check out these other visits. Several readers have asked me to say more about my two African homecoming journeys last year. Here it…