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Riehl Life Village Wisdom for the 21st CenturyRiehl Life Village Wisdom for the 21st CenturyCreating connections through the arts and across cultures. Articles
Roses in the Refrigerator, Day After Valentine?s Day
2008-02-15 20:03:00 The day after Valentine ’s Day one bouquet of roses rises tall on my kitchen counter (the long-stems). The shorter-stems reside on a refrigerator shelf, extending their life (shelf life?) and making me glad everytime I open the refrigerator door. More About: Roses
Acres of Roses arriving on Valentine?s Day doorstep 2008 made me weak and k
2008-02-14 23:08:00 Twice I responded to the summoning of my doorbell. Twice a grinning and harried floral delivery man handed me a huge bouquet of roses…not red, not pink, but peachy…my favorite color. A dozen times 2 = 2 dozen roses for 2008 Valentine ’s Day. I’m sure sometime in my life I’ve been sent flowers by delivery. But, it’s been ... More About: Roses , Made , Acres
Happy Valentine?s Day, Black History Month!
2008-02-14 22:11:00 As I’ve met wonderful African American couples during the months since I’ve moved from Northern Califronia to St. Louis, I thought it would be fun to introduce you to three couples and their love stories today…to celebrate the confluence of Valentine ’s Day in the Middle of Black History Month. You’ll meet: –Linda Jones Hawkins and Charles Hawkins –Sylvia ... More About: Happy , Black History
Linda Jones Hawkins and Charles Hawkins? cuddled prayers makes the couple?a
2008-02-14 22:03:00 I met Linda Jones Hawkins and Charles Hawkins at the 2007 Kwanzaa celebration in St. Louis . Linda showed me her beautiful poems and paintings, while Charles stood by, beaming. They shared their love story with me (Linda speaking): “And the story goes? She found a handsome King and he found a beautiful queen, while playing in ... More About: Prayers , Couple
Carlos & Sylvia Jenkins
2008-02-14 21:35:00 Carlos & Sylvia Jenkins I met Carlos & Sylvia Jenkins at the Missouri History Museum evening featuring Ron Himes. Carlos and Sylvia run CJS Vision 500, LLC, a travel agency together (click for website), and must be away today on a Romantic Get-away. They have a great Love Story to share with you when they get ... More About: Louis , African American , Carlos
Howard and Vickie Denson?s Shared Passions = Longlasting partnership on all
2008-02-14 21:20:00 Howard and Vickie Denson: Shared passion keeps them together, and fun. Photo by St. Louis Magazine Click here to read a great story about Howard and Vickie Denson in St Louis Magazine, February 2006, article: “Happily Ever After.” “Howard and Vickie Denson pack their life with shared passions? business, travel, church, art and jazz…. Now the kids ... More About: Howard
Tweit & Riehl begin ?Blog Duet?: How do we nurture ourselves and still nurt
2008-02-14 04:32:00 Susan Tweit, began our blog duet yesterday,Tuesday, February 12, 2008, with her post on “Community of the Land,” titled “Finding your balance: outward and inward.” Susan J. Tweit telling plant stories in Colorado Janet Riehl performs “Big Butts Are Beautiful” As a journalist, memoirist, blogger, and speaker I’ve known Susan through two organizations: Women Writing the West and ... More About: Blog
St. Louis Black Rep Company?s Fireside Chat #2: August Wilson?s ?Radio Golf
2008-02-12 23:54:00 The Black Rep Company ’s website describes August Wilson’s “Radio Golf ” like this: The final installment in Wilson’s cycle of ten plays that examines the African-American experience in 20th century America, and the tenth to be produced by The Black Rep. The epic tale centers on Harmond Wilks, an Ivy League-educated lawyer who plans to declare his ... More About: Chat
?Iron Ladies of Liberia? airs on KETC in April?Sneak Preview of Independent
2008-02-08 20:17:00 Alex Detrick pulled together another fine evening last night at the Missouri History Museum, featuring Independent Lens film “Iron Ladies of Liberia ” which will later air on KETC/Channel 9 April 6th at 11 p.m. Click here for video clip and political background on Liberia and the film. Click here for 2005 Washington Post article written before ... More About: Preview
Writers in the Sky February Newsletter presents Riehl?s poem ?Window Frame?
2008-02-08 19:15:00 Yvonne Perry of Writers in the Sky Creative Writing Services asked me to send her a poem for her February newsletter. Click here to read the entire newsletter. I sent an excerpt from WINDOW FRAME originally published in “Sightlines: A Poet’s Diary” and dedicated to my mother Ruth Evelyn Johnston Thompson (January 4, 1916-May 1, 2006). ... More About: Presents , Newsletter , Poem , Window
Happy Losar! (Tibetan New Year)
2008-02-07 23:43:00 Happy Losar ! Happy Tibetan New Year ! To read the story of Losar from Namgyal Monastery (Personal Monastery of H.H. the Dalai Lama) click here. More About: Happy
Alla?s Historical Dallas Bed & Breakfast?a heavenly blend of old and new
2008-02-06 18:36:00 If you live in the Dallas area…if you’re travelling to the Dallas area…If you live anywhere in Texas…come on down to Alla ’s Historical Dallas Bed and Breakfast where old ways and new ways meet to offer a thoroughly modern version of old world hospitality…and, enjoy the rooster! Alla is what makes Alla’s B & B a ... More About: Blend
Riehlife Back of the Envelope Book Marketing Plan for ?Pen to Print? Panel
2008-02-03 15:50:00 In 2006 I published my book “Sightlines: A Poet’s Diary”with iUniverse. While my first-line audience was friends and family, I quickly found there were second-third-and-fourth-line audiences rippling out there who were interest in my book, my topic, and by extension, in me and what I thought and had to say. I marketed “Sightlines” by every ... More About: Marketing , Book , Print , Back , Panel
SCN Conference: Circles of Conversations
2008-02-02 23:43:00 Barbara Jo Brothers, of San Antonio (nee New Orleans ), and discuss levels of losses in New Orleans after Katrina…how there are subtle losses, far more reaching and harder to reconstruct than the buildings. How are these subtle losses to be healed? Loss of relationship? The loss of how places were before Katrina…and all the way ... More About: New Mexico , Austin , Beverly Hills , Conference
SCN?s National Memoir Conference Henfest 130 strong?like relaxing and writi
2008-02-02 23:07:00 “Who’s the designer for your blouse?” asks Martha Fleming from San Antonio, Texas. “Gosh, I don’t know. Go ahead and check the label,” I say, holding up the the inside collar for her inspection. It’s “Connie ’s Moon Light.” I bought it at the St. Louis Art Museum boutique right before I left because I thought its ... More About: National , Relaxing , Memoir , Strong
SCN Caberet: Musical Memories & Anecdotes with Sue Bilch & Paullette McDoug
2008-02-02 22:53:00 My father has a phrase for it in his beautiful poem: “Music brings memories.” Yes, indeed it does. Working from that premise, Sue Bilch and Paullette McDougal presented a thrilling cabaret performance for the Story Circle Network Saturday luncheon. It occurred to me during the performance, as I listened, enjoyed, and looked around the room, that ... More About: Musical , Write , Memories , Anecdotes
Riehlife Writing Idea: Sensory Scan as Memory Prompt
2008-02-02 22:33:00 When Jake Lorfing and I were talking yesterday about some long ago work I felt would be worthy writing material, he said, “But I don’t remember anything; it’s too long ago.” I suggested he do a Sensory Scan . You can do this, too. 1) Take each sense in turn: sight, sound, taste, touch, smell. 2) Scan each sense. ... More About: Writing , Memory , Write , Idea
Frances Nail, Austin author, blazing trails
2008-02-02 22:27:00 Jake Lorfing told me a bit about Austin author Frances Nail who “began to write after her 70th birthday. She is 81 now, and her stories enjoy a wide following.” I found this link that tells about a one-woman show “I’m Not the Woman I Was” which is described as “the telling of a story ... More About: Author , Trails
Kenoter Nancy Slonim Aronie knocks our socks off at SCN National Memoir Con
2008-02-02 16:55:00 By chance, I encountered Nancy in the hallway before her talk. My gaze caught by the runching and siver-shine of her skirt. She was also sock-footed, sans shoes. “Oh, I had these shoes especially made,” she mentioned off-handly. “Forgive my gaze, it was the lines and fabric of your skirt that caught my eye. I’m ... More About: National , Memoir , Socks
SCN Conference Silent Auction Sampling
2008-02-02 16:36:00 Silent auctions can be good fund-raisers for organizations. Here at the Story Circle Network National Memoir Conference in Austin, we’re having one, too. Cleverly, after the rousing keynote address by Nancy Slonim Aronie (who turned out to be my sister in socks), the closing event of the evening was a lovely dessert buffet in the ... More About: Auction , Silent
Sally Andrade?s Austin Picks & Toma Mi Corazon, El Paso (a ?prima?/cousin t
2008-02-02 00:20:00 Hi, Janet, How cool that you’re in Austin and having a great time! Some other places that you might enjoying visiting to eat out are the East Side Cafe which is not too far from where we used to live in Wilshire Woods (http://www.eastsidecafeaustin.com/) and Curra’s (http://www.currasgrill.com), both favorites of mine. And BE SURE to visit ... More About: El Paso , Andrade , Prima , Toma
SCN Conference Goody Bag makes me feel like a movie star
2008-02-01 21:01:00 At registration each of us received a beautiful translucent lavendar Goodie Bag. Did we have any Faragamo shoes inside? Nope, but there were teas, candies, special soaps, lotion a hand-crafted journal, and “The Tale of Cuckoo Bow Wood” from the Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter Mysteries by Susan Wittig Albert, the founder of Story Circles ... More About: Movie , Goody , Star , Feel , Conference
Austin?s Las Manitas & Toma Mi Corazon XVI lead off cozy, sparkling Texas m
2008-02-01 20:54:00 Jake Lorfing came to my “Write Your Way Through Grief” workshop last year at Naropa and we formed a bond around writing and Buddhist practice. He’s a relaxed, easy man who embodies his practice without fuss…the walking model, for me, of equanimity, or eveness and steadiness. Jake is involved in a variety of engaged social ... More About: Cozy , Austin , Texas , Lead , Toma
Journey to National Memoir Conference, Austin, Texas, Story Circle Network?
2008-02-01 15:24:00 Yesterday as I stepped out of my St. Louis apartment to walk my five blocks to the Metrolink, I opened the door to snow. Journey s in one’s 50s are different than in ones 20s…but yesterday I did my best to meet all the little twirks of modern travel with a measure of joie de vivre. ... More About: National , Story , Network , Austin
Publishing Strategies Examined in Redwood Coast Review article by Daniel Ba
2008-01-31 13:21:00 Click here to read Redwood Coast Review ’s lead article by Daniel Barth, “Staying Afloat: The poor devil author in the 21st century,” online in pdf form. Daniel Barth’s article is well-researched and chockfull of information about Big Picture Publishing and how three authors in his region, Northern California, have responded in three distinctive ways to ... More About: Article , Strategies
?Change Therapy? hosts progressive dinner party-style blog carnival?Riehlif
2008-01-31 02:38:00 If you like blog carnivals, you’ll love visiting Isabella Mori’s “Change Therapy” site where she’s serving the appetizers for a progressive dinnerparty-style Soup to Nuts blog carnival. One of my blog postings on my father’s longevity and youthful outlook secrets is one of the appetizer dishes she is serving up. I think you’ll find this ... More About: Progressive , Carnival , Party , Dinner
Andrew Lloyd Webber?s CATS takes on new sheen as middleschool thespians per
2008-01-29 16:23:00 I first encountered the word of the talented and entertaining Antona Smith (writing under the name Tayé Foster Bradshaw) at the St. Louis Writers Guild Wired Coffee Open Mic. When Antona told me about her youngest son and middle child Joshua’s choir performances, I asked her to share this work with you. Check out Antona’s ... More About: Cats , Lloyd , Andrew , Andrew Lloyd Webber
Ecology Tip of the Day: Eliminate unwanted catalogs, simplify your life, sa
2008-01-25 17:09:00 While setting up my apartment in the Central West End in St. Louis after my move from Northern California, I ordered some furniture over the web. The company apparently sold my contact information to all the catalog companies in the world, and suddenly, my mailbox was beseiged by unsolicited mail from eager merchants. If you, ... More About: Life , Ecology
Thus sayeth the Buddha
2008-01-25 09:46:00 ?We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.? —The Buddha (historically, Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism , 563-483 B.C.) More About: Grace Notes
Clinton-Obama Spat provokes ?1789 contribution campaign,? Alan Brody makes
More articles from this author:2008-01-24 00:54:00 It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of ... More About: Bush , Barack Obama , Bill Clinton , John Edwards , Democratic Candidates 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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