From 2000-2001 I sent out my poems, stories, and personal essays to national literary journals. I used Writers Relief, Inc., an author’s submission service, to help me with the logistical details of submission. I learned a bundle (notice the verb is “learn,” not “earn”!) and enjoyed getting all the mail, including the rejection letters. After […]
Emily Johnson of Austin, Texas hosts Eric Maisel today on Happy News.
KAHULUI, MAUI , HAWAI’I - In collaboration and partnership with the Maui community, His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama, will have the entire world as his audience as part of a realtime webcast of his public appearances on the island of Maui on April 24 and 25, 2007.
Claudia Dose’s live journal, “Flowers of My Mind,” hosts Eric Maisel.
Learn:
–how Ten Zen Second techniques can be used at the beginning of the creative process
–and throughout the day to ward off negative thinking
–and how the Ten Zen Second incantations differ from affirmations.
After Ernest Dempsey reviewed “Sightlines: A Poet’s Diary” on TCM Reviews , we struck up an email correspondence. We began to find out that even though we are from different generations (I am old enough to be his mother), and different cultures (he lives in Pakistan, and I’m in the USA), that we shared many values […]
Earth Day seems a fitting time to tell you about this environmental arts initiative in Lake County, Northern California, where I’ve been living for the past nine years.
Karen Turcotte-Williams and John Williams started the Sculpture Walk outside Middletown, California in 2003. It’s grown from a brave effort of just a few to a glorious effort […]
What is Earth Day and how did it start? Wikipedia tells us:
Earth Day proved extremely popular in the United States and around the world. The first Earth Day, in 1970, had participants and celebrants in two thousand colleges and universities, roughly ten thousand primary and secondary schools, and hundreds of communities across the United States. […]
Okay, I get my films late. Part of fuddy-duddy-hood and part of living in the country. And, worse (or better, maybe?) when I’m in Illinois, I get my films from the library. And Now Ladies and Gentleman, an Anglo-French co-production from 2003 directed by Claude LeLouch and an official selection of Cannes Film Festival Closing […]
In Kay’s Quiet Little Life blog, she explores the challenges of creating a meaningful artistic life while working to make a living from her efforts.
Kay Pere is a multi-dimensional performing songwriter, visual artist, writer, educator and activist whose work embodies a message of hope, healing, humor and humanity. When she isn’t traveling to perform, present […]
Pop (Erwin A. Thompson) had a reading and signing at Hayner Library in Alton, Illinois this week for his new Western–Cattle Country and Back Trail: Two Tales from the Thompson Western Series. He always delivers more content and more soul than any audience could hope for.
In the morning when I came downstairs, I heard him […]
