A creative person has to create. It doesn’t really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus gardens where he could, in Mexico, let him do that, but something that is creative has to go on.
—Katherine Dunham…click here to read her bio in the Black Collegian.
When one wrinkle is made smooth, I notice a bump beyond…in the distance…and want to go there and explore. What could that bump be? A mountain, perhaps? Or, just a molehill? I see a vast plain, like a tapestry carpet stretching out before me…miles to the mountain. I will journey over the plains, but need…
“Child and Hawk Dream,” by Judy Tart Click here to find an audio link of my talk “Memento Mori: Life and Death Moment by Moment” at the Universalist Unitarian Church of Riverside on March 16, 2008. You’ll also hear brief cello interludes by Dennis Dettloff. About 20 minutes. Unfortunately, this doesn’t give you Tiffany Alvarado’s…
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…
I met David Lucas through the St. Louis Writers Guild. Recently, at the Missouri Writers Guild, he was a whirl of activity–making everything work as it should. David is a poet, genre writer, and blogger. His blogs show his multi-dimensional interests: writing, self-defense, and dating locations in and around St. Louis. Today on Riehlife he’s…
Womens Memoirs published my story “Passage into Elderhood: Happy 60th birthday” on my 2011 birthday December 29th exactly two years after I celebrated my 60th birthday by returning to Ghana. Long ago a Ghanaian friend asked me, “Janet, what kind of old woman do you want to be?” This story is the answer to his…
Week Seven July 13-17 Suzy Bogguss, my cousin, joins us this week from Nashville on our featured video. Find out how Suzy responded to “Sightlines: A Family Love Story in Poetry and Music.” Week seven marks the last three weeks of the Sightlines Internet tour. This week highlights two blogs and an Internet Radio Show….
Hello, Mrs. Dunham,
I have admired your dance and would like to place your dance photos on my website Joys of Dance. You inspire me to keep on dancing. They say, the most inspirational dancers are the ones who have been abused. I came from an emotionally abused home, and it was Jesus who gave me peace in the midst of the storm.
God bless you.
Ashira