St. Louis Black Rep Company brings Soyinka’s “Death and the King’s Horseman” to its main stage, Grandel Theatre, March 19-April 13, 2008

Wole Soyinka, playwright, “Death and the King’s Horseman”
I saw this play performed as part of the Wole Soyinka symposium in Carbondale, Illinois and I’m eager to see it performed again, right here in St. Louis.
The St. Louis Black Rep Company describes Wole Soyinka’s play “Death and the King’s Horseman” in this way:
Considered by many to [...]

Thich Nhat Hahn Room Featured Communion of Institute of Noetic Sciences’ “Shift in Action”

Beautiful multi-media presentation fully worthy of the topic “The End of Suffering.”
Brooks Cole who hosts the Thich Nhat Hahn Room introduces it in this way:
Very seldom as a media artist do I have the opportunity to be so moved by the material that I am composing with that tears are streaming down my face. [...]

Mortgage Lending: The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth—Fulfilling the Promise of Truth in Lending

If you want in-depth information on one of the most important issues facing the American economy today, read this article on mortgage lending in the SSRN’s Working Paper Series, co-written by ELIZABETH RENUART and my niece DIANE E. THOMPSON.
ORGANIZATION:
Social Science Research Network: Tomorrow’s Research Today
TITLE:
“The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth: Fulfilling [...]

Hardworking Roses: abundance and generosity multiply like rose petals

Janet with a sampling of Daniel’s Hard-working Roses
You’ll recall I recieved two dozen roses this Valentine’s Day. As it turns out, both bouquets were from one man, my sweetheart of yore, my dear-hearted friend of now, Daniel Holland, of Lake County in Northern California.
As it turns out, Daniel ordered one dozen roses and Fortune [...]

Love is a Place: Sister’s Ashes Find Natural Great Peace on Land She Roamed as a Girl

love is a place
by e e cummings
love is a place
& through this place of
love move
(with brightness of peace)
all places
yes is a world
& in this world of
yes live
(skilfully curled)
all worlds

Child and Hawk Dream by Judy Tart
Please read my post on Love of Place: “Land Blesses and Embraces Sisters Ashes” by clicking here.

Snowbound: Filling the Feeder (a new poem by Janet Grace Riehl)

A foot of snow atop our bluff: Evergreen Heights, Jersey Township, SW Illinois.

Mother, that which you filled and then emptied,
we fill again as best we can.
Your chair hold us at the wheelhouse hub,
yet a glance windowward unfolds and holds worlds beyond.
This morning’s world insulated in a snowy rug.

Cardinal families flit-flash at the new-fangled feeders
Daddy fills [...]

Blogging Basics 101: Getting Started and Keeping Going

Go to either the Women Writing the West blog or the Independent Authors Guild Blog to read my take on blogging basics.
It’s easy to get started, but it takes passion to stay going. Mission drives your blog to stay the course.
This post on these two blogs for two writing organizations I belong to are adapted [...]

Rubén Martínez “Why We Fall For the Fakes” in L.A. Times illuminates current memoir scandal

“Ironically, our appetite for ‘reality’ fare has created an audience for the phony memoir,” says Rubén Martínez in today’s L.A. Times article “Why we fall for the fakes.” Click here to read the entire, excellent article.

Amazon’s Democratic Jungle: Case study, Wole Soyinka’s new memoir “You Must Set Forth At Dawn” with 5 Amazon comments, dissassembled

First off, let me say I consider that the reader section on the Amazon book product pages are, for the most part, best termed as “comments” rather than “reviews”—which usually would be rather over-stating the case.
Secondly, I am frequently appalled by the casual way in which readers in these comment sections reveal their ignorance, not [...]

Medicine for Memoir Scandals: Truth or Consequences for Margaret Seltzer, aka Margaret B. Jones, and others suffering from genre confusion

Tracking the Fallout of (Another) Literary Fraud By MOTOKO RICH
Click here to read about the author of “Love and Consequences” who confessed she “made up the memoir about her supposed life as a foster child in gang-infested South-Central Los Angeles, the focus turned to her publisher and the news organizations that helped publicize what [...]