In my 60th year, I set out for Africa, the continent that transformed my life when I first sojourned there thirty years before. I’d waited half a lifetime to return, and could scarcely believe that the waiting…the exile…was finally over.
Yes! It’s true. I’ll be 60 at the end of December.
Yes! It’s true. Africa did transform […]
I talked to a 6-year old girl after watching TV. She said, “TV sucks my brains out.”
I talked to parents who grew up in the country and small towns. They told me:
1) They’d identified core values they received through their country and small town childhoods.
2)They committed to transferring those values
3) They’d updated these […]
My mother’s father farmed pigs. Courtney Johnston loved his grandkids. As we ran to him, he’d welcome us in his arms with the endearment: “My little runts!”
You have to know that “the runt” is the littlest pig of the litter. And the youngest grandchild was ever his “runt.”
What we do shapes our language.
As descendents of […]
Family reunions were especially big for my father’s father, J. Arthur Thompson.
My brother Gary has taken up the family reunion mantle. He and his wife Patty host an annual family get-together at their lakeside home outside Jacksonville.
Besides the ample good food from the garden, joking around, hearing about the crops, the haying, the bullriding, the […]
Janet Riehl with “Sightlines: A Poet’s Diary”
Marcy Burns has been a “friend of the book” since Sightlines: A Poet’s Diary” came out in 2006. She found it through Dan Poynter’s list, reviewed it, and set about becoming a friend of the book, my work, and me. On my trip to Riverside last winter [click here […]
Velda Brotherton takes us on a tour to New Mexico today in photos…related to a polished third-person memoir of Edna Smith Hiller…told in “Fly With The Mourning Dove” and her wild, fun romance novel just re-published by Authors Guild…”Images in Scarlet.” (All photos courtesy of Velda Brotherton.)
AUTHOR ONLINE BIBLIOGRAGHY
Authors Den
Buy “Images in Scarlet” here… […]
Click here to read Erwin A. Thompson Western Series book review.
Cattle Country and Back Trail: Two Tales from the Thompson Western Series
Erwin A. Thompson
ISBN: 0-595-40228-3
Publisher: iUniverse
$17.95 US
Reviewer: Gordon Randall
Buy on “Cattle Country and Back Trail” on Amazon by clicking here.
Randall begins his review by saying….”Turns out that Cattle Country and Back Trail by Erwin Thompson […]
Bonnye Brown has developed an innovative use of padding in her paintings that fascinated me and gives them dimension. She has an affinity for the world of women as a subject for her art.
Riehlife: Bonnye, tell us about your show at Portfolio Gallery.
Bonnye Brown: I have about seven pieces of artwork in the show […]
Click here to read Riehlife profile on Keith Shepherd.
(All photos courtesy of Bonnye Brown)
Bonnye Brown and Robert Powell in front of Bonnye’s painting “Color Folks.”
Keith Shepard in front of his painting “Jelly’s Last Jam.”
Keith Shepard, Bonnye Brown, Anthony High, and Ed Hogan (not pictured).
I’m not yet trained to drink coffee, eat icecream, and meals out on my nearby shopping street in the Central West End.
City life, cafe life eludes me.
I mostly still entertain at home…including entertaining myself.
You’ve seen those little tykes in grocery stores with their tiny carts and the tall flags that say, “Shopper in training”? Well, […]
