Archive for October, 2008
Dance St. Louis’ Dracula
Freida Wheaton of Salon 53 is a strong supporter of Dance St. Louis (click here to learn more) as both donor and board member. Last spring a table filled with Freida’s friends, had the pleasure of enjoying an evening of dining and performance to raise funds for the organization. So, I was only too [...]
Copper Fire by Suzanne Woods Fisher
Fisher was a contributing editor to Christian Parenting Today magazine. Her work has appeared in many prominent magazines. She has contributed to ten non-fiction books, including Chicken Soup for the Soul: Children with Special Needs. Wife-mother-author Fisher lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and raises puppies for Guide Dogs for the Blind. The best [...]
Small Pleasure: Finding Grace in a Chaotic World
By Justine Toms
Reviewed by The Brussats
Small Pleasures: Finding Grace in a Chaotic World
By Justine Toms
Hampton Roads
Hardcover $18.95
ISBN: 9781571745866
Reviewed by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, authors of “Spirituality & Practice: Resources for the Spiritual Journey.” You can find their work online at www.spiritualityandpractice.com.
Justine Toms is cofounder and managing producer of New Dimensions Media/World Broadcasting Network, [...]
Musical Learning Model by Approximation. In 7 Easy Steps.
Yesterday, after we’d played old-time music for hours at the Alton Sesquicenntential, 12-year-old N. and I came back to the house for a classical music lesson, and worked for 1 1/2 hours more.
Here’s a method I’ve figured out for learning a piece of music by approximation. You can use the same learning method [...]
Blog Action Day: Poverty in the Great Depression. “The Kind of People that We Are”—a poem by Erwin A. Thompson
Blog Action Day is today, with a focus on Poverty. Currently 9,394 Sites with an audience with more than 10,612,112 readers are registered in Blog Action Day 2008. Last year, I participated when bloggers focused on the Environment.
Read my post on how it’s “Easy to be green at the Carelton Hotel in San [...]
Alton Sesquicenntenial. We’re playing, folks!
Pop and I were musicians in public this weekend. We played both days at the Alton Sesquicenntenial. Just so you don’t have to look it up, that’s 150 years, the anniversary of the historic Lincoln-Douglas debates in Alton.
Click here for a schedule of the weekend and more information on the Alton Sesquicenntenial.
On Saturday [...]
“The Spirit of a Woman” anthology released…and launched with Women’s Spirit website
Click here to go to “The Spirit of a Woman” website to read about the newly released book
“The Spirit of a Woman: Intimate Stories to Empower and Inspire” created and introduced by Terry László-Gopadze with 31 storytellers…women writers you’ve read and heard of and some you’ve never met in print. My story “Sliding Glass Door” [...]
Audiobook “Sightlines: A Family Love Story in Poetry and Music” update: mechanical licensing completed
Good news! We’ve completed the mechanical licensing phase for the music used in the upcoming audio book “Sightlines: A Family Love Story in Poetry and Music”. Now, onward into the production phase!
For those interested, the phases in creating and producing your own audiobook are:
1) creative phase: recording, editing, fileswapping, decisionmaking, “notes” back and forth
2) technical [...]
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