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Archive for December, 2008

Riehlife off to Ghana on African Holiday…back in 2009

Between December 6th to January 7, Riehlife goes on holiday as Janet travels to Ghana, a place she lived and worked for several years in the 1970s. This trip will be far more simple than her August trip to Southern Africa. Because I’ll only be staying in two locations, I’ll be taking a few more [...]

Dempsey’s “Two Candles” poetry collection reviewed by Riehlife

Click here to read an earlier Riehlife post relating to Dempsey’s writing process for “Two Candles.” Ernest Dempsey uses the defining image of light as the threading metaphor through his collection of 74 selected poems contained in 84 pages. Light as an archtypal image is the perfect connecting theme as Dempsey’s mind roams classic philosophic [...]

Creative Practice Dialogue between Alethea Eason & Janet Riehl

Alethea Eason commenting on the post “Building a Creative Practice is not for whimps” said: I believe that having regular session to do creative work is essential, but it may not be practical to have this occur every day, especially with a full time job, family, etc. I used to feel I was “failing” because [...]

Building a Creative Practice: Not for Wimps! Now on Telling HerStories: Taking the Broad View

Capricorn Heart = Persistence of the goat My second post for my Creative Catalyst series on Story Circle Network’s “Telling Herstories: The Broad View” is now up. You can access “Building a Creative Practice: Not for Wimps” by clicking here…where you’ll also see the first post, “What is Creativity Anyway?” Also, a third post will [...]