Archive for March, 2009
Abraham Lincoln Radio Show Features Erwin Thompson’s Stories & Music
Sinta Seiber-Lane interviewed Daddy for an WUIS radio program on Lincoln. Guests besides my father Erwin A. Thompson included Chris Vallillo and Todd Cranson..
Susan Tweit’s new book “Walking Nature Home”: It Takes a Village to Create a Book–and to Sustain Life
Susan Tweit’s newest book “Walking Nature Home” invites us as readers to lope along the field of a life shaped by challenge and close looking at nature. Her book contains good guidance lessening the need to control and learning to let go more. Her insights into ways to view chronic illness, talk about it, and [...]
Recovering the Self: new magazine edited by Ernest Dempsey, published by Loving Healing Press
Ernest Dempsey is starting a new magazine called Recovering the Self, on self-help/growth/development. It will be published by the Loving Healing Press and will include articles, essays, stories (both fictional and true), journal entries, book reviews, short plays, interviews – virtually anything on the theme of healing/recovering from a trauma, setback, or loss. Feel [...]
African Memories by Mary Trimble
Mary Trimble has two outstanding remembrances of Africa on her blog.
Riehlife Clip on Author Airwaves
Our 10-minutes audio book clip is on Victor Volkman’s “Author Airwaves.”
Miss Fannie Belle’s Sizzling One-Woman Show “Ladies of the Blues”
Once again, this Saturday, March 28, 2009 at 7:30pm at SIUE, in the Abbot Auditorium, Miss Fannie Belle Lebby will perform her sizzling one woman show “Ladies of the Blues.”
Woodie Award nominee Miss Fannie Belle Lebby’s one woman show, “Ladies of the Blues”, including portrayals of blues artist/jazz singer Alberta Hunter and comedienne Moms Mabley. [...]
Steve Harvey Rocks Chaifetz Arena in St. Louis
Not my usual Saturday night, oh no! It was as if I’d crossed the border into another country. I was so clueless that I’d never even heard of Steve Harvey before, one of the Kings of Comedy. In 2000 Spike Lee filmed the comedy routines of Steve Harvey, D.L. Hughley, Cedric the Entertainer, and Bernie [...]
Rod McClaren’s New Blog Village Rainbow
Check out Rod McClaren’s new blog “Village Rainbow.” Show him some love and tell him what you’d like to know about that village rainbow and its village wisdom for the 21st century.
Rod is a hard-working development chief living at Busua Beach in Ghana. Thus, he is more commonly addressed affectionately by his honorary chief’s title [...]
Class Lessons from Childhood Shape Me Today
My feeling about class are complicated. I grew up in an ambiguous class environment. All three of us kids were raised to work…and work hard…on our big gardens…on wide-flung family construction projects…on our music, and homework. My respite was walking in the woods and reading. We got good grades. My sister became a world class [...]
The History of Reading, Mine (Art reflects culture? Yes.)
Last night at Left Bank Books (since 1969 St. Louis’ most famous and stable independent book store…blessedly in my neighborhood) Meg Wolitzer gave us an engaging look into her world view, writing process, and the rich language of The Ten-Year Nap which begins: “ALL AROUND THE COUNTRY, the women were waking up…” You can read [...]
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