Archive for June, 2010
Blog-of-the-Month: My country ’tis of thee. Patriotism. What’s yours?
What does patriotism look like? Is it “Love it or leave it”? or: “My country right or wrong.” or “My country both right and wrong.” Or…? How do we love our country? How do we make our country reflect our vision of what we’d like democracy to be? Lift up your voices. I look forward [...]
Bragging Rights: “Sightlines” Kudos
Dear Riehlife Villagers, You know how you work forever just because, and then all of a sudden the world knows you and and your work are really cooking? That’s what’s happened to me. Here’s a sampling.–Janet ________________ * Hey! SF Book Festival just awarded an honorable mention to our audio book “Sightlines: A Family Love [...]
Story Poems Conference Presentations
At the Story Circle Network Conference “Writing from the Heart V” in Austin, Texas presented a workshop “Story Poems: A Tool for Writing Our Stories.” At the Missouri Writers Guild Conference I presented a variation called: “Prose? Poetry? Who knows?” I enjoy exploring the line between the two genres. We toggle back and forth and [...]
Postcards from Greece: Surprise is best
HAPPY SURPRISES I made a deal with our tour leader: “If I’m not there for an outing, don’t wait longer than 10 minutes. I will never not be okay. There’s no trouble I can get into that I can’t get out of. I will never be late for a ferry, yacht, bus, or plane. Rest [...]
Pop’s Star Turn: Happy Father’s Day!
The Alton Telegrah, our local paper, interviewed Pop and I for a Father’s Day article: “A legacy of words: Father and daughter collaborate on projects.” Quite to our surprise, it made the front page. Both the writer Kathie Bassett and photographer Margie Barnes did a stellar job. I was honored that Kathie chose my poem [...]
Father’s Day Spirit In Search of Lost Daughter
Karim Khan, our man from Pakistan, honors father Michael Bradbury in an interview about his four-year search for his missing daughter Laura. In October 1984 Laura, 3 1/2 years old, was kidnapped from a remote campground. What happens after that is recounted in Michael Bradbury’s book Laura Ann Bradbury Missing: A Father’s Search (Virtualbookworm.com Publishing, [...]
Daddy ‘n Me & Family Matters Archives on Riehlife
Early on my category of “Daddy ‘n Me” held stories by and about my father Erwin A. Thompson. I know he has many fans out there. For Fathers Day our blog of the month topic is, naturally fathers. Check out the “Daddy ‘n Me” archive to read, read, read to your heart’s content about the [...]
Greek Economics: Report from the Feet
Home-grown Greeks? Alice Trego asked: Were you able to meet home-grown Greeks? Did you manage to gain insight into their way of living? Dear Alice, This was the first package tour I’ve ever taken. It is darn hard to meet an ordinary Greek. Luckily, I carved out time for ramblings and small adventures amidst the [...]
“Sightlines” wins honorable mention at San Franciso Book Award Festival!
Hey! SF Book Festival just awarded an honorable mention to “Sightlines: A Family Love Story in Poetry & Music” in the audio/spoken word category!
“I remember Dad,” by Maryanne Raphael
Maryanne Raphael has appeared before on Riehlife. Today she contributes to Riehlife’s Blog-of-the-Month as we celebrate All-Father’s-Day-Month. –Janet ________________ I remember Dad by Maryanne Raphael One of my favorite memories of my father was the autumn when I was 15 and living with my parents and five brothers and four sisters in the little town [...]
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