Archive for October, 2010
13 Tips for Longevity and Health: “A tough old bird shows us how to fly.”
Here comes another present for my father’s 95th birthday November 9, 2010. My article “Erwin A. Thompson: A tough old bird shows us how to fly” has just come out under the “Inspiration” category in October’s “Recovering The Self:A Journal of Hope & Healing” Volume II, Number 4. Victor R. Volkman is the publisher for [...]
Maine E-Learning 101 with Dr. Curt Madison
Dr. Curt Madison, the new director of distance learning for the University of Maine System, says E-learning has the potential to open the walls of the classroom to a worldwide group of learners.
“Seven Days in Haiti,” film-in-the-making by Phillip Johnson
WHAT: Meet and Greet St. Louis writer and filmmaker Phillip Johnson WHERE: Portfolio Gallery & Education Center 3514 Delmar St. Louis, MO Telephone: (314) 814-0141 WHEN: Friday, Nov.12th, 5:30 -7:00 p.m. TOPIC: Phillip’s upcoming trip to Haiti to begin production of his film “Seven Days in Haiti”. The film will look at the upcoming Presidential [...]
“Visions” 2010 art exhibit at Portfolio Gallery and Education Center
Portfolio Gallery and Education Center and the artists who show there are frequently featured on Riehlife. To access more posts about Portfolio Gallery visit the Riehlife Archive. Portfolio’s “Visions 2010″ is a group show featuring: Dean Mitchell, Lonnie Powell, Charles Bibbs, Dr. Carolyn L. Mazloomi, Nedra Bonds, Keina Davis Elswick and other fine artists. Portfolio [...]
Blog Action Day: Water
It’s Blog Action Day. The theme this year is WATER. My blogging buddy Damaria Senne of South Africa has written an insightful post on her blog Story Pot about water in an African village. I told her that: Your story of the place water plays in the lives of village people all across Africa is [...]
MacArthur Foundation Award Fellow: Shannon Lee Dawdy, anthropologist
For the first time I know a MacArthur Foundation Award fellow. Well, almost–by only two degrees of separation. Shannon Lee Dawdy–daughter of my good writing friend Arletta Dawdy–is now one of the distinguished MacArthur Fellows. Shannon, 43, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. Shannon’s work in “anthropology combined [...]
Guide to Spirit Guides–all you really need to know
In this fourth edition of the classic book Spirit Guides: Companions and Mentors for Your Inner Journey condenses shelves of information into a slim 113 pages. Hal Zina Bennett tells you all you really need to know about spirit guides as players in your inner journey. Hal is the author of over 35 successful books. [...]
Second Mile Award 2010 honors Erwin A. Thompson at 95
My father, Erwin A. Thompson, turns 95 this November 9th. My birthday present to him is to establish an annual Second Mile Award. The holder of the 2010 award receives: –a $500 honorarium, –a certificate designed by my niece, –publication on Riehlife of the nomination essay. The deadline for nomination essays is November 9, 2010–my [...]
Cider Making Family Reunion in the Heartland
Every year for decades our family gathers to make cider in the barn yard on our ancestral press. It’s always the Saturday of Columbus Day weekend. For this reunion I drove my brother’s truck up to Ringhausen’s Orchard where I bought five bushels of mixed cider apples and one bushel of #2 reds. How do [...]
“Carving Time,” by Eden Maxwell
Recently I sent one of my father’s carvings to Eden Maxwell–a blogging buddy who lives in New Mexico. Eden is not only a committed writer, but a writer with profound insight into the creative process. Eden posted “Carving Time” on his blog to acknowledge my father’s critter “I.M.A. Fox”–otherwise known as “Mr. Fox.” There’s a [...]
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