As the last post in Women’s MemoirWomen of Inspiration s Women’s History Month question of what women inspire us, I wrote about the Women of Inspiration in my life. It honors eight women who give me hope in becoming the kind of old woman I want to be. All six are in their 80’s and 90’s.
Scoot on over to Womens Memoirs and find out more about these and how you might honor people who’ve made a difference in your life.
Debbie Jordan’s The World I Imagine: A creative manual for ending poverty and building peace is a collection of 47 essays originating in the column she writes for the Arizona City Independent Edition. We can find solutions to pressing social issues through community involvement and volunteerism. We’ve all experienced random acts of kindness. I love…
Denien Robbins or Author Exposure reviewed The Spirit of a Woman: Stories to Empower and Inspire edited by Terry Laszlo-Gopadze and published by Santa Monica Press. Robbins’ review begins: “Most of us have known at least one incredible woman in our lives. She is the one with an unlimited supply of inner strength and determination…
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Mary Trimble has two outstanding remembrances of Africa on her blog.
Poem in Your Pocket Day. Carry a poem to share with co-workers, family, and friends on April 29, 2010. Here’s Ernie Wormwood’s choice.–JGR ____________ If You Could Write One Great Poem What Would You Want It To Be About by Robert Pinsky (Asked of four student poets at the Illinois Schools for the Deaf and…
Nice “atta girl” from Bobbi Linkemer of Writing a Nonfiction Book Riehl Life, founded by artist, writer, poet, and musician Janet Grace Riehl, defies description. It is just plain beautiful, international in flavor, and mind stretching. You just have to go there to understand what I mean. Janet has enough talent for 20 people and…
Very inspiring post. Thanks for introducing to these wonderful women.
Please add you name to this list, Janet. Thanks for being an inspiration in my life!
Thanks, Selena. That’s heartening. I believe we all not only have the capacity to inspire, but do inspire. One of my mottoes is that we cannot know the good we do one another. That, I suppose is why random acts of kindness are so important.
Janet Riehl