Announcements 
Dr. Curt Madison Named U Maine Director of Distance Education(0)
March 16, 2010
Dr. Curt Madison, 60, will become the new director of distance education for the University of Maine system. He’ll move to that position from Fairbanks, where he has led distance education at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks since 2002.
Read more about Dr. Madison’s career in the Kennebec Journal: “UMaine’s new distance-learning chief knows remote”. [...]
St. Paddy’s Blog Chain
Yvonne Perry, owner of Writers in the Sky Creative Writing Services http://writersinthesky.com, has master-minded a blog chain for St. Patrick’s Day March 11 through 17 and Riehlife is one link in the chain. Sort of like a chain letter but with more variety.
“What is a Blog Chain?” Yvonne says, A blog chain [...]
Collaboration: Trust Floats the Boat
Join us on Story Circle Network’s Telling Her Stories as Stephanie Farrow and I continue to discuss the essentials of collaboration in our Creative Catalyst column. This month? Without trust, collaboration ain’t gonna work.
Book Women–Happy International Women’s Day
Happy International Women’s Day. Here are a few favorite books by women:
* “The Little School.” by Argentinian writer Alicia Partnoy.
* “The Colour of the Moon” by the Greek author Alkouni Papadaki.
* “Once in a Promised Land’ by Jordanian author Laila Halaby.
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More in this category:
- “Me and Orson Wells”: Reel Inspiration review by Robin Farmer
- National Poetry Month Poster 2010
- Contests sponsored by STL Poetry Society (attention high school students)
- Altered Fabric Books
- “Wonder,” art by Roshani at Marbles Yoga Sudio & Art Gallery, STL
- Matthew Freeman’s Poetry @ RAC/STL: “Darkness Never Far”
- Earn Extra Income Freelance Writing for the Web: Tips by Ernest Dempsey
- Chagdud Yangsi: Incarnaton of Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche
- His Holiness the Dalai Lama Blesses Reporters with Snow
- An Heir to the Black Mountain Poets @ Observable Readings STL
- American Leaders, Take a Stand: Op-Ed in Iowa Press-Citizen.com
- Inspired Art: Drawing Voices Together (America SCORES St.Louis–Call-for-artists)
- Art Submissions for JAAMA’s Soulard Art Market Show for Black History Month (STL)
- Most Inspiring Films of 2009…Vote @ www.reelinspiration.blogspot.com
- “The Little Book of Meditation: A Guide to Stress-Free Living,” by Marina C. Bear Ph.D.
- Zuka Arts Guild Exhibit at Vaughn Cultural Center
- St. Louis Art Museum Groundbreaking Ceremony
- Litmocracy’s Unpublished Book Contest
- Leverage Your Blog on Women’s Memoirs
- “Love Song” by John Kolvenbach at STL Actors Studio
- “A Single Man,” reviewed by Reel Inspiration
- The Poets Speak: “Blase,” by Ernest Dempsey
- Creativity in Education (TED) Sir Ken Robinson
- “Leaden Skies,” continues Ann Parker’s Silver Rush Mystery Series
- Brazilian Music in St. Louis
- “Wife of the Gods,” a Ghanaian Mystery
- Trimble’s “Tenderfoot”…new release
- Silton Mosaic Classes
- Remembering Mother on Her Birthday
- Good News from Pakistan by Karim Khan
- “Burleycue” seeking poems, fiction, essays, and visual art!
- Reel Inspiration reviews three Parisian-inspired movies
- Art Showcase: pictures and stories tell life lessons
- Artist Edna J. Patterson-Petty inducted in the SIUE hall of fame
- Thompson’s poem “Progress” featured in The Hoosier Kernel
- Riehl’s spoken word on Authors Airwaves
- Recovering the Self: A Journal of Hope & Healing
- Thompson’s “Worth Remembering” Melds History & Family
- Sightlines podcast on Writers in the Sky–top listeners
- Rankovic Brings Creative Writing to Life
- Sightings @ Squaw Creek
- Gratitude Short List for Thanksgiving
- Lillian Sizemore, Mosaic Artist
- Classic Car Restoration Video Starring Nathan Newberry
- Author Dempsey Video Interview
- Stairs as Piano Keyboard? A Social Experiment
- Lonnie Powell Exhibit Opens at Portfolio Gallery in STL
- Nonfiction Writers: November Writing Month
- Poet Afzal Shauq
- Riehl’s community art honored on Shadows on Stone
- Riehlife gets an “atta girl” from Bobbi Linkemer
- Buddha in a Cup of Tea–Vince Horn & Kenneth Cohen
- Powerful Young Voice Silences the U.N. for Five Minutes
- Writing Process Tips by Damaria Senne
- Success Your Way vs. O.P.E. (Other People’s Expectations)
- Story Circle Network’s Memoir Conference
- The Way Back from Summer
- “Worth Remembering: The Poetry of Our Heritage,” edited by Erwin A. Thompson
- Jacoby Art Center Celebrates 5th Anniversary in Style…Alton Writers Guild Adds Panache
- President Barack Obama Mourns Ted Kennedy’s Death
- “Mama’s Suitcase” Slide Show by Carol Cole Lewis
- Charles A. Bibbs at Portfolio Gallery & Education Center
- “How to Make and Produce and Audio Book”
- Creative Catalyst: Fie on Fear! Success & Failure: Two Sides of a Coin
- Fear Finds Choices! Story Circle Network’s Creative Catalyst post
- Lit Lovers hosts Sightlines blog post, reader’s guide…and, a recipe for scrapple!
- Sightlines Blog Tour Week 5 & Featured Video: Stages 4 (legal) & 5 (production)
- Sightlines Blog Tour Week 4 & Featured Video: Stages 2 (editing) & 3 (technical)
- Sightlines Blog Tour Week 3 & Featured Video. Stage 1: Recording your audiobook.
- Sightlines Blog Tour Week Two & Featured Video; Studio Tour & Working Process
- Sightlines Blog Tour, Week 1 & Featured Video; Nashville Launch Dinner Send-off
- TCM’s Ernest Dempsey review of “Sightlines: A Poet’s Diary”
- Creative Catalyst: “Cycles: The Rhythm Method” April post Telling HerStories (The Broad View)
- Recovering the Self: new magazine edited by Ernest Dempsey, published by Loving Healing Press
- African Memories by Mary Trimble
- Riehlife Clip on Author Airwaves
- Rod McClaren’s New Blog Village Rainbow
- Author Shout Out: Come hear me read “The Book Just Loved Me.”
- CREATIVE CYCLES: BALANCING ACT…MarchTelling HerStories post up
- St. Louis Black Rep’s Rendition of: “A Song for Coretta” by Pearl Cleage at Grandel Theatre through March 15, 2009
- His Holiness Dalai Lama’s message for Losar, the Tibetan New Year
- Creative Cycles: Keynote…Story Circle Network Blog: “Telling HerStories–The Broad View”
- St. Louis: Largest African American Ball in City’s History
- “Yes We Can,” an inaugural poem by Marvin Bell
- Happy, Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
- “Working from Source in Your Creative Practice”–new Creative Catalyst Post on Telling HerStories Story Circle Network blog
- Observable Readings: Quincy Troupe & Patrick Rosal hit it out of the park!…But, why so quiet?
- Graduate Creative Nonfiction Workshop This Summer at UMSL
- Washington University Summer Writers Institute By Catherine Rankovic
- Creative Practice Dialogue between Alethea Eason & Janet Riehl
- Building a Creative Practice: Not for Wimps! Now on Telling HerStories: Taking the Broad View
- Alton Sesquicenntenial. We’re playing, folks!
- “The Spirit of a Woman” anthology released…and launched with Women’s Spirit website
- Audiobook “Sightlines: A Family Love Story in Poetry and Music” update: mechanical licensing completed
- Journeywoman Shares 55 Travel Secrets…including 2 Riehlife tips
- Where in the World is Janet? Re-design Time. Join the Riehlife Community Here.
- Twittering away…9 months of microblogging…in 140 characters or less
- Learn the Music of Language to Float in Communal Space
- Robson Reviews Riehl’s “Sightlines: A Poet’s Diary”…(from Resident Media Pundit)
- Homecoming Be-Gratitudes: Let Me Count the Ways—Review, Recognition, Friendship, Projects
- Riehlife on African Holiday
- Pig Farmer Kin Sayings
- “Sightlines” graces Unitarian book group
- Thompson’s Western Tales Reviewed on Writers In the Sky
- Black America? Tune-in to CNN
- Riehl’s Writer Story on “How We Became Writers”
- The Big Write…for KIDS!…Enter now.
- TLC’s “The Singing Office” features my young friend Annemieke Marie Farrow in “Animal Shelter vs. School Bus Drivers”
- Riehl’s poetry & music on www.blogtalkradio.com/AuthorsRead
- How to Pack (truth and humor)
- Shared Story—Martin Prechtel: Remembered through being in the story together
- Riehl’s writing life revealed in Story Circle Network National e-letter
- Meeting Anais Nin by Maryanne Raphael
- J.K. Rowling on the benefits of failure…& how empathy and imagination re-builds worlds
- Riehlife Boosts 100 Thing Challenge…and, gosh, the Chicago Tribune noticed!
- JUNETEENTH: Dick Gregory speaks on “The Game” at the Starlight Room on Broadway in North St. Louis
- Eugene B. Redmond, poet laureate of East St. Louis, master teacher
- Folk Wisdom from N Y Times! Beat the economy with homemade hash and backyard gardens.
- Cultural Stereotypes challenged in N Y Times stories
- Mara Purl’s many talents come home
- On this day in history….a Spanish painter is born, my parents are married, and WW II reaches its climax
- Twitter Tips from Nancy Marmolejo, “The CEO of Sizzibility,™” Viva Visability!
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