Riehlife recieves the Superior Scribble Award

Matilda Butler and Kendra Bonnett’s blog supports women writing their memoirs. They just gave me a wonderful compliment by announcing that they have chosen Riehlife as one of their five top picks for the Superior Scribbler Award.
Here’s how they described Riehlife:
Janet Riehl — an artist in the best and broadest [...]

Riehlife Blog Posts: The Ones that Got Away…Readings, Art Museums, Plays, Movies, Products…and even (ahem!) Ideas

Recently I cleared out my piles on the credenza in my study. I found lots of scraps of paper noting ideas to blog about. Here, then, are “the ones that got away.” All of these blog-fish are pretty small, but some are beautifully striped.
Ideas
1) Pop as “great connector”
2) Soil & Soul (poem fragment)–Soil of [...]

Riehlife off to Ghana on African Holiday…back in 2009

Between December 6th to January 7, Riehlife goes on holiday as Janet travels to Ghana, a place she lived and worked for several years in the 1970s. This trip will be far more simple than her August trip to Southern Africa.
Because I’ll only be staying in two locations, I’ll be taking a few [...]

Riehlife on African Holiday

Between August 4th to August 26th, Riehlife travels to Southern Africa—South Africa and Botswana.

I’ve decided not to take too many gadgets, so I’ll be leaving my laptop and cellphone at home. I’ll be in erratic computer contact, so I cannot say if I’ll be able to update Riehlife while I’m gone or not. Maybe [...]

Blogged.com Editorial Review Rates Riehlife GREAT!

I received a nice surprise note from Amy Liu of Blogged.com’s editorial department who told me that Riehlife ranked 189th out of 3,562 blogs on books…and received an 8.0 (GREAT) score out of a possible 10 (EXCELLENT) when the Blogged.com editors recently reviewed my blog in the entertainment/Books category of Blogged.com.

Amy says:
This is quite an [...]

Tweit & Riehl begin “Blog Duet”: How do we nurture ourselves and still nurture the world?

Susan Tweit, began our blog duet yesterday,Tuesday, February 12, 2008, with her post on “Community of the Land,” titled “Finding your balance: outward and inward.”

Susan J. Tweit telling plant stories in Colorado

Janet Riehl performs “Big Butts Are Beautiful”
As a journalist, memoirist, blogger, and speaker I’ve known Susan through two organizations: Women Writing the West and [...]

Riehlife Writing Idea: Sensory Scan as Memory Prompt

When Jake Lorfing and I were talking yesterday about some long ago work I felt would be worthy writing material, he said, “But I don’t remember anything; it’s too long ago.”
I suggested he do a Sensory Scan. You can do this, too.
1) Take each sense in turn: sight, sound, taste, touch, smell.
2) Scan each sense. [...]

“Change Therapy” hosts progressive dinner party-style blog carnival…Riehlife helps Isabella Mori pass the appetizers.

If you like blog carnivals, you’ll love visiting Isabella Mori’s “Change Therapy” site where she’s serving the appetizers for a progressive dinnerparty-style Soup to Nuts blog carnival.
One of my blog postings on my father’s longevity and youthful outlook secrets is one of the appetizer dishes she is serving up. I think you’ll find this [...]

Riehlife Report Card Year One

Janet seated on Copper, our family American Bred Saddle Horse, riding tall at 15 hands
My web log “Riehl Life: Village Wisdom for the 21st Century” has grown into my vision of it more fully over the course of the year. I run it as a magazine format, in which you hear several voices, and multiple [...]

Happy First Birthday, Riehlife! Celebrating a reprise of “Write Pen! Connecting to Our Wisdom Selves”

I just went back in my blog archives to find out…when did I really start blogging? Here’s what I dredged up from the deep: