Calculate Gas Prices for Summer Travels!

Riehlife contributor Judy Tart sends this gas calculator from an AAA website. It allows you to calculate gas prices for a trip anywhere in the US, but only calculates between large cities. It does help compare between specific models of cars, which is very informative.
Judy calculated the gas cost for a round trip from [...]

Walk Score…fight rising gas prices…Walk!

My friend Judy Tart (woman of wide-ranging intelligence and heart) has appeared on Riehlife several times in the Village Commons category. She is, in effect, one of the contributors to the Riehlife Blog-Magazine.
Today she writes about a site that gives you a WALK SCORE.
“You enter your address (or where you are thinking of moving), [...]

Lester Mondale, noted humanist, circles of inspiration…from Missouri to the Galaxy

R. Lester Mondale
(May 28, 1904 to August 19, 2003)
“I feel most truly myself,
And at home in a universe of
Living things and
Galaxy-strewn skies
About which the half
Has never been told
And, perhaps,
Never will be told.”
Lester Mondale, a man with big vision, lived a big-hearted life. Father of Karen Mondale (read poem “He would tell you he never was [...]

Nashville!

A LONG DRIVE IN THE COUNTRY
It’s a pretty drive from St. Louis to Nashville (routes 64/57/24) that takes around 5.5 hours and crosses three rivers (Mississippi, Ohio, and Tennessee) and passes by many gorgeous large lakes (Rend/Egypt/Barkley) where I wanted to just stop and camp. The routes down are so aesthetically constructed without billboards and [...]

All Mothers Day—for mothers and others—the truth of interconnection

Happy ALL MOTHERS DAY, you mothers and others.
This is a good day to recognize the truth of Tibetan Buddhism: that every being was at one time my own mother…your own mother. Hey! that means you were mine and I was yours.
Taking it into present time….you are mine and I am yours. We nurture, cultivate, and [...]

VE Day: 1945—Edward R. Murrow reporting

The biggest throw-your-hat-up-in-the-air news on May 8, 1945 was VICTORY IN EUROPE – GERMANY SURRENDERS!

Click here to go to a site where you can hear a live report from Edward R. Murrow of CBS news standing in Piccadilly Circus in London”amidst a crowd of jubilant Britains celebrating the end of the war”.

Go to CBC News [...]

Blog Duet: Curating the Examined Life

Crazy Ali Poet of Turkey Photo by Marcy Burns
An unexamined life is not worth living. —Socrates
An examined life is worth curating. —Janet Riehl
Like a museum curator chooses what to put in the exhibit and where to put it, we all choose where and when and with whom to place the events that make up our [...]

Moyers & Wright: Beyond the Soundbite

I left The Space (see post below) to rush home through our big thunder and lightening storm…headed for Bill Moyers’ Journal on PBS…featuring an interview with Reverend Jeremiah Wright and looking for insights into… Black Churches, Black Theology and American History
James H. Cone’s quotation set the tone of Rev. Wright’s conversation with Moyers:
Black churches [...]

NYC Swap-O-Rama: Reuse & Create! Recycle used clothes! Clean Out Your Closets! April 27th

“There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.” —Gandhi
Wendy Tremayne, mother of the Swap-O-Rama, based in NYC, a brilliant art from recycled materials project, tells us the next Swap-O-Rama has arrived. In between Swap-O-Rama’s she’s been hosting a weekly fabric art party where fabric, friends and fun come together. [...]

Earth Day Poetry link from a 9-year-old blogger in Buenos Aires

Milou, a 9 year old student from Buenos Aires, put up this blog as a place to share poems for e World Poetry Day (March 21st). On the blog “students, kids and poets, writers and artists from all over the world post a contribution for Earth Day.”
Click here to see what they posted to honor [...]