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How Old-Time Square Dancing Shaped My Father’s Life—Happy 92nd birthday, Pop!
On his 92nd birthday, in his own words, my father Erwin A. Thompson, tells the power of dancing and music in his life…There’ll be one coming up tomorrow night for his birthday party if you want to come by.–JGR Great-aunt Mim’s Amati violin My life before I discovered square dancing I was born in Schuyler…
Writers in the Sky February Newsletter presents Riehl’s poem “Window Frame” from “Sightlines: A Poet’s Diary”
Yvonne Perry of Writers in the Sky Creative Writing Services asked me to send her a poem for her February newsletter. Click here to read the entire newsletter. I sent an excerpt from WINDOW FRAME originally published in “Sightlines: A Poet’s Diary” and dedicated to my mother Ruth Evelyn Johnston Thompson (January 4, 1916-May 1,…
Holidays with Pop atop the Snowy Bluffs
Quiet, quiet Christmas Eve Day morning as the birds wake up on top of our bluffs above the Mississippi. They flitter and twitter around the Ruth E. Thompson memorial bird feeders. A nod to one of my mother’s most passionate pass times. Snow, snow, snow. Even the river is frozen. We used to skate on…
“The Second Mile,” Erwin A. Thompson’s novel offers an intimate look at the cost of war and then…the return home, without benefit of hero’s welcome
“Going the second mile” was a catch-phrase in our family, and comes from the Bible, Matthew 5:4 41 “Whoever forces you to go one mile, go with him two.” [A Roman official could require any subject of the Roman empire to bear a burden, or carry a load for one mile.] “Going the second mile”…
Village Wisdom: Anchors Series on Riehlife
“Anchors” refers to the people in the Melville community that were the heart of it as my father Erwin A. Thompson grew up and as he listened to the stories of older generations of the legends that were our heritage. Here is a showcase of what Pop likes to call the “anchors” of the community…
Riehl’s story “Driving Lessons” is Editor’s Choice this week at Traveler’s Tales
This spring my story “Driving Lessons” won Bronze Award for Family Travel in the First Annual Solas Awards sponsored by Travelers Tales. If you missed “Driving Lessons” the first time, read it on the Travelers Tale site by clicking here for “Janet Riehl’s Flying Carpet Tales”. Their tagline for the story is “The lessons of…