Fear Finds Choices! Story Circle Network’s Creative Catalyst post
I just posted a new column for Creative Catalyst on Story Circle Network’s Telling Her Stories. This is the last post in our third cycle exploring the creative process.
I just posted a new column for Creative Catalyst on Story Circle Network’s Telling Her Stories. This is the last post in our third cycle exploring the creative process.
Seventeen years ago (December 1990) I taped and transcribed this conversation with Lynda Caesara when I lived in the Bay Area. I’ve excerpted some portions I thought relevant to the themes of my Riehlife…creating connections through the arts, across cultures, and generations….and my role as catalyst and nexus. It is a snapshot of a stage…
Riehlife turns four years old this month. A lot has happened since August 2006. Here’s the Riehlife report card from January 2008.
Week Two June 8-12 9 Claire Applewhite interviews Janet on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Book Blog where Claire is a contributing writer. Claire’s most recent and fifth release is The Wrong Side of Memphis, a noir mystery novel. Claire and I are both members of the St. Louis Writers Guild. 11 Kendra Bonnet & Matilda…
In 2006 after Sightlines: A Poet’s Diary was published, I gave a series of talks in California, Illinois, and New Mexico. In each talk I included stories, commentary, music, and poetry from Sightlines. I have these talks at readings posted on Riehlife, but checking on them now I find that the transcripts are truncated. You…
Silent auctions can be good fund-raisers for organizations. Here at the Story Circle Network National Memoir Conference in Austin, we’re having one, too. Cleverly, after the rousing keynote address by Nancy Slonim Aronie (who turned out to be my sister in socks), the closing event of the evening was a lovely dessert buffet in the…
Joel Heffner is a man of many projects. One of his really fun ones is a site called “How We Became Writers: This is how we did it.” He’s just posted my story of how I became a writer which includes my poem “Scribbler,” from “Sightlines: A Poet’s Diary.” You can read the entire post…