Silton Mosaic Classes
See Karen Silton’s new Winter 2010 mosaic classes schedule on her website.
See Karen Silton’s new Winter 2010 mosaic classes schedule on her website.
If you have been longing for a trip to Paris, here are three new films that feature the City of Love: “An Education,” “Coco Before Channel,” and “Paris.” Two of the films, “An Education” and “Coco Before Channel” are period pieces dealing with the confines of class and gender. In all three films, Paris is…
Womens Memoir is running a 2-part series Stephanie Farrow and I have written on the topic “Who Owns the Story?” We’re exploring issues of family story and memoir. There are several fun writing prompts at the end of each post.
STL Actors Studio stages John Kolvenbach’s “Love Song” in its LOVE & HONOR season. It’s a play replete in layers as it examines love: within ourselves, couples, families, and the Platonic ideal of love that lives inside us. The Actors Studio is in my neighborhood so I could walk there and back. A genuine pleasure…
Today, had my mother lived past May 2006, she would have been 94 years old, the same age as my father is now. She taught both inside and outside the classroom. This December 2007 post from the Riehlife archives shares her teaching philosophy.
In 1992 Severn Suzuki of Canada addressed the United Nations on behalf of E.C.O. the Environmental Children’s Organization. Vanessa Suttie, Morgan Geisler, Michelle Quigg and Severn traveled 5,000 miles to implore the United Nations for change. Her voice is strong and eloquent. Here’s the original link. The Daily Challenge, the official blog for Do-Gooders, has…
Ron Gregory organized a marvelous evening. I, as usual in polarized racial St. Louis (goodness!), was pretty much the only white folk there. But, luckily, I feel comfortable. After five years in Africa surrounded by Africans, this is no novelty. Came with a friend. Sat at mostly an all-woman table…really nice woman. Mostly boomers. For…