Happy 4th Birthday Riehlife!
Riehlife turns four years old this month. A lot has happened since August 2006.
Here’s the Riehlife report card from January 2008.
Riehlife turns four years old this month. A lot has happened since August 2006.
Here’s the Riehlife report card from January 2008.
To complement Eden Maxwell’s excellent advice today on making rejection work in your creative life, look in Riehlife’s WRITE PEN! archives for more solid advice on using rejection by Nancy Connally, Janet Muirhead Hill…and (the other Janet) myself. My article “Relishing Rejection” was posted on “Eliot, a Literary Blog” as well as www.ezinearticles.com. August 24,…
California-based artist Charles A. Bibbs’ show at Portfolio Gallery and Education Center (3514 Delmar Blvd. 63103, in the Grand Center Art District) is worth blocking out some time to see. I was reminded of R. C. Gorman’s work, the noted Navajo painter. I often saw Gorman’s work when I lived in New Mexico. There is…
Janet Riehl with “Sightlines: A Poet’s Diary” Marcy Burns has been a “friend of the book” since Sightlines: A Poet’s Diary” came out in 2006. She found it through Dan Poynter’s list, reviewed it, and set about becoming a friend of the book, my work, and me. On my trip to Riverside last winter [click…
“Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?” Twittering is like sending a telegraph or writing a haiku. Over time, the messages accrete, and the rhythms of a life become discernable. At least, that’s…
Art Showcase Offers Children Unique Opportunity to Share Lessons Learned Author Yvonne Perry announces an online art and writing showcase and asks children to write a story or create an art piece to showcase life lessons they have learned. Yvonne Perry has opened the lines of communication between parents and children with a online community…
Laurie Wagner Buyer is one of the Western writers who contributed essays to the anthology “Come Back Wolves: Western Writers Welcome the Wolf Home.” One of the reviewers of Comeback Wolves worded it this way: “If you believe that literature has the power to change the world, then you will love Comeback Wolves. It’s beautiful,…