What! You have never heard of Exeter? At one time it was one of the foremost towns in the western part of Illinois! It had a post office that served the community for miles around. The hotel was patronized by the passengers of the stagecoach line that used the town for a way station. In…
You’ll also enjoy the discussion questions and the interview with Jane at the end of the novel. This is a perfect book club choice, and, in fact, it is this month’s choice for the Women Writing the West Book Club. Click here to go to Jane Kirkpatrick’s website. Click here to go to Jane Kirkpatrick’s…
To read today’s blog book tour stop on Velda Brotherton’s blog, click here. Click here to view book details on Amazon. I’ve tagged the book “intuitive crafting” and started a discussion on that topic there. Here are a few things I love about Donna’s new book “Ethnic Knitting Discovery”: –Clear language –fun and helpful illustrations…
Here is a guest post by Donna Druchanas on the issue of how the craft and art of knitting currently is perceived. In my own art school training at the California College of Arts (and Crafts) I was inculcated with the slogan that “There is no art without craft.” Donna says: I like the term…
In award-winning author Donna Druchunas’ new book “Ethnic Knitting Discovery” just released by Nomad Press she takes knitting to the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, and The Andes. These places represent three different cultural regions for me. How they come together in the book is the sense of how to make and craft more intuitively. For me,…
We have an interview, guestpost, and book excerpt featuring Donna Druchunas new book “Ethnic Knitting Discovery: The Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, and the Andes” coming up on Riehlife. Here’s some background information about Donna’s new book “Ethnic Knitting Discovery.” Donna’s blog tour stop on Riehlife will focus on the idea of craft and art, how knitting…
Bachelor/Bachelorette Scrambles is a recipe for those times when you wish to cacoon in your chrysalis and perhaps there is little in your refrigerator except eggs. For me, this is comfort food. What I love about Bachelor Scrambles is the simplicity…and the texture that comes from scrambling the eggs directly in the iron skillet. You…
“Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.” —Rainer Maria…
It’s a really hot ticket this Friday, September 28, 2007, 7pm, at Book Passage on 51 Tamal Vista Way in Corte Madera, California. Things sizzle at the official book launch celebration for HOT FLASHES 2: more sexy little stories and poems. If you come, you can get your copy signed by many of the writers,…
You can read our interview “Eleven things about Janet Riehl and Erwin A. Thompson” by clicking here. What I liked about how the interview came out was the comparison and contrast for my father and me, our books, and how we write. Here are the eleven questions you can read our answers for. 1. Tell…