The entire extended family is traveling in a van to a family reunion. It’s sort of a womb zoom. “What kind of fabric are the shoes made of?” I asked my great niece as she drew a picture of a princess. In creating a world we need to imagine the specifics. What is your world?…
Oct. 10, 2009 versatile artist Edna J. Patterson-Petty was one of 13 inductees into the SIUE Hall of Fame. The plaque celebrating her award is housed in the Peck building on the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville campus. You can see more of Edna’s photos on Flickr. These are the qualifications for this prestigious award: Southern…
The Hoosier Kernel, the newsletter of the Indiana Nut Growers Association, edited by J.R. McKenna (December 2009, volume 56, number 4) featured my father’s poem “Progress.” See page 8. The Indiana Nut Growers Association is part of the Northern Nut Growers Association. The placement of one of my father’s poems is quite appropriate since his…
When Victor Volkman hosted me on Authors Airwaves, he said that he was proud to feature a special podcast “Sightlines: A Family Love Story in Poetry and Music” by Janet Riehl. Her book “Sightlines: A Poet’s Diary” is Janet’s family love story, a remembrance narrated in story poems that traverses the boundaries of life and…
I know you’ll enjoy Maggie Claire’s description of her writing process for “As If It Didn’t Happen.” What I love best about her process is the interaction between writing and music. –JGR ____________________ Have you ever peered into the water and seen yourself looking back? Often, the person looking back at me looks familiar but…
The second issue of Recovering the Self: A Journal of Hope and Healing (Vol. II, No.1) (Paperback) is now for sale on Amazon. Read about the launch of “Recovering the Self” on a previous Riehlife post.
JANET RIEHL produced her father’s newest poetry book: Worth Remembering: The Poetry of Our Heritage. ERWIN A. THOMPSON’S 360 page book received a Gold Medal at the 2009 Branson Stars and Flag book awards during Veterans Homecoming Week. This family and friends poetry anthology gives readers a slice of living history during the past 100…
Yvonne Perry, owner of Writers in the Sky just wrote to tell me that the summer podcast during my blog tour“Sightlines: A Family Love Story in Poetry and Music” is the most listened to (81 times) on the list of WITS podcasts! Hear, hear!
CATHERINE RANKOVIC will be teaching the 3-credit evening course, Introduction to Creative Writing, in Washington University’s University College in Spring 2010, Wednesday 6-8:30 PM. Try out poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Class begins January 20, 2010. 50 percent tuition discount for age 60 and over. To register online visit: http://ucollege.wustl.edu.
The End of Overeating, by David Kessler is a fascinating but horrifying story of modern food and why we can’t stop eating it. Built into our brains is a quest for rare but needed food elements–fat, sugar, and salt. Modern industrial food production has learned how to pile these into ever-more enticing offerings. Obesity began…