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Of Eagles & Crows. A conversation between Judith Stanton & Charlotte Hussey
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January 21, 2012 • Category: Stone Soup
This post is dedicated to my Mother, Ruth Thompson, a World-Class Birder. Here at my father’s atop the bluffs above the River Road the eagles get up-close-and-personal. Sometimes they fly so close above my windshield as I climb our big hill to the Big Brown House that I feel I should duck. Our area is [...]
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- Questions? Some have answers, and some don’t.
- “On the New Year,” a poem of thanks from Ernest Dempsey
- “Christmas in My Mind,” by Ernest Dempsey. Chatting across the oceans
- Christmas Memories: Gifts of the Heart
- “Play that GREY EAGLE,” by Erwin A. Thompson
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Award the Women of Inspiration in Your Life
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St. Louis Centennial Tribute to Tennessee Williams: There are benefits!
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Prose? Poetry? Who knows?
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Alton Senior High School Poetry Grant: We can do it.
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Judging the Poetry Out Loud Regional Contest–how I got through it
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Family Stories Our Way: In Poetry, Prose, and Music
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Christmas Memories: Gifts of the Heart
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I’m wearing my flamingo Airstream trailer pajamas as I write this. They’re aqua with puff of snow, red scarves flying from the pink flamingo’s while lights outline the Airstream’s door and windows. When I was a girl, our Christmas–like everything else in our family life–was do-it-ourselves from tree to treats to gifts. We cut our [...]
- “Play that GREY EAGLE,” by Erwin A. Thompson
- Creative Parenting: “Another Way of Seeing,” by Khadijah Lacina. Trash? Look again.
- Creative Parenting: “Poverty as Creative Catalyst,” by Khadijah Lacina
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Janet Grace Riehl is an award-winning author and blogger...reviewer, contest judge, and conference presenter...living in St. Louis, Missouri. Want more?
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