Author: Linda

Novelist, freelance writer and composer in LA.
Books, Grief, Interview, Writing

Linda Schreyer Interviews Mark Liebenow

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Linda Schreyer and Mark Liebenow
Linda Schreyer and Mark Liebenow

Linda Schreyer continues her Writers’ Talk at Studio West podcast series with an insightful interview with naturalist and grief writer Mark Liebenow.

Mark Liebenow is a grief author and naturalist.

“His essays on grief have been published in grief journals like Modern Loss, The Manifest Station, and Open to Hope, as well as in literary journals like River Teeth, Chautauqua, Saint Katherine Review, Antler, and Under the Sun. He is a member of the Refuge in Grief community and coordinates its Grief Café. He writes about grief on his website widowersgrief.blogspot.com, and is finishing up work on his grief memoir.

Liebenow is the author of four books, the most recent being Mountains of Light: Seasons of Reflection in Yosemite, published by the University of Nebraska Press in 2012. His essays, poems, and literary criticism have been published in journals like The Colorado Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Fifth Wednesday Journal, Spoon River Poetry Review, Disquieting Muses Quarterly, Clackamas Literary Review, Crab Orchard Review, and Rain Taxi Review. ” -www.markliebenow.com

His grief blog is widowersgrief.blogspot.com, his Twitter @MarkLiebenow2, and his website is markliebenow.com. Please visit his website for more information.

And of course, enjoy the podcast!

Classes, Seminars, Writing

Slipper Camp- It’s About Time

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Slipper Camp- It’s About Time

Begins: May 20th

Dear Writers,

I’m excited to announce a brand new Slipper Camp. The subject: IT’S ABOUT TIME.

WHAT IS SLIPPER CAMP?

Slipper Camp is a 20 day online writing experience. (10 days of receiving writing prompts; 2 days to write each one.) I call it Slipper Camp because you can stay home and write in your PJ’S and slippers.

You will be asked to write 1,000 words every other day (approx.. 2 pages) on a prompt of your choice and you will send it to me by midnight of the following day.

Slipper Camp starts on May 20. If you sign up, please make sure you have the time to do this. When the 20 days are up, you will have written 20,000 words. No small feat.

After it ends, we will talk (over the phone) about your writing.

HOW TO ENROLL?

Once you’ve accepted this invitation you will receive a PM from me with further instructions.

Class is limited to 10 students so please sign up now if you’re interested. It fills up quickly.

THE TOPIC: IT’S ABOUT TIME

“What time is it?” “How much time will it take?” “I have no time for myself.” “How much time do I have left?”
This Slipper Camp will guide you to write about time, in any way you choose. This can be a great opportunity to say what you’ve been thinking about or longing to say; you can reflect what time means to you. Every day there will be several different prompts to choose from.

What you write will depend on how the prompts hit you.

SLIPPER CAMP

In 2011, I noticed that there were many online Writing Boot Camps – they all ask for writing to be done every day. I decided that pace was too hectic – ergo, Slipper Camp. Geared to our busy lives. A gentler way to get some great writing done over 20 days. I create three unique prompts per day for you to choose from – totaling 30 prompts per Slipper Camp.

Now, over 200 writers later this is my 12th Slipper Camp with brand new prompts.

Tuition is the same as always – $200 ($10/day for 20 days.)

– OPEN TO THE FIRST 10 WRITERS WHO SIGN UP.

Please pass this on, if you like. Slipper Camp makes a great gift for someone else and.. we have gift certificates! (Sign up via https://lindaschreyer.wordpress.com/events/, through Facebook, or email me @lspravina21@gmail.com)

Books

Fire Season by Hollye Dexter

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Ganesh, remover of obstacles stands guard on Hollye Dexter’s deep and searing “Burn Season.” Picked the book up and couldn’t put it down. What a writer. What a journey from ruin to redemption. Congratulations, Hollye! See you at the launch – Barnes and Noble – The Grove – April 25.

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Fire Season by Hollye Dexter

 

family, Tibor Gergely and I

Peaches, Tibor Gergely, and my mother

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The peach orchard where I used to live in Fishkill, New York. Back in the day. B/W painted by dearest Tibor Gergely, legendary children’s book illustrator and honorary member of our family. Watercolor by artist Greta Schreyer, my mother. ‪#‎peace‬ ‪#‎peaches‬ ‪#‎livingmydream‬ ‪#‎honoringthesetwoartists‬ ‪#‎family‬‪#‎missingthem‬

By Greta Schreyer
By Greta Schreyer
By TIbor Gergely
By TIbor Gergely

 

 

 

family, love

Seven Years Ago…

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Seven years ago on April 6 at 1:14 PM, our exquisite Jazz (Jasmine Rue Seelig Sugerman) was born in a bathtub in Bali, delivered into the hands of magnificent Robin Lim, midwife to the babies of the world, one year later the CNN Hero of the Year. (Please see Yayasan Bumi Sehat.) I was honored to be in that bathroom when Jazz was born as Ibu Robin told my son, Evan, to speak to her so his voice would be the first she ever heard. Marcelle, her mama, was luminous with love for her baby. Marcelle’s mother, Miriam Seelig, was chanting Hebrew prayers. Candles were burning. The bathtub was filled with frangipani flowers. Through my tears, I saw the ghosts of my ancestors, lost in the Holocaust, gathered in the corner of the room, welcoming this new life with such great joy. I was lucky to be the third person to hold Jazz, as she still reminds me. Being a part of such a miracle is still, today, the most memorable moment of my life. In the coming days, Jazz was blessed with ceremonies and graced us with her beatific smile. Today, seven years later, she continues to grace us with her beauty, great love, kindness and hilarious laughter. I love you, Jazz, more than I can ever say. I’ve loved you every moment of your life. And today I wish you the happiest of birthdays — all the way across the 8,000 miles that divide us (physically) while I am always with you, as you are always with me.

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Grief, Interview

Linda Schreyer Interviews Elaine Mansfield

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Linda Schreyer Interviews Elaine Mansfield

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Tears and Tequila Author, Linda Schreyer, talks with Elaine Mansfield about the many things they have in common- grief, living in the country, spiritual paths, the power of ritual after the death of a loved one, and more.

Elaine Mansfield is an author and hospice bereavement workshop leader. Her memoir, Leaning Into Love: A Spiritual Journey Through Grief, captures the heart–from the extraordinary closeness of Elaine’s marriage to how she and her husband Vic transform their struggle with cancer and despair into a conscious relationship with mortality. After Vic’s death, Elaine leans into her ongoing love as grief leads her through emotional and spiritual depths on a journey into her new life.

Elaine writes with an intimate connection to nature and a spiritual perspective that reflects over forty years as a student of philosophy, Jungian psychology, mythology, and meditation. She and her husband, Vic, became students of the Dalai Lama on his first US visit in 1979. Six weeks before his death, Vic taught with the Dalai Lama in a science and religion colloquium. Elaine lives on 71 acres of woods, fields, and sunset views bordering the Finger Lakes National Forest in upstate New York where she moved with her family in 1972.

For more information on Elaine, please visit her website: elainemansfield.com/

Writing

Remember to take a break

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Writers, writers everywhere. If you are like me and you get completely engrossed in writing on your computer, here’s what you need!http://www.dejal.com/timeout/
This is an app that reminds you to take a break, dims your computer screen if you’re break-resistant and allows you to set how often it reminds and for how long. Aside from all of your other magnificent suggestions (drink water!!) I just downloaded this to help me help myself! Thank you, Tracey A, for this. Take a look…

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Books, Tibor Gergely and Me, Writing

Memories

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I was twelve when Tibor Gergely drew me, in his studio on Lexington Avenue in NYC, lost in my favorite activity. Now, decades later, I get to go back to my home and read from the book I wrote. Words can’t describe the joy and excitement in my heart today.

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