Writing Fire May 1st

Some folks have asked where they can download my song that is the intro and outro for over a dozen Berkshire Festival of Women Writers' videos:

Freeze My Head

Come down to the Tina Packer Theatre/Josie's Cafe at Shakespeare & Company celebrating the launch of the Writing Fire anthology on Friday, May 1st from 5:30 - 7:30.

Arrive early at this gorgeous spot and visit with the array of writers represented. I'm thrilled to have a haiku in the book.
I'll be going on at 5:30.

Community Food Access Resource

Even a container garden can yield extra veggies to share..
Berkshire FoodNet launches 'Grow An Extra Row' campaign

Berkshire Foodweb

"A Place at the Table" at Berkshire Museum Sunday, April 12

Center for Food Studies at Bard College

                                                                 
an article on hunger in our backyard:
http://theberkshireedge.com/connections-berkshire-staples-hunger-and-poverty/

On April 11 at Simon’s Rock there is a conference on food and sustainable living at  Bard College of Simon’s Rock: “Think Food, sponsored by the newly established Center for Food Studies at Simon’s Rock and The Nutrition Center.

Book Expo

I'm excited to take part in the Berkshire Festival of Women Writers Book Expo on Sunday, March 29th from 1 - 4pm at the Crowne Plaza in Pittsfield.

My new CD   Ecstatic Dances  will be available and there will be dancing!
Music at 2pm and at 4pm.

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No Kid Hungry

It's hard to believe that 1 in 5 children in America go hungry.
Writing and recording a song about mindful eating has made me more aware of the disparity between those of us who are 'eating mindfully' and those who have none.

How do we help?

Here's a great program:

nokidhungry.org/the-solution

The Heroine's Journey

It was an honor to play the story drum and accompany Amber Chand on her 'Heroine's Journey' at No. Six Depot where she transformed all who heard her with her riveting  performance.

Amber's performance benefited in part the Berkshire Festival of Women Writers.

Survivor Tree on youtube with Andrea Feldman images

'Survivor Tree' with images by artist Andrea Feldman

Mark Twain

Here's Mark Twain's 'Your Loving Santa Claus ' letter

 to his three-year old:      Letters of Note

                                                                     

Thanks to Tom Daly at the Norman Rockwell Museum for inviting me to read aloud from various letters with a Christmas twang.                    
Where else can you meet someone from East Mouseberg and read Mark Twain's letter to his daughter as Santa Claus?
So glad I also got to read the letter aloud written by the editor of the New York Sun back in 1897, Francis P. Church. I never knew exactly where the expression 'Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus' came from, and the man seated next to me in the photo above knew the story in detail. (He also wanted to rename a town in PA East Mouseberg, but that's another story...)
It's an uplifting tale to read: Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus

Francis P. Church, an estimable fellow

Happy New Year.
To paraphrase Francis Church, the most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men or women can see.