Celebrate with me the fun of a first published book, a dream come true! Never mind that I just celebrated my 70th birthday. Never mind that my Tibetan-American friends are a bit nervous, wondering what this will mean for them. Join us all at 4:30 pm, Saturday, April 28, 2018, …
I still don’t quite believe anyone will read my book. Its cover is lovely, but when it’s lined up next to other books on a shelf, it modestly and shyly steps back, like the Tibetan kids themselves used to do, any time I threw them onto a soccer team, or …
Book Launch Party at Folklore Village – Photos (Batch 2) Photos by Becky Rehl
A yellow school bus pulled up to Folklore Village, my favorite rural folk arts center, near Ridgeway, Wisconsin, and off piled 12 teens in shorts and flip flops, followed by three dozen parents and friends, bearing sizeable roasting pans to put on the potluck table, trunks, suitcases and odd-shaped cases …
First book sold! One down, 1999 to go. All books start their life somewhere, after that date of publication, with a single book sold to an interested reader. I’m touched that a high school English teacher purchased the first copy of How to Make a Life from me – wondering …
My first book! Really hitting the bookstores! How to Make a Life: A Tibetan Refugee Family and the Midwestern Woman They Adopted, the story about 15 years of interactions with my Madison friends who moved from a Tibetan refugee “camp” (more like a small town) in India, is out of …
My writing instructor Julie Tallard Johnson said, “Better late than never — better to finish my novel by age 60 than not at all.” We cannot come late to this table of writers. Our whole life has prepared us. Compare a memoir at 20 and at 70 years of age. …
What I admired and learned most about in Turkmenistan is the patience, dignity, and intelligence of the Turkmen people. They are wise in politics, and have a deep love for family. This love gives them patience to wait for better times. There are 5 million Turkmen in Turkmenistan. Another one …
“We can do no great things, only small things with great love.”
“I would like happiness, but not at the expense of the unhappy, & I would like freedom, but not at the expense of the unfree.”
