Category: events
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Friends of Pete
EDITED: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED DUE TO RAIN. It will now be held May 21. STAY TUNED. Wednesday, May 14, Parisian Phoenix will be joining Friends of Pete for their spring food drive at Greater Lehigh Valley Meals on Wheels. Friends of Pete is an amazing, supporting networking group that gathers at locations at various…
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Upcoming Workshops
At the end of May, (Saturday, May 31 at 10:30 a.m.) Larry Sceurman and I will be hosting a workshop at Hellertown Library, Storytelling as a First Draft. It’s a free workshop and you can contact the library to reserve your spot. For more information on Hellertown Library events, click here. Join oral storyteller and author…
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Jill Peters speaks to GLVWG
Jill Peters, one of the early presidents of the Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group, spoke to the organization Saturday April 26 about team writing and working on the book Hear Us Out: Six Questions About Belonging and Belief (Fortress Press, 2023). She approached the group with wisdom and charisma, and…
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Reflections on a Battle between Bookshop.org and Amazon.com
I’m thinking about how the world keeps changing. Now I’m not putting a judgment on that reality, but as I approach my 50th birthday in May I have reached that age where the experiences I cherish the most are very different from what happens in my everyday life now. Small…
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New Workshop debuts at Hellertown Library May 31
Larry Sceurman and I will be at Hellertown Library on May 31 for a workshop on preserving personal stories— whether they be family history, fiction, or personal. We’re going to discuss the stories we tell each other and how to use them as a first draft of a written work.…
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There is no art without story
As a journalist, I know there is always a story. If two people are in a room, I used to tell my interns and new reporters, there is a story. If a meeting gets canceled, there’s a story why. As humans, we cherish story. We may live in day-to-day routines but our entertainment,…
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