Hi Mimi. Thanks for your kind words. We can learn much from the animals in our lives that can become our greatest teachers. I visited your fine state a few years ago and fell in love with it.
Isn't that fascinating, Mimi. I'd no idea. Being Ukrainian, I celebrate by the Julian. I get two Christmases as well! Not to mention starting celebrations on the Winter Solstice, December 21st.
These holidays are punctuated by Maalox Day :-D
Actually, October's Newsletter is all about ghost and scary stories. How to jump an audience and timing will also be part of that topic. I am thrilled so many people are liking the newsletter. Thank you. At first, I had my doubts but now... seeing the good it is doing... wonderful.
I hope your husband is well and I know that COPD is a tough one. You guys have my prayers.
I do have some written work about ghost stories, a bit... but I haven't published it yet. Timing hasn't been good to do everything at once.
Stay in touch, you can see me telling on You Tube by searching... creacy, soup
I like your page, I have been away a bit too and will need to focus and get back involved. Are you getting my newsletter? What do you think of it? I would love some feedback.
...and so, here I am back on this website.....time and actions sometimes keeps a person from checking in. I just finished doing a presentation of Mary Todd Lincoln...and what a joy to be her. I figured she was short, dark haired, chubby and demented...wonderful typecasting!!! but to place her in front of women as a real woman....who bore such sorrow and endured such hatred and probably suffered PMS with her migraines and then lose her husband...his blood spilling into her lap as she screamed kill me too for I will never survive without him. Then....her son puts her in an asulym for inheritance purposes. The letters she wrote while there prove she was not insane and got her an early release. it is time to make history true......cleanse the history we teacvh the kids and make those people real.
I thought about you guys on Jan. 6th. I was afarid to commit. I have a damaged achilles tendon in my left heel. I'm under doctor's care for it and thought I would have to have surgery by then. My doctor is still trying to treat it with physical therapy and time in hopes that it may heal itself. Anyway, that's why I never got back to you about the event. Please keep me in mind for future events. I am so close to Bristol that I'd love to come.
Hi Mimi, thank you for thinking of me. I have heard about the workshops and am watching to see if I can get to any of them. The one in December falls on the same date that I will be in northern VA, making fruitcakes with my sisters. Maybe one of the others will work. I hope you're keeping well and warm.
I would love to come to the workshops. Please keep me informed of them and hopefully there will be more. The end of the year is busy for me and I am happy to say that I am getting to a spot where I can see the new year approaching with a little less stress. Be good, have a happy Christmas and New Years... and please keep me posted. I do want to attend, just can't right now.
cordially
Buck
Hey Mimi, I was excited to hear about these new VASA workshops. I will definitely plan to make the Richmond one, I would love to come to the Abingdon one but that weekend is the wife's birthday. I might get a good story if I skip that and come there, but it might cost me more than the gas to get there, plus that weekend Bil Lepp is here in Williamsburg. What a wonderful present for the Mrs. (better than the cordless drill set last year) In the past my Jamestown job has sent me to your area quite often, but the governor has slashed our budget this year so badly that most of my trips have been local. If things ever get better, I hope to travel out your way again. I would like to come to your open mic. Lastly, if all goes well next month I should be launching my new website, heaintright.webs.com. That's the plan anyway. My best, Anthony
.....my life has changed much since I hit this threshold...do you remember a story of what we give the people we care about?...a root system and wings!
How nice to hear from you. I will put Jan. 6th on my calendar - thanks. I hope to be able to come. I'm facing surgery for a torn achilles tendon and I'm not sure what that's going to do to my schedule for the next couple of months. But... I will keep my fingers crossed.
I just saw your post, as well. You added it to your own thread, so I didn't get a message :-D It took me a while to get that technicality, too.
No, Linda wouldn't call herself a storyteller.
Take care. Keep up the good work!
Reisa
At 9:29pm on September 23, 2008, Mimi Rockwell said…
Hi Reisa; I haven't been on this site for some time so I didn't get your message until recently. I don't know Linda Lay who lives in Winchester, but she sounds like fun. Is she a storyteller as well as a musician? Either or both of you might be interested in our state-wide association, Virginia Storytelling Alliance (VASA) www.vastorytelling.org is our website. I am a Hoosier by birth, but love this area and we have lived here for 25 years. This past weekend was the annual Rythym & Roots Musical Festival, a new bluegrass festival that has become very successful here in Bristol. Thanks for writing.
Mimi
At 12:46am on September 10, 2008, Reisa Stone said…
Hello Mimi,
I AM interested in what you're doing. Last summer I had the privilege of studying Bluegrass music with Linda Lay, who was born on the VA side of Bristol. I fell unreservedly in love with Southern culture and soaked up every bit of story she offered. She even gave me a private lesson in how to sing like Patsy. Wow.
Do you know her? She is currently living in Winchester, tending her "truck patch" and building a performance venue with her musician husband David. They are on the Virginia Arts Council touring roster. www.springfieldexit.com.
I sense an opportunity for a storytelling/music exchange. And hope fervently to visit Virginia soon and soak up even more of your incredible culture.
Hey Mimi, I hope things are good. I would be grateful to be on the Beaver Creek email list. Please add me on, awburcher@yahoo.com I'm not often on your side of the state, but I would come to whatever event you were hosting. My best, Anthony B
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These holidays are punctuated by Maalox Day :-D
Actually, October's Newsletter is all about ghost and scary stories. How to jump an audience and timing will also be part of that topic. I am thrilled so many people are liking the newsletter. Thank you. At first, I had my doubts but now... seeing the good it is doing... wonderful.
I hope your husband is well and I know that COPD is a tough one. You guys have my prayers.
I do have some written work about ghost stories, a bit... but I haven't published it yet. Timing hasn't been good to do everything at once.
Stay in touch, you can see me telling on You Tube by searching... creacy, soup
happy Sunday
Buck
Good to see you back! Is Old Christmas another name for the one celebrated by the Julian calendar?
I like your page, I have been away a bit too and will need to focus and get back involved. Are you getting my newsletter? What do you think of it? I would love some feedback.
Buck
I thought about you guys on Jan. 6th. I was afarid to commit. I have a damaged achilles tendon in my left heel. I'm under doctor's care for it and thought I would have to have surgery by then. My doctor is still trying to treat it with physical therapy and time in hopes that it may heal itself. Anyway, that's why I never got back to you about the event. Please keep me in mind for future events. I am so close to Bristol that I'd love to come.
Take care,
Pam
I would love to come to the workshops. Please keep me informed of them and hopefully there will be more. The end of the year is busy for me and I am happy to say that I am getting to a spot where I can see the new year approaching with a little less stress. Be good, have a happy Christmas and New Years... and please keep me posted. I do want to attend, just can't right now.
cordially
Buck
How nice to hear from you. I will put Jan. 6th on my calendar - thanks. I hope to be able to come. I'm facing surgery for a torn achilles tendon and I'm not sure what that's going to do to my schedule for the next couple of months. But... I will keep my fingers crossed.
Pam
I just saw your post, as well. You added it to your own thread, so I didn't get a message :-D It took me a while to get that technicality, too.
No, Linda wouldn't call herself a storyteller.
Take care. Keep up the good work!
Reisa
Mimi
I AM interested in what you're doing. Last summer I had the privilege of studying Bluegrass music with Linda Lay, who was born on the VA side of Bristol. I fell unreservedly in love with Southern culture and soaked up every bit of story she offered. She even gave me a private lesson in how to sing like Patsy. Wow.
Do you know her? She is currently living in Winchester, tending her "truck patch" and building a performance venue with her musician husband David. They are on the Virginia Arts Council touring roster. www.springfieldexit.com.
I sense an opportunity for a storytelling/music exchange. And hope fervently to visit Virginia soon and soak up even more of your incredible culture.
Kind regards,
Reisa Stone
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