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ISSN: 1530-5775
March 2010, Vol.12 #3


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March 2010! —


From Susan Diodati

I knew It Then
“I look in the mirror and wonder where I went...”
With these words we are swept away to Italy: an apartment off the Via Cassia illumined by the legendary light of Rome. To the whitewashed stucco cottage in Marin County, California, where five days after Susan Diodati returns from Italy her mother dies. The unfathomable grief. The unexpected solace of taking refuge in the family home that is now hers to live in until she dies, which is exactly what she wants—until the discovery of a box of letters hidden in the linen closet. The drama they expose draws Susan into a mystery she is resolute to unravel. But after a year of sleuthing, she runs for rescue to the stark high desert of Sedona, Arizona, where the most famous energy vortex—Cathedral Rock—shatters her illusions about family, love, and responsibility. Sedona lights the fuse on a profound and emotional journey of transformation that hurls Susan onto the road of self-discovery, forgiveness, and renewal.

I Knew It Then

From Danielle Joy Linhart

From Deep Within
Violence and abuse in teen dating is more common than we want to think...

"In my heart I believed that I wasn’t good enough for anyone else and that I couldn’t get anyone else who would put up with me. So, I accepted the relationship and all of the consequences that it brought. I even protected him and stuck with him because I thought that I was the cause of everything. Feeling at fault became a normal feeling for me and I blamed everything that went wrong in the relationship on myself. No matter how bad I could have been, there is absolutely no excuse for mental and physical abuse. The fear that my boyfriend created stopped me from getting help and stopped me from confiding in others."

This is an important story for every teen and everyone with a teen in their life, and the book not only warns but offers help. We are grateful to Danielle Joy Linhart for writing her story so other young girls may avoid such abuse.

From Deep Within

From Robbie Haden, with Jennifer Farmer

Running With Angels
Haley-Jo is someone you will remember, but she could be any teen you know.

Haley-Jo Bodine is a young runaway. She could easily be your child or mine. Readers will care what happens to her, and will identify with her pain and loneliness. Tough subjects are handled realistically but with sensitivity. I recommend this book not only for at-risk youth, but also for the adults who care about them.

Running With Angels

From Georgia Jones

Memorable Seasons a new poetry collection from the author of Isabelle's Appetite, A Garden of Weedin', editor and contributor to Women on a Wire and other books.

There are more seasons than the weather allows...
In Memorable Seasons, Georgia Jones has divided her poems into: A Season of Love, The Silly Season, A Season for Peace, A Season of Reflection, and A Season of Life.

Memorable Seasons

Listen to Audio ShowsHear a reading
Georgia's new book Memorable Seasons and a little about writing poetry

This book is also available in a large print version. If you want the large print version order as usual, but please send an email indicating your choice of the large print so your order will be fulfilled that way.



From Lane Willey

On the eve of an election that will change history, I finished this book. Not a day of researching or writing went by that I did not think of the slaves and those who helped them to freedom: free blacks, religious groups, Native Americans and Canadians from every walk of life. If Barack Obama is elected president Free at Last will whisper through the trees and be heard by those willing to listen to words from the past.

Lane Willey
November 3, 2008
Whittled by Time

Whittled By Time

A young slave escapes from his master in Georgia and slowly makes his way to freedom in the North. Isaac travels on foot, ships, wagons and is helped by religious sects, Abolitionists and free blacks. Aspects of the Freedom quilt and recently discovered safe houses in the northeast provided temporary safety. Isaac was always aware that a single word could change the course of his life. Factual chapters are interspersed throughout the book to provide the reader with details of slavery prior to and immediately after the Civil War.

Available in the store now

Whittled By Time is an effective mix of fact and fiction that takes the reader through an adventure story to a greater understanding of an important period in American history.




Award-Winner in the Audio Book: Spiritual category of the National Best Books 2008 Awards, sponsored by USA Book News...(insert drum roll here)      Lives in Process by Dottie Moore

 


From Georgia Jones!

Isabelle'sAppetite

Were some things meant to last forever?

When Isabelle’s life suddenly goes into freefall, it is food that becomes her anchor. In Isabelle’s Appetite, the reader experiences a single day that is a lifetime of revelation.

This is a life, a marriage, a funeral procession, a walk through a past to ashes and passion. Its pathos is not without humor and its understanding is not without human frailty and misunderstanding.


Lane Willey (Ms. Elani) doesn't just talk books;
she writes them!
Fireflies in Baldwin

A killing with overtones of a racial nature greets Olivia as she moves to her new town. Needing to flee the large city, she has come to the country to start a quiet life, one without problems. But that is not to be. Through no fault of her own she moves into a house intended for other purposes and finds herself unsure of whom she can trust. The result will threaten her life.
Give Fireflies in Baldwin to the reader in your house,
or buy it for yourself!


From Harriet Tramer

Rounding the Circle of Love
How many of us will need to care for aging parents? Harriet Tramer is one who has and has researched the difficulties, concerns and rewards in order to manage the care of her own mother and to help others through the process.

Fact filled book with easy reference.

Rounding the Circle of Love

From Elizabeth Castillo

Feelings

Feelings We Don't Reveal - Faith vs. Hate

"Elizabeth Castillo's poems brilliantly touch upon life's most important subjects, ranging from religion and family to friendship and love. Elizabeth writes about things that most of us have experienced, but presents those wisely chosen words in a way that's never been said before."

~Eugene Foley, author of
Artist Development - A Distinctive Guide To The Music Industry's Lost Art

Find out more about Elizabeth at ElizabethCastilloPoetry.com

Available in the store now

 

Social, political, lifestyle, Audio, Webcasting, Web Casting


On NewVoices.com
Listen to Audio ShowsElizabeth talks with music
impressario Eugene Foley about poetry and song

 



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A new series... collections from LadybugFlights! Ms. Elani's Recipe book.

Ms. Elani's Recipes

You will find Ms. Elani's Recipe book in our book store. The View from Anywhere.

The View from Anywhere

Hear Shimon on MooseMeals.com!

The View from Anywhere is a Signature Series Audio Book plus text, read by author Shimon Weinroth. On the Money by Beatrice Spreadmoore.

On the Money

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Delight by Dr. Barbara Becker-Holstein
In this unusual book which features both audio and visual effects, Barbara Holstein reflects on her value system and the lessons of her own life through stories.

 

The Truth

The Truth
I'm ten, I'm smart and I know everything
From Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein, originator of The Enchanted Self(R) and nationally known positive psychologist.
A girl on the cusp of puberty... wise... evokes laughter and tears... refreshing and inspiring... humorous anecdotes... meaning and insights... stimulates discussion between mother and daughter.

 

Over the Edge

Over the Edge by G. L. Gerber
JuneBug Winner! This collection of short stories was chosen for the 2003 best short story collection!

 

4 Part Harmony

4 Part Harmony by Marcie Brown
You will love this story of music and art in the streets, of life and youth, of learning... And now you can listen to an excerpt right here!

Lives in Process

The "quilt book" Lives in Process: The Second fifty Years by Dottie Moore with portraits by Michael Harrison
This is a book that shows why electronic books are an amazing contribution to the reading experience...
Over 100 color images of some of the most beautiful quilts you will ever see!
NOW! Available as an audio book with the bonus text CD and images


Women and Disabilities It isn't them and us.

Mona Huges

a book every woman should own
by Mona Hughes


Screaming Quietly by Hadassah Bat Haim,
a humorous look at the search for a cure and understanding of migraine headache.
You will love this one!

Screaming Quietly

Also from Hadassah Bat Haim:

Off the Rails

A multimedia book on CD —
Winner of the 2001 Junebug Short Story Collection!

Off The Rails


Start Writing!

The perfect tool to fire that urge, focus your efforts, and improve your writing. A perfect gift for some other writer in your life as well!

Write What You Know
A Writers Adventure with Georgia Jones


Alice Anderson

Extraordinary Ordinary Women
by Alice Hellstrom Anderson
You are an extraordinary woman and won't want to miss this one!! available to order NOW!!

 

Winds of Change.

Winds of Change

See the video!
Read about her!

Winds of Change is a Signature Series Audio Book, read and sung by author JoAnn Vickers Wilburn.

Winds of Change is an interweaving of stories and songs, which deal with a relationship as it moves through changes that lead toward divorce — from a fairy tale beginning through the nightmare of abuse and betrayal, to a new understanding and a new beginning. These stories are complete within themselves and also tell a complete story in their entirety. Stories and songs are written and performed by the author herself.

 

34 Million Friends

34 Million Friends, an honorable mention in the IPPY (small publishers) book awards!

34 Million Friends

34 Million Friends A memoir of Jane Roberts' fight for social justice for women through the organization she founded with Lois Abraham, 34 Million Friends. This book is in its thrid printing. You better get your copy now!

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At LadybugPress we consider our donation program one of the most important things we do!

Dear Jane,
Thank you so much for your donation of a copy of 34 Million Friends of the Women of the World. It's generous donations like yours that make it possible for our library to exist, and your enthusiam is heartwarming. I'll make it our featured book to help spread the word about www.34millionfriends.org.

Sincerely,
Elizabeth Uselton
Feminist Studies Library
University of California, Santa Cruz
180 Kresge College
Santa Cruz, CA 95064

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  • And any purchase of a LadybugPress title which is accompanied by a receipt showing a donation of two books from any other publisher to a non-profit will be discounted 10% as our way of rewarding your caring!

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THIS MONTH:
Poetry Corner  Poetry

A poetic conversation with poets, Robin Hiersche, Darcie Ziel, David Wiley, Dennis O'Donnell.

 

Darcie Ziel

Poetry
	
	
    Crawl Inside
    Judgment comes from within, not from without. I'm not here for that, not to remove that privilege from your hands. expressive, soft, hesitant the graceful length of them stirs up heat in my core. But for all of their touching, what have you felt? Oh, to crawl inside of you, Warm, and dark, to know you, or, rather, to be you. What I possess now: a collection of impressions: your hands existing between us on a table, your frame silhouetted against the window in a bright room. the closeness of our faces your soft lips against my cheek laughing eyes intermingling sweat, and the contour of your ribs under my grasp the expression of distance in your eyes when you go somewhere that I can't come and the openness there when you invite me in. Hundreds of images pasting down my experience of you. That's why I'm here, to share with you to taste your hands, to touch your tongue to crawl inside. There are lots of things I like, don't condemn me to be your judge. I'm not you, And that's not why we're here.

Poetry

 

Dennis O'Donnell

Poetry
	

I am afraid
I am afraid of the linoleum, the way it lies so flat and so smooth like the belly of a serpent I am afraid of the guts of the toilet, and I know that they move differently when I replace the lid I am afraid of the bank teller, behind the impregnable glass, smiling, thinking, you poor slob I am afraid of the boat motor, putt putt putting away, burning the gas so I can die of exposure I am afraid of the double axe, that extra blade obviously not meant for the wood. I am afraid of the electric guitar, shocking me with a cartoon lightning bolt that exposes my bones I am afraid of the curves in the road, of what they are hiding behind well placed trees and mountainsides I am afraid of Jack Benny, grinning, waiting for the joke to land I am afraid of the light socket I am afraid of the end.

 

David Wiley

Poetry
	
	
    The Orient
    The old man who sold hats, with a thousand lines per square inch connecting the vast regions of his face, might have come, we used to think, from another planet, or at least from another time on Earth. First of all, we couldn't understand his words, although people said he spoke our language. it was a trick, like doubletalk, nodding and grinning, two sets of eyes, one set focused on something far away that none of us could ever hope to see. He seemed to be surrounded by a nimbus, a color never seen in comic books, and in the trail of the glow a sound like music gently pursued him;. Each of his teeth was a tiny statue, one make of gold, all the rest ivory. During the year of the autumn flood the old man disappeared, swallowed, someone said, by a giant carp. the little stand on Main Street where he sold his hats was left alone shrinelike in it's emptiness; and as people passed they often stopped to look, and even, unaware, to slightly bow.

Poetry

 

 

Robin Hiersche

Poetry
	
	
To Fall In Love With A Poet
let me tell you a thing or two it's always a bad idea to fall in love with a poet, who, just for her personal amusement will say anything she knows will turn you on and worst of all, really knows how to put it out. it's always a terrible, self destructive choice, and if you can choose otherwise, you'd be a lot better off. I'd say, run as fast as you can in any direction except, of course the direction in which lies the poet. she will be waiting with curious arms, legs, mouth, mind and heart, which you must understand for her, are all renewable resources. It's always a bad idea to listen to a poet, and especially dangerous to read the poems written to you, which is the equivalent of being unwittingly fed bacon when you are a pig, or eggs, when you are a chicken. you are entirely better off with a waitress or a schoolteacher someone who will make a matrimonial deal you can at least understand. Flat out gold ring prostitutes are a better trade for your time. Of this you will become painfully aware when you wake up for the forty millionth time alone, knowing she isn't. it's a very bad idea to believe in a poet, who tells lies to anyone who asks for them, compassionate, fantastic, hilarious lies about everything, all the time, everywhere, to everyone---as usual, not just you, even in this. truth, beauty, life, love the Divine; whatever; but the poet will have a secret name for all of that that you can not grasp quickly enough --- like water flowing through your hands when your mouth is parched. finally you will go to her and say I really understand now, my hands can hold all of you and all of me is in your hands--- this simply is we simply are it's only we. the poet laughs, her voice rippling over the present tense of the verb to be the first person singular and steals one last kiss... consuming all the air.

Poetry

 

 

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International Women's Day March 8

You already know, I hope, that these pages support those who help women. One of our favorite groups carrying out that work is PeaceXPeace. They, too, feature exceptional women.   ~Georgia

International Women's Day has been observed since in the early 1900's, a time of great expansion and turbulence in the industrialized world that saw booming population growth and the rise of radical ideologies.

1908
Great unrest and critical debate was occurring amongst women. Women's oppression and inequality was spurring women to become more vocal and active in campaigning for change. Then in 1908, 15,000 women marched through New York City demanding shorter hours, better pay and voting rights.

1909
In accordance with a declaration by the Socialist Party of America, the first National Woman's Day (NWD) was observed across the United States on 28 February. Women continued to celebrate NWD on the last Sunday of February until 1913.

1910
In 1910 a second International Conference of Working Women was held in Copenhagen. A woman named a Clara Zetkin (Leader of the 'Women's Office' for the Social Democratic Party in Germany) tabled the idea of an International Women's Day. She proposed that every year in every country there should be a celebration on the same day - a Women's Day - to press for their demands. The conference of over 100 women from 17 countries, representing unions, socialist parties, working women's clubs, and including the first three women elected to the Finnish parliament, greeted Zetkin's suggestion with unanimous approval and thus International Women's Day was the result.

1911
Following the decision agreed at Copenhagen in 1911, International Women's Day (IWD) was honoured the first time in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland on 19 March. More than one million women and men attended IWD rallies campaigning for women's rights to work, vote, be trained, to hold public office and end discrimination. However less than a week later on 25 March, the tragic 'Triangle Fire' in New York City took the lives of more than 140 working women, most of them Italian and Jewish immigrants. This disastrous event drew significant attention to working conditions and labour legislation in the United States that became a focus of subsequent International Women's Day events. 1911 also saw women's 'Bread and Roses' campaign.

1913-1914
On the eve of World War I campaigning for peace, Russian women observed their first International Women's Day on the last Sunday in February 1913. In 1913 following discussions, International Women's Day was transferred to 8 March and this day has remained the global date for International Wommen's Day ever since. In 1914 further women across Europe held rallies to campaign against the war and to express women's solidarity.

1917
On the last Sunday of February, Russian women began a strike for "bread and peace" in response to the death over 2 million Russian soldiers in war. Opposed by political leaders the women continued to strike until four days later the Czar was forced to abdicate and the provisional Government granted women the right to vote. The date the women's strike commenced was Sunday 23 February on the Julian calendar then in use in Russia. This day on the Gregorian calendar in use elsewhere was 8 March.

1918 - 1999
Since its birth in the socialist movement, International Women's Day has grown to become a global day of recognition and celebration across developed and developing countries alike. For decades, IWD has grown from strength to strength annually. For many years the United Nations has held an annual IWD conference to coordinate international efforts for women's rights and participation in social, political and economic processes. 1975 was designated as 'International Women's Year' by the United Nations. Women's organisations and governments around the world have also observed IWD annually on 8 March by holding large-scale events that honour women's advancement and while diligently reminding of the continued vigilance and action required to ensure that women's equality is gained and maintained in all aspects of life.

2000 and beyond
IWD is now an official holiday in China, Armenia, Russia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and Vietnam. The tradition sees men honouring their mothers, wives, girlfriends, colleagues, etc with flowers and small gifts. In some countries IWD has the equivalent status of Mother's Day where children give small presents to their mothers and grandmothers.

The new millennium has witnessed a significant change and attitudinal shift in both women's and society's thoughts about women's equality and emancipation. Many from a younger generation feel that 'all the battles have been won for women' while many feminists from the 1970's know only too well the longevity and ingrained complexity of patriarchy. With more women in the boardroom, greater equality in legislative rights, and an increased critical mass of women's visibility as impressive role models in every aspect of life, one could think that women have gained true equality. The unfortunate fact is that women are still not paid equally to that of their male counterparts, women still are not present in equal numbers in business or politics, and globally women's education, health and the violence against them is worse than that of men.

However, great improvements have been made. We do have female astronauts and prime ministers, school girls are welcomed into university, women can work and have a family, women have real choices. And so the tone and nature of IWD has, for the past few years, moved from being a reminder about the negatives to a celebration of the positives.

On 8 March, thousands of events are held throughout the world to inspire women and celebrate achievements. A global web of rich and diverse local activity connects women from all around the world ranging from political rallies, business conferences, government activities and networking events through to local women's craft markets, theatric performances, fashion parades and more.

Many global corporations have also started to more actively support IWD by running their own internal events and through supporting external ones. For example, on 8 March search engine and media giant Google some years even changes its logo on its global search pages. Year on year IWD is certainly increasing in status. The United States even designates the whole month of March as 'Women's History Month'.

So make a difference, think globally and act locally !! Make everyday International Women's Day. Do your bit to ensure that the future for girls is bright, equal, safe and rewarding.

Reprinted from PeaceXPeace. Please visit their site and help them continue their work for women worldwide.

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