Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul (33 page)

K. Bernard
has recently added a master’s degree in professional writing to her extensive background in theater and religious studies. She has published a number of articles in local and regional publications, and has written and designed web pages for the Internet. She likes all kinds of writing, but her heart belongs to poetry.

Edgar Bledsoe
was born on a farm in northeastern Missouri. He was one of the “Okies” who went to California in the 1930s, when the Depression interrupted his studies at Texas Tech. He had a successful sales career with Kaiser Aluminum Company and is now retired and living with his wife, Marian, in Green Valley, Arizona.

Jean Bole, R.N., B.A.,
is Restorative/Rehabilitation certified and a CNA Instructor. She is currently adjunct faculty at several colleges, instructing nursing assistants and patient care associates, as well as a Restraint Alternative and Restraint Reduction consultant to long-term care facilities. She is a published freelance writer/poet. You can reach her by writing to PO Box 11, Crete, IL 60417.

Melissa Masters Bowers
is a minister, writer and speaker. After seven years in a West Coast ministry, she relocated with her family to the Midwest to pursue her favorite career—being a mom! A columnist for
New Perspectives
magazine, a freelance writer and a guest lecturer, Melissa specializes in topics that promote wholeness and compassion. She can be reached at 511 N. Main St., Lee’s Summit, MO 64063, or call 816-246-5799.

Rita Bresnahan
has been an educator for the past 40 years, a psychotherapist for over 25 years and a writer for almost 12 months. Her story, “Walking One Another Home” (written while she spent the summer of ‘95 back in Illinois country in order to enjoy unrushed time with her mother), will be the lead story/title of her upcoming book. Rita offers workshops and presentations on topics dear to her heart: conscious aging, community and the spirituality of the human journey. Rita can be reached at 500 Wall St. #319, Seattle, WA 98121, or call 206-728-5819.

William Canty’s
cartoons have appeared in many national magazines, including
Saturday Evening Post, Better Homes and Gardens, Woman’s World, National Review
and
Medical Economics.
His syndicated feature
All About Town
runs in 40 newspapers.

Fran Capo
is a stand-up comic, lecturer and author and is in the
Guinness Book of World Records
as the fastest-talking female. She has appeared on over 76 television shows and 248 radio shows. Fran both entertains and educates her audiences with her high energy and rapidly paced delivery in her lectures, “How to Get Publicity Without a Publicist” and “Humor and Business Speaking.” She can be reached at PO Box 580272, Flushing, NY 11358, or call 718-657-8055, or e-mail [email protected].

Dave Carpenter
has been a full-time cartoonist and humorous illustrator since 1981. His cartoons have appeared in
The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Better Homes and Gardens, Good Housekeeping, Woman’s World, First, The Saturday Evening Post
and numerous other publications. Dave can be reached at P.O. Box 520, Emmetsburg, IA 50536 or by calling 712-852-3725.

Fr. Brian Cavanaugh, T.O.R.,
began collecting quotations, anecdotes and stories as a form of journal-writing therapy. Over the years he has compiled more than 40 handwritten journals. Drawing upon this collection, he writes
Apple Seeds,
a monthly quote letter of motivation and inspiration. These journals have also resulted in four books published by Paulist Press:
The Sower’s Seeds: One Hundred Inspiring Stories for Preaching, Teaching and Public Speaking; More Sower’s Seeds: Second Planting; Fresh Packet of Sower’s Seeds: Third Planting
and
Sower’s Seeds Aplenty:Fourth Planting.
Fr. Brian is a storytelling motivational/inspirational lecturer. He can be contacted at Franciscan University, Steubenville, OH 43952.
Philip Sutton Chard
is a psychotherapist, business trainer and award-winning newspaper columnist for the
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
He is the author of
The Healing Earth: Nature’s Medicine for the Troubled Soul
(NorthWord Press, 1994), a groundbreaking work in eco-psychology. Philip’s storytelling mastery won him two excellence-in-teaching awards at Michigan State University. He can be reached at NEAS, Inc., 20700 Swenson Dr., #200, Waukesha, WI 53186 or by calling 414-547-3986.

Rebecca Christian
is a playwright, travel writer, speaker and columnist raised in Dubuque, Iowa. Her work has appeared in over 100 magazines and newspapers. She can be reached at 641 Alta Vista St., Dubuque, IA 52001, or call 319-582-9193.
Dan Clark
is the international ambassador of “the art of being alive.” He has spoken to over 2 million people in all 50 states, Canada, Europe, Asia and Russia. Dan is an actor, songwriter, recording artist, video producer and award-winning athlete. He is the well-known author of six books, including
Getting High—How to Really Do It, One Minute Messages
and
The Art of Being Alive.
He can be reached at PO Box 8689, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, or call 801-485-5755.

Sharon Nicola Cramer
is part grunt soldier, navigator, medic and commanding officer, and she believes that motherhood, not the Army, is the hardest job you’ll ever love. She is addressing
Mother Love,
a quarterly newsletter of humor and inspiration, to other mothers on the “senior tour.” Her witty presentations to children, adults and those in recovery combine her storytellling talents and life experiences “in the trenches.” You can contact her at 221 West Main Street, Cary, IL 60013, or call 847-516-3691.

Lillian K. Darr
worked briefly for the author Ben Hecht and for the editor of the
Saturday Review of Literature,
Norman Cousins. She has two girls and two boys and has lived in New York, California, Hawaii and Fairfield, Iowa, where she now resides. She is a faithful practitioner of the Transcendental Meditation program, with incalculable benefits. Five-and-a-half years ago she met the love of her life, Bill Darr.

Mary Ann Detzler
is a wife, mother and Unity minister who specializes in teaching meditation, prosperity and self-awareness. She loves to lead women’s retreats. As administrator for a spiritual education organization, she often travels internationally, assisting her husband in teaching spiritual healing. She can be reached at Spiritual Response Center, 727 245th PL NE, Redmond, WA 98053, or call 206-868-3643.

Cathy Downs
is a reading specialist at East Burke Middle School in Icard, North Carolina. She enjoys each day in the classroom working with students who have reading difficulties. At the beginning of each year she shares her father’s story with her students. She can be reached at P.O. Box 1231, Valdese, NC 28690.

Linda Ellerbee
is an award-winning television producer, bestselling author and one of the most sought-after speakers in the country. Over the past 25 years, she has earned a reputation as a highly respected and outspoken journalist, while winning all of television’s highest honors. Linda’s company, Lucky Duck Productions, is rounding out a decade of producing ground-breaking television. Her first bestseller,
And So It Goes,
is recognized as the most candid portrayal of television news ever written. She can be reached c/o LRB Services, Inc., 96 Morton Street, New York, NY 10014, or call 212-463-0029.

Betty Aboussie Ellis
specializes in the design, development and presentation of customized training programs. She and her husband/business partner, Peter, devote their efforts to connecting training with the real work people do every day, setting up training for large service centers in the U.S. and Great Britain. Betty is a founding member of The Outsource Alliance. She reports she is in excellent health and can be reached at 8410 Hall, Lenexa, KS 66219, or call 913-541-9267.

Sandy Ezrine
is an author, trainer and management consultant. For 20 years she has worked with foundations, universities, federal agencies and private corporations. Sandy specializes in organizational development, employee motivation and problem-solving. She is currently writing a new book,
1001 Ways to Organize Anything.
She can be reached at PO Box 658, Cornville, AZ 86325, or call 520-639-3311.

Dave Farrell
is an award-winning investigative journalist and syndicated columnist. During his 20 years as a daily newspaper reporter, he won numerous state and national awards, including the Professional Journalism Society’s National Investigative Reporting Award. In 1992, he received the prestigious Mike Wallace Investigative Fellowship at the University of Michigan. His column,
Roadside Attractions Along the Information Highway,
is syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate and appears in more than 30 newspapers in the U.S., Canada and Japan.

Joan Fountain
is a powerful and engaging speaker who owns the training and consulting firm Joan Fountain & Associates. A sought-after motivational keynote speaker, Joan has appeared on the nationally syndicated television talk shows of Oprah Winfrey, Phil Donahue, Sally Jesse Rafael and Montel Williams. Look for her inspirational book,
Nothing Bad Happens—Ever.
Joan can be reached at 3104 0 Street, Suite 220, Sacramento, CA 95816, or call 916454-5412, or e-mail [email protected].

Beverly Gemigniani
is a certified teacher and a four-time gold medal winner in the Senior Olympics. The Dancin’ Grannies have four exercise videos that have been a recommended buy for libraries and by
Consumer Digest.
The D.G.’s have been on
Donahue, The Today Show
and
Arsenio Hall,
and have danced in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. They also performed at the White House. They dance, entertain and teach unique sitting exercises across the USA. Call 602-895-7052.

Rosemarie Giessinger
is a columnist, speaker and psychic counselor who channels past-life information, spiritual lessons, angels and guides for her clients. She can be reached at PO Box 2024, Albany, OR 97321.

Randy Glasbergen’s
humorous cartoons are featured in more than 25 countries. His cartoon panel,
The Better Half,
is syndicated daily and Sunday by King Features Syndicate to newspapers worldwide. He has created humorous illustrations for Hallmark, IDG Books, NAPA Auto Parts,
Golf Digest, Woman’s World,
American Airlines and many, many more. His books include
Getting Started Drawing and Selling Cartoons,How to Be a Successful Cartoonist
and
Attack of the Zit Monster and Other Teenage Terrors.
Randy lives and works in a big old and creaky three-story Victorian house, in a very small town in rural New York State. For more information or samples, please call or fax 607674-9492.

Diana Golden
is a world-class speaker, writer and Olympic gold medalist. She lost her leg to cancer at the age of 12, and went on to take the ski racing world by storm. Winning an Olympic gold medal and 29 golds in World and National championships, Diana became the most successful ski racer in American history
(Skiing Magazine)
. This articulate and humorous Dartmouth College graduate addresses such issues as creating opportunity out of change, weaving strong individuals into a powerful team, and the many faces of courage. Her electrifying presentations inspire audiences worldwide to break through their fears, pursue their dreams and never, never give up.

Elinor Daily Hall
is a member of the
Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul
team. She also is in business with her husband, Ron. Their company, Global Coherence, Inc., markets products that enhance home and office environments by conditioning electricity and electrical devices. She can be reached at 800871-0078.

Patty Hansen
has her priorities straight—being Mom is number one. As the other half of the “Mark/Patty Team,” she divides her time between being chief financial officer and troubleshooter at M.V. Hansen & Associates, Inc., and serving as full-time driver, caretaker and homework assistant to their two daughters, Elisabeth and Melanie. She also loves to squeeze in some time to garden, raise chickens and play on the beach. She is coauthor of
Condensed Chicken Soup for the Soul.
She can be reached at 711 W. 17th St. D2, Costa Mesa, CA 92627. Call 714-759-9304 or from outside California, 800-433-2314.

Jean Harper
is a pilot with United Airlines. She is married to another United Airlines pilot and is the mother of two children. She is a writer and public speaker whose favorite subjects are aviation, Christianity, interpersonal communication and inspirational/motivational topics. She can be reached at 8529 E. Nichols Ave., Englewood, CO 80112-2734.

Christine Harris-Amos
has a history of formal art training. Her art has always had a sense of love, happiness and whimsy to it. She currently restricts her art shows to her home, which also serves as her gallery. Christine met Wally “Famous” Amos on a flight in which she was a flight attendant. They fell in love, and their common love of chocolate chip cookies became legendary. Christine created two cookie dolls named CHIP and COOKIE and travels with Wally and her daughter, Sarah, to promote them. Christine is a very happy mother, homemaker and artist residing on Oahu, watching the palm trees sway in the cool trade winds.

Jacqueline Hickey
is a freelance writer living in Rockport, Massachusetts with her husband and three children. She works as an office manager at the beautiful Seaward Inn in Rockport, and is currently working on her first novel. Jacqueline can be contacted a 61/2 Rear Parker Street, Rockport, MA 01966.

Barbara Haines Howett’s
novel of interrelated stories about culture shock in Indonesia,
Ladies of the Borabudur,
is being circulated by her agent. She received her M.A. in Creative Writing from Antioch University, has been adjunct professor at Northampton Community College, and conducts time management workshops geared to the writing life at writers’ conferences.