Hay House Sponsored Event!

Thank you to Louise Hay’s Hay House, WRITING FROM YOUR SOUL, Dr. Wayne Dyer, CEO Reed Tracy, Poet & Event Coordinator Nancy Levin, April 27-28, 2013.

I mixed 2 assignments:
Something I absolutely can’t write about
&
My most memorable kiss

My smiling lips land right on yours
so lightly the sun rises
in your eyes
perfectly blind from disease

(c) Cindy Lou Levee

Update 2-14-2013

Greetings Readers, 

I’ve been doing so much publicly with macrobiotics that I have neglected this blog!

I’m working with SARK’s WINS Program and my co-writer Hannah Crawford to get my prose manuscript ready for publication. 

I enjoy collaborating with creative minds at Creative Louisiana. If you are interested in joining us for our monthly meetings, please visit http://www.creativelouisiana.com. 

Thanks for visiting, and I will keep you updated! 

Cindy Lou Levee

 

For a Great Read, Young Adult category but I’m an adult and I loved it :)

BLUE THREAD, a Young Adult novel by Ruth Tenzer Feldman

Sixteen year old Miriam Josefsohn’s story begins in 1912 in Portland, Oregon, and what a story it is. At first Miriam’s traditionally authoritarian father decides at the last minute that his fiesty daughter can’t join her best friend Florrie in boarding school in California. To make matters worse, Mr. Josefsohn won’t allow Miriam to continue her education in Portland either. Instead, against every fiber of Miriam’s being, her parents groom her for a month’s visit to Manhattan to fetch a charming husband of her parents’ liking.

With her particularly forceful personality, a sweet and strong Miriam develops her resolve to make a difference. Always a determined and amusing heroine, Miriam knows how to lie “in that proper sort of way” demanded by the stifling polite society of her day. This brave protagonist’s escapades grow more daring as she ventures into another realm to embrace the struggles of sisters of the heart under the leadership of the Jewish Patriarch Moses. On the leading edge of human evolution, Miriam bonds to kindred souls from antiquity to the 20th century who believe in girls’ and women’s self-development as well as the rights that belong to every person.

Although this book is published in the Young Adult category, I myself thoroughly enjoyed it and would recommend it for all ages. I laughed, I cried, and I would love to read a sequel.

Lafayette, Louisiana. International Cultural Center

We went to be with our friends Miss Emily Neustrom & the Collard Greens play at Grant Street Dance Hall on Friday, June 10, 2011. Can’t wait to return!

Sunday with a great editor, Emily Neustrom

On Sunday, May 15 my husband and I drove to Lafayette, Louisiana to celebrate with my editor Emily Neustrom and her musical Cajun friends and family. Emily and her mom made the quilt HOME GROWN. Her horticulture business is JUBILEE FARMS. Miss Emily & the Collard Greens (Jessie Lalonde, Dave Trainer, Daniel Coolik) regularly play at the Blue Moon Cafe and other fun places in Lafayette and beyond.

My editor Emily Neustrom with her original Louisiana quilt

2011 March Reading

Jency Griffin and I read part of “Transmitting the Links” in New Orleans at Newman School in March. We’re looking forward to returning to read the entire essay for the students.

at the Tennessee Williams Festival

We got our picture taken after the reading Saturday at 1. Mona Lisa and I met decades ago in a poetry class in San Francisco, and we’ve been writing partners ever since.

Reading of Award Winning Essay at Tulane University

On Tuesday, October 12, 2010 at 6:00 pm I will be reading my essay “This Could Not Go Public.”

This is my Gold Medal Faulkner Award Winning Essay. Essay judge Andrei Codrescu wrote,

“The author uses the form of the personal essay to speak about much larger issues. Her perspective is fresh and compassionate. The use of interviews makes this essay more interesting stylistically.”

Amistad Research Center of  Tulane University

Tilton Hall, 6823 St. Charles Avenue

New Orleans, LA.

Click here for more information from Amistad Research Center.

My First Post

Wow. I’ve been writing for years and I never seem to run out of inspiration. Perhaps it is because of constant world development. Nevertheless, it is a true blessing.