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Weekly Goals for 11/08/09…she’ll be comin’ round the mountain when she comes…

Hi EveryBuddy,
I’ve been a bit remiss in posting the Weekly Goals, but I do so love this thread that here I am, better late than never, as they say…..

For next week, I’d like to:

empty old email addys out of my in basket
empty 25 extra pics out of my camera
call to update my contacts on my Press Release list

add the revenue sharing button for my BRAND NEW Blog Talk Radio Show to my website, blogs and social networks (I’m really excited about producing my own Renewable Energy show!!)

Schedule my first guest for my own Renewable Energy show on Blog Talk Radio!!

Send Steve my list of guests for my upcoming PIVTR Radio shows (can you believe I’m already booked ahead from Jan- July of 2010 for that show?????) YES!

Upload at least 10 docs into the WBO grant writing database.

Confirm the details for my interview with Sharon Kleyne on 11/23/09.

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The FireWalker Flare- An Environmental and Renewable Energy Solutions Talk Radio Show

Join Diane Tegarden as she engages Environmental and Renewable Energy Experts on the second Tuesday of each month at

10am PST/11am MST/ 12 noon CST/ 1pm EST for a half-hour of riveting interviews on environmental problems and their solutions through Renewable Energy technologies.

On November 10th my guest will be Shawn Alvandi of LA Solar Energy, to discuss the bright future of solar power and environmentally friendly businesses.

The call in number is # 712-338-8710 and the PIN is 618#.
Visit the home page at: http://www.internetvoicesradio.com/Arch-Firewalker.htm

To read my environmental articles please visit:
http://www.examiner.com/x-14744-LA-Renewable-Energy-Examiner

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That should be enough to keep me out of trouble,
Hip Hip Huzzah THE BARDS!

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Announcing 2 new radio talk shows in November

The Storytellers, Poets and Bards of the World join Diane Tegarden, poetess and author, as she hosts monthly poetry readings on Internet Voices Radio with her gregarious guests!

CALL IN# 712-338-8710, PIN 618#

WHEN: Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

TIME: 2:30pm PST/ 3:30pm MST/ 4:30pm CST/ 5:30pm EST
 
(Please use the link given below for international time calculations)
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/

Join us for a charming half-hour of unique poetry and author’s chat as Diane and her guests read you their poetry and discuss the larger social issues touching their lives.
Link to shows: http://www.internetvoicesradio.com/Arch-DianeTegarden.htm
(A chat room is available during the show!)
OUR GREGARIOUS GUESTS on November 3rd are: Alice Shapiro, Diane Tegarden, Lillian Brummet, and Cheryl Bousquet.

Grab a cup of fair trade coffee or tea, sit back and relax. Take this break from your everyday world to enjoy the new vistas brought to you by these fresh, original poets!

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The FireWalker Flare-An Environmental and Renewable Energy Solutions Talk Radio Show

Join Diane Tegarden as she engages Environmental and Renewable Energy Experts on the second Tuesday of each month
at 10am PST/11am MST/ 12 noon CST/ 1pm EST for a half-hour of riveting interviews on environmental problems and their solutions through Renewable Energy technologies.

The call in number is # 712-338-8710 and the PIN is 618#. 
Visit the home page at: http://www.internetvoicesradio.com/Arch-Firewalker.htm

On November 10th my guest will be Shawn Alvandi of LA Solar Energy, to discuss the bright future of solar power and environmentally friendly business. 

To read more environmental articles please visit:
http://www.examiner.com/x-14744-LA-Renewable-Energy-Examiner

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OCTOBER is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month

OCTOBER is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month

Jeanine Swatton, radio show host of “Swatton Live – Preventing Abuse Against Women” will interview Diane Tegarden about her experience of being a woman in an abusive marriage

on Wednesday 10/21 at 6pm PST/7pm MST/8pm CST/9pm EST.

The call in telephone number is (347) 994-3550.
The link to the show is http://www.blogtalkradio.com/SwattonLive

We’ll also be discussing how to escape a battering spouse, join us so you can pass on this vital information to other women who may need it.

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Please pass this notice on to anyone who you think may need the information.

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Gritty Interviews Oct 21 & 22nd, not for the faint hearted!

OCTOBER is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month!

Jeanine Swatton, radio show host of “Swatton Live – Preventing Abuse Against Women” will interview Diane Tegarden about her experience of being a woman in an abusive marriage

on Wednesday 10/21

at 6pm PST/7pm MST/8pm CST/9pm EST.

The call in telephone number is (347) 994-3550.

The link to the show is http://www.blogtalkradio.com/SwattonLive

We’ll also be discussing how to escape a battering spouse, join us so you can pass on this vital information to other women who may need it.

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Marsha Walker, Author and Publisher will interview Diane Tegarden on her radio show “Together Again” about the release of Diane’s groundbreaking sci-fi novel “Anti-Vigilante and The Rips in Time”!

On Thursday October 22nd at 10am PST/11am MST/12 noon CST/1pm EST

CALL IN# (347) 994-1510

LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/LWL-Radio

Join us for a rousing stroll through the world of publishing! ************************************************************************************************** May You Never Thirst!

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Spoken Word and Interview announcements

Come one, come all to the greatest show on Earth….your fellow Wordmeisters will be reading their poetry to you!

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Premier publisher with Nightengale Press Valerie Connelly will interview Diane Tegarden on her Global Talk Radio show “Calling All Authors”

on Tuesday September 22nd

at 2pm PST/3pm MST/4pm CST/5pm EST.

The call in number is 218-339-4300 and the PIN is 1002522#

The link to the show is: http://www.globaltalkradio.com/shows/callingallauthors

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I’m inviting YOU to a very special spoken word event:

The Storytellers, Poets and Bards of the World join Diane Tegarden, poetess and author, as she hosts monthly poetry readings on Internet Voices Radio with her gregarious guests!

CALL IN# 712-432-0080 PIN 1085212#

WHEN: Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

TIME: 2:30pm PST/3:30pm MST/4:30pm CST/5:30pm EST

(Please use the links given below for international time calculations)
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/
http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc
http://www.timeanddate.com/

Join us for a charming half-hour of unique poetry and author’s chat as Diane and her guests read you their poetry and discuss the larger social issues touching their lives.

Link to shows: http://www.internetvoicesradio.com/Arch-DianeTegarden.htm (A chat room is available during the show!)
OUR GREGARIOUS GUESTS on October 6th are: Ken Austin, Diane Tegarden, Marva Collins-Bush, Manohar Bhatia, and Zenobia

Grab a cup of fair trade coffee or tea, sit back and relax. Take this break from your everyday world to enjoy the new vistas brought to you by these fresh, original poets!

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May You Never Thirst!

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weekly goals for 08/23/09….the last week of August

Dear Readers, Here’s what I’ve been up to and my plans for next week.

My Ta-Dahssss from last week:

Had a Fabulous Radio interview with Marty White, host of Poetic Monthly Talk Radio Show on Tuesday August 18th about my new book release “Anti-Vigilante and The Rips in Time”. If you’d like to hear it, click on:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/poeticmonthly

Focused on health-
I’m tending my little organic garden; the tomatoes, cilantro, peaches, beets and basil are thriving, but my new cucumbers haven’t come out of the ground yet.

I’m working on reducing the calorie intake of my daily diet.- uh, this isn’t going so well-

Went to CURVES only two times this week, dang it!

Focused on writing:
I’m asking everyone I know, from all over the country and ALL OVER THE WORLD, to ask your local bookstores and libraries if they are carrying “Anti-Vigilante and The Rips in Time”. This will alert the stores that my book is now available to be distributed and that the public is interested in reading the book. You don’t even have to buy a copy, but can help me create a “buzz” about it so that the stores order a few copies to stock on their shelves!!

Wrote one more article for the Examiner.com this week about a free webinar that will discuss measuring your carbon footprint. If you’d like to read it come on over to: http://www.examiner.com/x-14744-LA-Renewable-Energy-Examiner  *While you’re there, feel free to leave a comment or subscribe to my column to keep up with the latest news on renewable energy.*
Focused on business:
Began promotion campaign on “Anti-Vigilante and The Rips in Time” it’s NOW available at http://www.amazon.com! Wrote three more press releases to send out.

My brand new radio show, “The FireWalker Flare-An Environmental and Renewable Energy Solutions Talk Radio Show” is on the SECOND TUESDAY of the month, and I’ve signed on Pablo Paster, a Sustainability Engineer, for the Sept 8th show.

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My To Do’s for this coming week:

Focus on health:
Go to CURVES three times this week.
Clean up the backyard, tend my organic garden and rearrange wreath on front door.

Focus on writing:
Write one article for the WBO (Women Business Owners) Magazine.

Write one more article for the Examiner.com and PasadenaNow.com, this one will be about LEED buildings located in Pasadena.

Start to compose my next newsletter “The FireWalker Flare” to send out to my mailing lists and networks.

****** IF YOU’D LIKE TO BE HIGHLIGHTED in my next issue of “The FireWalker Flare”, send me a 150 word blurb TODAY and a jpg of your book and it’ll go in the next issue. If you don’t have a book, you can send an announcement for your business or upcoming event and a jpg of your business logo or one of yourself. The spots will fill up fast, so don’t delay!*****

Focus on business:
Contact 2 book stores about book signings, send out more press releases, and post announcement on six more networks about the release of “Anti-Vigilante and The Rips in Time”.

Promote all my upcoming interviews and shows for the coming weeks, here they are:

*********************Event Announcements****************

I’m inviting YOU to a very special spoken word event:

The Storytellers, Poets and Bards of the World join Diane Tegarden, poetess and author, as she hosts monthly poetry readings on Internet Voices Radio with her gregarious guests!

CALL IN# 712-432-0080   PIN 1085212#

WHEN: Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

TIME: 2:30pm PST/ 3:30pm MST/ 4:30pm CST/ 5:30pm EST
 
(Please use the links given below for international time calculations)
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/
 
Join us for a charming half-hour of unique poetry and author’s chat as Diane and her guests read you their poetry and discuss the larger social issues touching their lives.
Link to shows: http://www.internetvoicesradio.com/Arch-DianeTegarden.htm

OUR GREGARIOUS GUESTS for Sept 1st are: Ken Austin, Diane Tegarden, Marva Collins-Bush, Sage Mora 

Grab a cup of fair trade coffee or tea, sit back and relax. Take this break from your everyday world to enjoy the new vistas brought to you by these fresh, original poets!

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The FireWalker Flare-An Environmental and Renewable Energy Solutions Talk Radio Show

Join Diane Tegarden as she engages Environmental and Renewable Energy Experts on Tuesday September 8th
at 10am PST/11am MST/ 12 noon CST/ 1pm EST for a half-hour of riveting interviews on environmental problems and their solutions through Renewable Energy technologies.

The call in number is # 913-227-1219 and the PIN number 241734#
The link to our home page is http://internetvoicesradio.com/Arch-Firewalker.htm

My guest for the September 8th show will be Pablo Paster, a Sustainability Engineer who uses his unique background to answer readers’ sustainability-related questions on his online column “Ask Pablo”. Pablo is a Sustainability Engineer and VP at ClimateCHECK.

To read some of my environmental articles you can visit:
http://www.examiner.com/x-14744-LA-Renewable-Energy-Examiner
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May You Never Thirst! Diane Tegarden

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Announcing a brand new radio talk show about the environment!

 The FireWalker Flare-An Environmental and Renewable Energy Solutions Talk Radio Show is proud to introduce Diane Tegarden, as she engages Environmental and Renewable Energy Experts on Tuesday August 11th at 10am PST/11am MST/ 12 noon CST/ 1pm EST for a half-hour of riveting interviews on environmental problems and their solutions through Renewable Energy technologies.

The call in number is # 913-227-1219 and the PIN number 241734#

The link to our home page is http://internetvoicesradio.com/Arch-Firewalker.htm

My guests for the August 11th show will be Jo Ann Keirns and John Skinner of the Green Mechanical Council, a non-profit organization dedicated to educating contractors, field technicians and industry leaders about creating and maintaining environmentally sound residential and commercial systems.

To read some of my environmental articles you can visit: http://www.examiner.com/x-14744-LA-Renewable-Energy-Examiner

 ************************************************************************************************** Marty White, host of Poetic Monthly Talk Radio Show will interview Diane Tegarden about her brand new book release of “Anti-Vigilante and The Rips in Time” On Tuesday August 18th

TIME: 3:30pm PST/4:30pm MST/5:30pm CST/6:30pm EST

CALL IN# 347-324-5221 or join us in the chat room at: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/poeticmonthly

Call in and make a request, if ya’ like! Energetically Yours, Diane Tegarden

Author of  ”Getting OUT of Limbo-A Self Help Divorce Book for Women”;”Light Through Shuttered Window- A Compendium of my Poetry”;”Anti-Vigilante and The Rips in Time”- all my books are available at http://www.firewalkerpublications.com

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words you’ve made up or coined for your novels/poems or writing…

Dear Word Wranglers,
with the upcoming publication of my sci-fi book “Anti-Vigilante and The Rips in Time”, I’ve got a lot on my mind…like putting together a GLOSSARY for it!

You see, the future will bring new ideas, people and objects into play and I wanted to share just a few of the words I created for my novel.

Here is a brief taste of what’s to come…..

Senselles- people who came from the past with all their senses intact (unlike the people in the future who live via Virtual Reality Programming). Senselles “sell their senses” or sensory input to the BayBays, or lower classes of workers on Terrax.

MagicoMathematicians- the future wizards of computing, these people are part Magician/part Mathematical geniuses.

scattershowers- The atmosphere of Terrax is a hurricane of Coriolis winds and deadly scattershowers, composed of toxic metals formed into whip-like threads kilometers long.

BayBays- the lower classes of workers on Terrax.

Terrax- the Crystal Planet, (Earth, millions of years in the future)

Now it’s your turn to share the words you’ve coined while writing!

Energetically Yours, Diane Tegarden
“Getting OUT of Limbo-A Self Help Divorce Book for Women”;”Light Through
Shuttered Window- A Compendium of my Poetry”;”Anti-Vigilante and The
Rips in Time”- are available at http://www.firewalkerpublications.com

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Anti-Vigilante and the Rips in Time to be published in July!!

I’m very proud to announce that I’m working with Cindy Clark on producing my sci-fi novel “Anti-Vigilante and the Rips in Time”! She’s editing and designing the book, then it’ll be in the hands of Kristine Sheehan, my book cover designer. They are both members of Women Business Owners (I’ve been in the organization since 2006 and know their excellent work and fair prices), so I have complete trust that my team will make this book my best ever.

It’s all so exciting, I want “Anti-Vigilante and the Rips in Time” to go to the top!! It should be out by July 1st and I can’t wait!!!

To The Dance of Life!

Energetically Yours, Diane Tegarden

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31 Days of Notable Women- Frida Kahlo- painter/artist

Frida Kahlo (1907- 1954) was a Mexican painter/writer, suffered over 30 operations over a lifetime due to a serious bus accident when she was only 18 years old.

 

The following is a first person presentation that I gave as part of a show Joy Judy Jones and I recorded, which is available to download from my website at www.firewalkerpublications.com.

 

I was born Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderon July 6, 1907 in Coyoacan, a suburb of Mexico City, but I always celebrate it on July 7th. I had polio as a child, which allowed me to build great patience with the slow healing processes of the body. That’s when I became fascinated with the human body, not just as a tool to serve me, but as a study in the complexity and wonder that is in its functioning.

 

It would surprise most people to know I was 15 and entered into the pre-med program at the National Preparatory School before the bus accident. I was 18 (1925) when the accident changed broke my body and my virginity, and changed the course of my life forever.

 

It has always been a mixture of my mother’s love of Mexico and all her bright colors, her starkness and tenderness of her Catholic/mestiza heritage combined with my father’s love of photography, catching life in images of black and white, his German/Austrian/Hungarian blood contributing to my love of science and medicine.

 

Life has been the grist for the mill of my creativity, so my paintings reflect it all, sex and sorrow, pain and laughter, nothing escapes my eye or my art.

 

 

I fell in love with Diego when I met him in 1922, he was painting a mural for the National Preparatory School where I was enrolled and we were married in 1929 (I had just turned 22).

 

After the accident I had to withdraw from medical prep school because I was laid up in bed for such a long convalescence. I got so bored, not being able to go anywhere that my father brought me paints and paper, pens and chalk, he opened up my sick room window and said look at the beautiful day out, paint what you see, what you feel, paint everything.

And I did, starting with my crippled right foot, which is my deepest enemy and oldest companion.

 

I miscarried my only child in July 1932 Diego was out carousing until the early hours, when I needed him he was gone with his whores. I’m glad I’ll never know which one it was or I’d be in jail for murder. Anyways, I was alone that night and was having such back pains, I couldn’t think of what to do, so I prayed and prayed, but around midnight I started bleeding out, so much blood. I knew, but I didn’t want to look. I knew I had lost our precious child, but there was nothing I could do. I went to sleep feeling as cold as if I was outside without any clothes on, I thought it would be the last thing I felt, I thought my life was flowing out of me then. But the next morning Diego found me and got the doctor. I lived. That’s all.

 

My first solo exhibition was at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York in 1938. Although I will always be grateful to El Norte, it will always hurt me a little that I had to leave the country of my birth in order to attain any recognition for my art.

 

The betrayal that hurt the most was when Diego slept with my sister Cristina, after we took her into our house because her husband was beating her. I sometimes wish I had never taken her in, but I should have known better. It wasn’t really her fault. Diego could never resist the attraction of a woman he hadn’t yet bedded. Finally I couldn’t take his infidelities and in 1934 we got separated/divorced, but later, when the pain of our separation far outweighed the pain of his wandering eye, I took him back and in 1940 we remarried. It was fate that I would love him until the moment I died. I can’t be sorry for that.”

 

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Background Sources Cited:

General biographical information from: http://www.fridakahlo.com/bio.shtml

The Diary of Frida Kahlo-An Intimate Self Portrait. Introduction by Carlos Fuentes. Chronology, pg 288.Abrams, New York, NY.

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