31 Days of Notable Women- Lisa Gansky, partnership marketer

Lisa Gansky, author of The Mesh, is a marketect and “impact junky” with a strong interest in breaking the edges of formerly happy business models and bringing together not-so-likely characters in the form of new offerings, teams and partnerships.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Gansky

31 Days of Notable Women- Laurie Colwin, Hall of Fame novelist

Laurie Colwin (June 14, 1944 – October 24, 1992) was born in Manhattan, New York City, and grew up in Lake Ronkonkoma, on Long Island, Philadelphia and Chicago, the second child of Estelle Colwin (née Woolfson) and Peter Colwin. In Philadelphia, she attended the Cheltenham High School, which inducted her posthumously into their Hall of Fame in 1999.  Colwin is the author of five novels.

Source: http://www.amazon.com/Laurie-Colwin/e/B000APXVR4

31 Days of Notable Women- Krys Freeman, women in green economic dev

Krys Freeman is a writer, viral media strategist and activist. A child of the digital age, she likes to be thought of as a web 2.0 evangelist. By day, Krys serves as the Web Project Manager for GreenBiz Group.

Source: http://www.greenbiz.com/bio/bLaKtivist

31 Days of Notable Women- Kathleen Jessie Raine, British poet

Kathleen Jessie Raine was born in London in 1908, where she grew up; taking on a number of unsatisfactory jobs. Through one of her later jobs she met the nephew of the Indian mystic Rama Coomaraswamy Tambimuttu, who invited her to contribute to his new magazine, Poetry London, she did of course, and soon developed a lifelong passion for all things Indian.

Source: http://www.poemhunter.com/kathleen-jessie-raine/

31 Days of Notable Women-Katie Fehrenbacher, women in green economic development

Katie Fehrenbacher,  Senior Writer,  Greentech Editor,  GigaOm

Fehrenbacher has been a reporter covering technology for close to a decade, and has covered green technology for the past five years.  She is a Senior Writer and Features Editor for GigaOM. Previously she was a reporter for Red Herring, an editor at Engadget and a reporter for the Yomiuri Shimbun.

Source: http://pro.gigaom.com/members/katiefehren/profile

31 Days of Notable Women-Flonzie Brown-Wright, author and lecturer

Flonzie (Goodloe) Brown-Wright became the first black woman to be elected County registrar. She is now an author and lecturer.

She appeared in the movie “STANDING ON MY SISTERS’ SHOULDERS”, a powerful documentary that reveals a missing chapter in our nation’s record of the Civil Rights movement. It depicts the movement in Mississippi during the 1950 and 60s from the point of view of the courageous women who lived it and emerged as its grassroots leaders. Their living testimony offers a window into a unique moment when the founders’ promise of freedom and justice passed from rhetoric to reality for all Americans. A film every American should see and never forget.

Source: http://www.sisters-shoulders.org/heroines.html

31 Days of Notable Women- Isabella V. Crawford, Canadian poet

Isabella Valancy Crawford (25 December 1850 – 12 February 1887) was an Irish-born Canadian writer and poet. She was one of the first Canadians to make a living as a freelance writer.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_Valancy_Crawford

31 Days of Notable Women- Nora Ephron, director/producer

Nora Ephron (May 19, 1941 – June 26, 2012) was an American filmmaker, director, producer, screenwriter, novelist, playwright, journalist, author, and blogger. To read more about this amazing woman, go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nora_Ephron

The World Water Wars (Anti-Vigilante and The Rips in Time)

I’ve written an unusual science fiction novel “Anti-Vigilante and The Rips in Time”.  Creating my own world, peoples and language, the book is a “preventable vision of the future” with its hooks deep into renewable energy and the impending World Water Wars.  The science in my book utilizes ocean energy and photovoltaics to power their daily world. People from the past become the Gods of the Future as they appear through the Rips in Time.

You can find “Anti-Vigilante and the Rips in Time” at Amazon.com today, just follow this link: http://www.amazon.com/Anti-Vigilante-Rips-Time-Diane-Tegarden/dp/0974536911/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1350751953&sr=1-2&keywords=Anti-Vigilante

Acrostic poetry- no I’m not mad at anyone!

An acrostic poem is one where the first letter of every line spells a word, when read in a straight line vertically. The poem should demonstrate or define that word. My poem is a one word description of myself, called “Maverick”.

Majestic. Alone. I’ll go my own way,
Avoiding leaders and followers, what they may say.
Vested now in my solitude and sweet silence,
Envy and conflict, a rare occurrence.
Reaching beyond my own limits, no one judging why,
Incorrigible, a true radical, with authority I’ll vie.
Can you understand my desire to be completely free?
Know that this solitary journey, is the real me.

Contribute your own acrostic here, if ya like!