Stories From the Heart II

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• Susan Wittig Albert. Writing From Life: Telling the Soul's Story, A Dilly of a Death, Indigo Dying, and other books from the China Bayles Herbal Mystery series. All proceeds go to benefit the Story Circle Network.

• Jill Bartel, Desert Lightning. Decorated journals; handmade bookmarks; handmade trinket boxes, inspirational plaques, and beaded jewelry with a writing/book theme.

• Barbara Youngblood Carr. Dreamdancing With Ancestors, Counting Places in the Presence of Our Ancestors, Singularities: Writing From the Center of the Edge, Chicken Fried, Roaches Is In!, and The Texas Poetry Calendar.

• Jodi Davis, Sentient Solutions. The Heart's Gift is a woman's memoir of letters written to her daughter, who was born with a severe congenital heart malformation from which no child had ever survived.

• Deborah DePorter, C.H.A.N.G.E. Associates. Women, Careers, and Chronic Illness: How to Live a Purposeful Life (to be published by 7/1). Companion workbook.

• Mary Boyd Faloon, Golden R Press. The Fullness of Love is a collection of intimate stories of the gifts a Down's syndome son brings to his family, community, and friends.

• Pat Flathouse. A Priceless Legacy: Writing the Stories of Your Family History is a guide to collecting and writing family stories, written by SCN's Austin OWL-Circle Memoir Program Director.

• Cynthia Green, Thema Design. Editing and book design services has helped many women bring their memoirs to print. A women-owned business, Thema has a special affinity for women who are unveiling their stories. Bookmarks, 2004 calendars, and a booklet of Borderlands book reviews.

• Linda Lipinski, The RichLin Group. A Legacy To Remember Album is designed to help you leave to your heirs your beliefs, wisdom, and values (also known as an ethical will), combined with photo and scrapbook memories, and genealogy records.

• Linda Joy Myers, Memories and Memoirs. Becoming Whole: Writing Your Healing Story demonstrates the power of a memoir to bridge, integrate, and heal the past, and offers proven lessons in the art and craft of memoir-writing. Bibliography of writing resources and published memoirs, and a special section for therapists who apply memoir-writing in their own practices.

• Mary Jane Nordgren, TAWK Press. Books, including Logging Tales Too Human to be Fiction, The Biography of Ivan U. Marble, and Cup of Comfort for Women.

• Patti Pfeiffer, Destiny Publications. Bearing the Big H: A Hormonal Journey on the Hysterectomy Highway, and Barreness Bears, stuffed chenille bears with a bandage on their tummies and holding a hormone bottle. An upbeat account for any woman who has had, or is about to undergo a hysterectomy.

• EJ Phillips. Woman: What She Has Done With Where She Has Been is a collection of stories of contemporary women who have overcome adversity, wiped their tears, and moved forward to live fulfilling lives.

• PJ Pierce. Let Me Tell You What I've Learned: Texas Wisewomen Speak: twenty-five Texas women share the wisdom they've acquired through living unconventional lives.

• Donna Remmert. The Littlest Big Kid and The Jitterbug Girl are memoirs about growing up in the 1940s and 1950s in mid-America.

• Story Circle Network. PO Box 500127, Austin TX 78750, 512-454-9833, storycircle@storycircle.org. Proceeds from all sales go to the Story Circle Network. Discoveries (a blank journal especially for women); Your Life, Your Story: A Book to Help You Capture Your Memories (a memoir guide for women 60+); With Courage and Common Sense: Memoirs from the Older Women's Legacy Circles; Story Circle tee-shirts; A Word from the Heart notecards.

• Beck Whitehead. Handmade paper and books by a nationally recognized paper artist, also chair of Paper & Book Arts Department at Southwest School of Arts and Crafts.

• Janie York, Janie Lynn Textiles. Printing kit, designed to reproduce photos or text on fabric, wall hangings with quotations, wall hangings designed for attaching family memorabilia (button collections, jewelry, photos and documents).