The first annual village bazaar opens in Fallasburg on Sept. 19 & 20.
Source: Fallasburg bazaar press release
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Fallasburg Today newsletter
Come, cross the Fallasburg covered bridge and step into the past, present and future. Discover the village at its autumn beauty.
Sign up for Fallasburg Today newsletter for the latest news from the Fallasburg village, events, museum tours, maintenance projects and message from the president Ken Tamke. The first annual village bazaar is coming up on Sept. 19th & Sept. 20th from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. There is still time to sign up for merchants and crafters. Contact Tracy at gashtote@yahoo.com
Fallasburg is at its best in autumn covered in beautiful foliage and gentle breeze.
For more information on the village and the historical society go to http://www.fallasburg.org
Fallasburg Covered Bridge
Fallasburg Historical Society
13944 Covered Bridge Road – Lowell, Michigan 49331
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BlogHer conference connects
BlogHer conference in NYC July 17 & 18
By Emma Palova
EW Emma’s Writings
I am sharing this through my new blogger friend Cheryl Stober, a syndicated blogger on the BlogHer platform. She has been blogging for eight years, at a time when I was chasing after stories and yawning at township meetings for print media.
“You gotta cover that,” said the editor also yawning, “It’s our bread and butter you know.”
Among hundreds of posts, Stober caught my attention with her nice piece about getting ready for the conference. I was bummed that I couldn’t go so I literally devoured the article and commented and I got a comment back. And there you go we were friends.
“I hope to meet you at the conference next year,” she wrote. “Follow me on @cherylstober.”
Her article included getting new business cards and clothes for the event. Of course fashion police at these conferences are on their toes.
Today, Stober tweeted she had lunch with my favorite Glee star, Gwyneth Paltrow. who is a keynote speaker at the conference. I am jealous, no just kidding.
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Good news
Good news spreads fast. Read about my discovery of BlogHer, a publishing network for women bloggers under the umbrella of http://www.sheknowsmedia.com
Hello to all,
I have probably the best news in a long time since I established the Emma Blogs, LLC last year in July. Prior to that I connected my EW blog into the Gatehouse Media, a 15-million reader market.
Now, again in July I found out about a great platform for women bloggers from a Monday’s post by Michelle W. “Heading to BlogHer ’15, so are we.”
See link:
Well I checked out BlogHer and found a perfect fit for my Emma Blogs,LLC. Under the umbrella of http://www.sheknowsmedia.com, the platform has a social media reach of 100,000 women across the country. Wow, I could not believe the great content, the great women. It was just an overall positive vibe.
Emma Blogs are now a part of the BlogHer network.
So, I submitted two posts, Coach Leigh Ann Dickey inspires and Women Inspired…
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Coach Leigh Ann Dickey
Heading to BlogHer ’15? So are we!
I wish I could go.
BlogHer ’15, one of the biggest and best annual conferences for bloggers, lands in New York City later this week, from July 16th through the 18th. You’ll find hundreds of passionate bloggers, workshops to hone every aspect of your blogging, incredible keynote speakers like Ava DuVernay and Gwyneth Paltrow — and us!
At our Happiness Lounge in the expo hall, you’ll be able to get one-on-one help with your WordPress sites. Staff from across Automattic will also be leading mini-workshops on some of the topics you care most about, and our “WordPress Insiders” panels bring multiple WordPress.com staffers together for informal panels to give you a range of takes on everything from tools to traffic.
The WordPress.com booth hums with activity at BlogHer ’14.
Interested? Here’s the complete schedule:
Friday, July 17
- 10 AM: WordPress Insiders: Our Favorite Dashboard Tools
- 11 AM: Express Yourself: Quick Tips for Customizing Your Site
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Happy Independence Day
Writer’s Digest competition
Writer’s Digest competition deadline is coming up
By Emma Palova
EW Emma’s Writings
Lowell, MI -June 5th is the deadline for the major annual Writer’s Digest contest. I am entering this year with the following pieces in two different categories. The first one is non-fiction article that deeply touched me, “Hiker Babe walks in memory of daughter.”
This article is about a woman whom I have known for a long time. Her name is Gail Lowe. Lowe is a retired nurse, who has hiked the Appalachian Trail twice and most recently the North Country Trail in memory of her daughter Becka.
Lowe’s only fear remains that she won’t be able to hike anymore because of aging. Becka’s fear before she passed from breast cancer was not to be forgotten. So, her mother immortalized her with the 4,600-mile long hike through seven Midwest states. She got sick on the trail and turned 65.
The second piece I am submitting is fiction based in reality, “Twice into the same river.”
There is a saying that you cannot step twice into the same river, meaning that everything flows with time.
Well, I have. First, in the late eighties when I took care of my grandparents until their death. Then, I left Czech Republic for the USA.
Now, I am facing the same destiny with my brother who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia. He can and cannot take care of himself. He refuses to take medication and is very angry most of the time.
I fear that I am not going to be able to handle him. The unknown ahead is so overwhelming that’s why I am writing about it to ease the burden.
I will be stepping twice into the same river, only some 25 years later.
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Mother’s Day
Two sisters and mothers still at war
By Emma Palova
EW Emma’s Writings
Writer’s note:
This is part of the 200 Posts & beyond series
Today is a big day. As I write to the morning chirping of the birds, I still have my feet wet from watering the flowers for my mother, for Mother’s Day.
My dog Haryk passed in September of last year. So, I don’t have him anymore. It’s bizarre how many things have changed in one year. I’ve made a lot of posts since April of last year. I had around 100 posts, now I am close to 300 posts.
Mistakes. Yes, tons of them. Success, too. I’ve established my company Emma Blogs, LLC in August of last year. I got my eyes fixed with Dr. Verdier.
It’s May 9th, it’s my birthday. I was born on the national holiday in former Czechoslovakia. On that day, the nation’s capital Prague, the mother of all cities, was freed from the Nazi occupation by the Soviet Army. That was the end of World War II.
Many years later, I was born in the wee hours at 4 a.m. to parents Ella & Vaclav Konecny. My mom woke up to the cracking noises of fireworks announcing the anniversary of the victory.
“I thought it was war again, but then I realized those were fireworks celebrating your birth,” she said to me this morning as she wished me a happy birthday. “The whole nation celebrated.”
Mom says that to me every year, as the nature too celebrates the awakening after long winter.
“The nature blossoms on your birthday,” she says. “You always had the day off and a parade.”
The above note is one of the many reasons why I dedicated the memoir “Greenwich Meridian where East meets west” to my mother.
200 Posts & beyond
This post is inspired by Anton Chekhov’s “Three Sisters” and the constant friction that I have witnessed between sisters in this world.
Mom Ella and aunt Anna
As I watch people drop like flies around me, I realize how time is going by fast. I like the inscription on the clock in the living room, “Tempus fugit.” That’s why I bought that pendulum clock as one of the first things when I arrived on this continent in 1989 for $110. Not that I had that kind of money. I just wanted the clock so bad, that I probably borrowed money for it. It announces the time by boldly striking every full and half hour. My husband Ludek still has to wind it by hand much like the clock that the in-laws had at home in the old country.
“They probably wouldn’t even let us know if Anna’s dead,” mom said about her sister.
Well, I think she is right. There is probably no one left to let us know. That’s all part of the emigration package that I am writing about in the memoir “Greenwich Meridian.”
To be continued as part of the ongoing series 200 Posts & beyond
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