[Occupymendocino] Fw: Peace activist author to speak at Gallery Bookshop this Friday, 9/21

[Agnes Woolsey]

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Donna Love, Author and Peace Activist, to Speak at Gallery Bookshop



Topics include her three published books, all written since turning 80, and strategies for writing memoirs.



Author Donna Rankin Love,  born with crippled feet, has walked 5000 miles for peace. She will speak at Gallery Bookshop in Mendocino on Friday, September 21, at 6:30 p.m. Through her three books, all published since her 80th birthday, she will inspire her audience.



Her first book, Tell Me a Story, started as a Christmas gift for her family. The 42 short stories comprise a memoir. Love discovered that  memories and short stories are a perfect match – and writing memoirs can be less intimidating. Love reminds us, “You don’t have to start at the beginning.”



To Make the House Complete chronicles 14 years as Love moves into four houses and a marriage, each needing work. Ranging from two casas in Mexico to a farm house in Oregon to a beach cottage in Capitola, California, plus a 10-year second marriage, she recounts her efforts to make them, and her life, better. In the end, she’s keeping the cottage.



Walking for Our Lives  tells of three historic peace marches of the 1980s totaling over 5,000 miles. The first involved walking 3,700 miles from Los Angeles to Washington, DC in the Great Peace March of 1986. The following year, 230 Americans landed in Leningrad (St Petersburg) and walked with 230 Soviets to Moscow. Then Soviets traveled for a peace walk in the United States. Love says, “I grew from a complacent homemaker into a passionate peacemaker, and into a life where anything is possible and one person does make a difference.”



Donna Love believes, “Writing memoir contributes to personal peace, peace within families, and in communities.” She will discuss memoir writing, read excerpts from Walking for Our Lives, and sign purchased books. 



Media contact:

Donna Rankin Love

831 479 9857

lovedonna at sbcglobal.net

donnarankinlove.vpweb.com




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