WoJo Holdings, LLC Co-Founders Marianne Chester, Stroudsburg, PA Debra S. Jean, Stroudsburg PA and Tom Rhiel, Greenwood Village, CO have published an anthology of personal memoirs by a diverse group of women writers. Kaleidoscopeâ¢ WoJo's Story This project began with three business people deciding to write a book about the challenges that women face in the business world. Through many conversations the intent evolved into exploring the challenges women face in general through personal memoirs. Themes were developed and contests were administered and women writers began submitting their essays. Prize money in the form of $100.00 was offered for the best memoirs for themes such as Advice to Younger Self, Summer Vacation, Coming of Age in the 60s & 70s, Holiday Story, Did That Really Happen and the always open for submissions, Miscellaneous Memoirs. Every writer who submitted to us had the opportunity to have an interview published online, providing them with exposure. If a writer had their own website we would acknowledge it and other social media accounts they may be using. The stories In My Shoes are a culmination of the best essays from our contests and Miscellaneous Memoirs. The writers are a wide cross section of diverse women representing different age groups, geographic locations, ethnicities, backgrounds, and experience. The stories contain a wide range of emotions from the somber to the hilarious and everything in between. What they all contain is heart. What people are saying: By women, for women, strength and grit, you are not alone.

In My Shoes (1) (Kaleidoscope (TM), Reflections on Women's Journeys (TM))

Literature & Fiction

Socarras, Aleida

Lewis, Laura

Almand, Gerri

Tomalin, Chris Fedorka

Burns, Robbie

Strader, Linda

Seguin, Marilyn Weymouth

Burke, Debbie

Short, Kayann

Benjamin, Bari

Hutchinson, Kate

WoJo(TM), Kaleidoscope

Kowalenko, Emma

Lovell, Yvonne

Silvian, Ingrid

Lopez, Jane Kelly Amerson

Reyes, Luisa Kay

Pontius, Amy

Nelson, Wendi

Gillies, Christine

Morales, Nikoleta

Pfeffer, Deborah

Sangster, J. Lauren

Blackman, Tele’ma

Trickel, Mary Marken

Lasker, Adrianne

Jewett, B. J.

Beisner, Natalie

Pauer, Mary

Long, Mindy

Bennett, Diana

Klinger Carol, Carol

Vahe, Clem

Varnadore, Renee

Parlato, Janet

Theiss, Debbie

Dolan, Mary

Riley, Torey Chester

Elliott, Ellis

Welsch, Joanne

Fullett-Christensen, Karen

Chester, Martha J

Houghton, Pam

Essays & Correspondence

BookBaby

In this love story of land and family, Kayann Short explores her farm roots from her grandparents’ North Dakota homesteads to her own Stonebridge Farm, an organic, community-supported farm on the Colorado Front Range where small-scale, local agriculture borrows lessons of the past to cultivate sustainable communities for the future. "Scattered in among musings of local food systems, community action, family history, and current farm realities are clear moments of reflection that demonstrate Short’s acumen as a writer." Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built + Natural Environments "Short's focus on a CSA makes this memoir distinctive from other recent farmrelated nonfiction." Western American Literature Journal "A Bushel’s Worth is my favorite kind of nonfiction. Not only is it about many topics close to my heartgardening, food, familyit is a beautifully told story, and a love story at that, centered around the love of a couple, their love for the land, and a community’s love for a way of life. This book forever changed my perspective and awareness as I 'walk out' in my own garden." Katrina Kittle, author, The Blessings of the Animals "A heartfelt meditation on farm, food, and family. A Bushel’s Worth tells a love story of the land and a life spent caring for it.” Hannah Nordhaus, author, The Beekeeper’s Lament: How One Man and Half a Billion Honeybees Help Feed America Kayann Short shares a passionate and often lyrical account of how she and her husband John took their first brave steps toward revitalizing a small Colorado farm and with it their lives and the community they drew around them. It is an inspiring story, a gift for all of us, both on and off the farm, who are trying to learn how to slow down our frenzied lives so that we may give ourselves to what really matters.” Gregory Spaid, author, Grace: Photographs of Rural America "With a companionable mix of literary and earthy sensibilities, Kayann Short writes with graceful, ferocious attentiveness [and] finds reassurance for herself and her modern family in the old wisdom of the fields.” John Calderazzo, author, Rising Fire: Volcanoes &amp; Our Inner Lives [A] beautifully written and sensually rich ecobiography’ of farm life...A Bushel’s Worth is a loving natural history of a farm, a marriage, and a way of life that has changed interestingly and dramatically over just a few generations.” Jane Shellenberger, author, Organic Gardener’s Companion: Growing Vegetables in the West The book is a substantial meal...as much about growing community as it is about growing food, and it leaves the reader with a generous bushel of instruction and inspiration on both counts.” Susan Becker, Director, Boulder Public Library Oral History Program A Bushel’s Worth: An Ecobiography eloquently depicts humans and nature coexisting and mutually benefiting not only in theory, but in actuality...where people treat each other respectfully as they gently work on and with the land.” Shelly Eberly, National Outings Leader, Sierra Club

A Bushel's Worth: An Ecobiography

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Torrey House Press

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