Happy Hallowed Holidays…
As many of us celebrate Christmas with traditions born out of history, theology and family, let us take a moment to recognize others have differing traditions born out of history, theology and family.
My family will be gathering – adjusting schedules to accommodate work practices – but relishing the time set aside to give the gifts of love, to remember those no longer with us and to savor favorite dishes brought by one and all to the family table.
It’s a glorious time recalling people and experiences of old, whether it’s peering in the old-fashioned department store windows at holiday scenes, active with characters and trains and old-timey trucks. It’s a glorious time taking long rides through town to enjoy the lights of homes near and far. In fact, it’s a glorious time and I wish you all the best of the holiday you celebrate!
Carmen
Christmas Gifts
With the ease of a click and the thoughtfulness of one who knows them well, you can give a gift that lasts, that inspires, that suggests the awe of accomplishment…THE STORIES OF TEXAS WOMEN!
While supplies last, a special bargain…A set of the two books for $44.99 including shipping, autograph and personalization.
Deadline December 18th for Christmas Delivery.
For the Writer on Your Gift List…a Gift certificate.
How about a Christmas story – historical fiction – about a time in Texas before Texas was Texas…
In fact, it could be true, according to the history of the time and place and primary figure…but it’s fiction…it starts like this…
Angelina
By Carmen Goldthwaite
On a dark night, long after autumn harvest, the moon soared over tall, long leaf pines. Angelina’s moccasins rustled through stiff and brown grass on her way to her son’s. Her breath punctuated the air with puffs of clouds at each step. She paused at the footpath to her people’s “great mound,” a spiritual center for Caddos. Here, she was the “keeper of the Mound” a title earned because she could converse and interpret the languages, Spanish and French as
well as her own Caddo. And she welcomed strangers in the long-standing tradition of her people…
“Carmen is a national treasure of Texas. When she critiques my writing, I come away feeling proud of my efforts and doing more and better are within reach.”
Hank B., Dallas“Going to Writers’ Circle is like going to “Cheers,” (the older sit com)
Dr. Felicia W of Pittsburgh, PA
COMING EARLY 2025
Exciting News!
A New Writing Workshop AND a New Writers’ Circle
It’s topical. It’s “Spiritual Writing,” which means it’s about ideas and studies, beliefs and experiences, each person’s individual faith path.
Dates and more will be announced after the holidays (who has time now, right?)
But wanted you to know what I’m thinkin’ and dreamin’ about to apply my training and experience as a chaplain, as a spiritual wanderer, as well as a writer and teacher toward writing about spiritual matters, individual faith journeys that may or may not subscribe to particular religions. It’s a matter of being respectful.
Next Writers’ Circles start the week of January 6, 2025
Register now for Circles starting Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Six-week class sessions of information and feedback, $125.
REGISTER NOW
Not been before? You’ll find the E-book, Let’s Write…and Have Fun by Carmen Goldthwaite helpful for your first class. Buy Now
Contact me for more information: carmen@carmengoldthwaite.com.
Teacher
Writer’s Circles
TUESDAY night, 7 pm meets in person at my West Fort Worth home and also Zoom when folks can’t attend in person, September 17, 2024
WEDNESDAY, starting September 18, 2024 and the afternoon “hybrid” (part Zoom, part in person) will start at 1:30 pm.
THURSDAY, starting September 19, 2024 It’s an all Zoom meeting that starts 7 pm
Teaching is a wonderful experience
AUTHOR
GIFTS FOR TEXANA LOVERS & FOR THE WRITER IN YOUR LIFE…
Carmen Goldthwaite is the top-selling author of Texas’ heroic women, their stories: true adventures of Texas women across the centuries and the landscape of the State and the Republic. The 15-year research and writing project resulted in Texas Dames: Sassy and Savvy Women Throughout Lone Star History and Texas Ranch Women: Three Centuries of Mettle and Moxie. Her stories of these women have appeared in anthologies and magazines, such as: FORT WORTH TEXAS, PERSIMMON HILL, Wild West, True West, TCU Alumnae, etc..
Carmen Goldthwaite – Author, Teacher, Storyteller – packs a lifetime of writing into creative writing classes she teaches, the Texas Tales she spins and books and articles she pens.
A GIFT FOR THE WRITERS ON YOUR LIST
Gift Certificates are available for those with a budding writer on their gift list. ($75 EACH Or 15% OFF FOR TWO OR MORE WORKSHOPS! )
Translating decades of experience in writing and publishing, Carmen passes along her knowledge to writers through small group Writers’ Circles, individually, classes, conferences and workshops. For 12 years, men and women have knocked on the door of her writing place, her home, “Scribblers Sanctuary,” as nicknamed by early students. Some of her SMU and TCU students still come back from time to time for a “refresher” or a manuscript edit.
Autographed Books make a great gift!
With the ease of a click and the thoughtfulness of one who knows them well, you can give a gift that lasts, that inspires, that suggests the awe of accomplishment.
Author
“You find the untold stories of so many women…women who’ve been lost from the pages of history, and you write them well.”
Ann Smith of the Houston-Galveston Sam Houston Chapter of DAR about Texas Dames: Sassy and Savvy Women throughout Lone Star History
Carmen is the top-selling author of Texas’ heroic women’s stories: true adventures across the centuries and the landscape of Texas.
ONE READER SAID about TEXAS RANCH WOMEN: THREE CENTURIES OF METTLE AND MOXIE…
…“well written and informative. I was born and raised in Texas. We had Texas history in school. This book gives me the ‘rest of the story’.” – Txana, on Amazon, a review.
Storyteller
“Thank you for coming. I could tell people really enjoyed the stories you told.”
Debbie, Pittsburg Peach Festival
Carmen spins the tales, the true ones, of Texas’ formidable women, stories untold or long forgotten. She’s written about them in columns, magazines, anthologies and books– tales of immigrating to “Tejas” alone and with children, standing off hungry and angry hostiles with guns or baked bread, grubbing to bring forth crops and livestock on land often parched, making hay when wildcatters poked their pastures and hit bonanzas.
Upcoming events
Whether about history or writing, Carmen welcomes the opportunity to ‘pass it on.’
Scheduling Storytelling Events Now for 2024. Contact Carmen to find out more or schedule an event.
Ongoing Writers Circles
Tuesdays 7 – 10pm : In person only;
Wednesdays, 1:30-4:30pm: In person with zoom for those ill or traveling.
Thursday 7 – 10pm: Zoom only.
Every six weeks
Beginning September 17, 2024
September 18, 2024
September 19, 2024
NEW WRITING WORKSHOP WILL KICK OFF 2025, FOLLOWED BY A NEW WRITERS’ CIRCLE!
For more information, call on 817-726-0412 or EMAIL