APW Book Club meeting 9/25/21 with Meredith Whiteley
Karen Lateiner is inviting you to a virtual APW Book Club meeting on Zoom at 10 a.m. on Saturday, September 25.
Topic: APW Book Club meeting with Meredith Whiteley
Date: September 25, 2021
Time: 10:00 AM Arizona
Join Meredith Whiteley as she talks about her book Miracle on the Salt River: Water, Family, and Farming in the Arizona Desert. The book is available through major online bookstores and in some online used bookstores. It will be helpful if you have read the book, but any APW member may join. Members have received the Zoom link, but if you are not already a member of the APW Book Club, email Karen Lateiner to join and to get the link for this talk. (No charge -it’s a benefit of our membership!). And, if you would like your book to be the topic for a future meeting, email Karen also.
About the book:
Miracle on the Salt River: Water, Family, and Farming in the Arizona Desert by Meredith Whiteley
Water: It’s always been personal. When the Hohokam abandoned their civilization, it was personal. When a man shot his neighbor over the little bit in the ditch, it was personal. When a greedy developer sold one hundred thousand acres to farmers and the canal went dry, it was personal.
Personal: families dreamed, built schools, churches, towns. They celebrated, grieved, and sometimes left their horses to thirst to death when there was no more water for their own children to drink.
Meredith Whiteley follows the personal story of farmers and water in sixty years of the Valley as they realized the “miracle” that gave them all the water they would ever need—and beyond.
New APW Book Club!
After a lively discussion during our October meeting, a few members expressed interest in forming a book group to read and review each other’s books. Book group meetings will be held virtually at 10 am on the 4th Saturday of every month. Karen Shiffman Lateiner has agreed to coordinate the group. If you are interested in participating, please email or call her: kslateiner@gmail.com, 973-997-7204.
The first meeting will be – Saturday, October 24, at 10 am. Timeless Dance: A Story of Change and Loss by Karen Shiffman Lateiner is the first selection. It is available in Kindle or paperback on Amazon. If you are unable to obtain it, please let Karen know and she will arrange for you to get a copy.
The November selection will be Surrender by Marylee MacDonald, and December’s will be one of Jody Sharpe’s books.
Looking forward to seeing you at the launch of our APW Book Group. Contact Karen to join and stay tuned for further details.
Karen
973.997.7204
Karen Shiffman Lateiner, M.Ed.
Author,
Hike and Write Facilitator
Gender Diversity Educator
September 12 Zoom meeting with Karen Shiffman Lateiner
Our Central District September speaker will be Karen Shiffman Lateiner, M.A., M.Ed., author of Timeless Dance: A Story of Change and Loss
Zoom call on September 12, 2020 at 10 am
Zoom details will be emailed closer to the date. If you are not on the email list, contact Barbara Lacy at barblacyapw@gmail.com to be added to the list and to receive details and a reminder.
Karen Shiffman Lateiner, M.A., M.Ed., author of Timeless Dance: A Story of Change and Loss, has nearly twenty years of experience as a psychologist and infant/child development specialist providing service to vulnerable, at-risk children and their families.
As the parent of a transgender child who came out in the mid-nineties, she quickly became an advocate for gender minority youth, serving on the Affirmative Action Advisory Council and LGBT Task Force of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ), and the Stop Bullying AZ Task Force. Her book, part memoir, biography, and primer on gender diversity, has garnered many positive reviews, leading to speaking engagements in a variety of settings, from educational to corporate. Combining her love of the Sonoran Desert, and her desire to encourage and support other writers, she created and facilitates a Hike and Write program in Phoenix. Karen is a member of numerous organizations for writers and authors. In her spare time, she enjoys gardening, cooking, and baking sourdough bread.
See more about Karen at KSLateiner.com
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- Timeless Dance – Karen Shiffman Lateiner – https://www.amazon.com/Timeless-Dance-Story-Change-Loss/dp/171743794X/
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