Authors
Margaret Ajemian Ahnert
Margaret Ajemian Ahnert was born in New York City. Growing up, she listened to her mother’s stories about her own childhood during the Armenian genocide in Turkey. She has an MFA from Goucher College and a BA from Goddard College, and is a graduate of the Barnes Foundation. She has pursued a variety of careers: producing television documentaries, [...]
Janet Alling
Forty-six years ago, after graduating from Yale University Art School in 1964 (MFA), Janet Alling had a revelation that she would devote her career to expressing aesthetic statements through flowers. Her mission was to redefine flower painting as an important subject matter essential in the history of painting and in contemporary art. Painting first in [...]
Tom Anthony
Tom Anthony graduated from West Point and spent six years as an Army officer. Following his discharge, he earned an MBA in International Business and lived all over Europe and Asia working for a large U.S. multinational as well as smaller, new technology companies. Tom lived in Mindanao for three years, where he had close [...]
Debra Beck
For 15 years, Debra Beck has been a devoted mentor for teenage girls. She done workshops with Girl Power, a program that is devoted to helping “encourage and motivate 11 to 16 year-old girls to make the most of their lives.” She has also created and facilitated her own workshops and girls’ groups through Spirited [...]
E. F. Benson
E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson (1867-1940) was a prolific novelist, dramatist, short story writer, and biographer. His first novel Dodo did extremely well and helped establish him as a writer. He wrote biographies of Sir Francis Drake, Alcibiades, Ferdinand Magellan, Queen Victoria, and Charlotte Bronte, and a curious instruction manual on figure skating. His devoted [...]
Dr. Susan Biali, M.D.
Dr. Susan Biali is an internationally recognized medical doctor, wellness expert, life coach, and flamenco dancer. Today, Dr. Biali helps free others to live a happier, healthier life by unveiling the blueprint that they already carry inside. She has performed for and taught celebrities, and speaks and dances across North America. Dr. Biali blogs for [...]
Michael Brown
Until 1989, South African-born Michael Brown was living what he had called a blissfully unconscious life as a music journalist. He then developed an acutely painful neurological condition for which conventional medicine had neither cure nor relief. This caused him to set out on what became an odyssey of self-healing. His exploration took him into [...]
Pearl S. Buck
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck was born in West Virginia and taken to China as an infant before the turn of the century. The daughter of Presbyterian missionaries, she lived with her family in a town in the interior instead of the traditional missionary compound. Buck grew up speaking Chinese as well as English and receieved most [...]
Irena Chalmers
Irena Chalmers has worn many hats in the food industry. The publisher, producer, and packager of more than forty books, she has regularly contributed to such publications as The New York Times, Food & Wine, Gastronomica, Food Arts, and Nation’s Restaurant News. She is a founding member and past president of both the International Association [...]
Angelo M. Codevilla
Angelo M. Codevilla is professor emeritus of international relations at Boston University. Educated at Rutgers (1965) Notre Dame (1968), and the Claremont graduate university (1973), Codevilla served in the US Navy, the US Foreign Service, and on the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. He taught philosophy at Georgetown, classified intelligence matters at the US [...]
