AWSNA Publications is offering a huge Presidents Day sale on some of their books just now, and my mother’s marvelous LET’S TALK, LET’S PLAY is 50% off until February 28! Let’s Talk, Let’s Play guides parents in showing their young children how to learn from life. AWSNA Publications is part of the Association of Waldorf…
Once upon a time…. Every story has it’s start.
OCTOBER 19, 2008 It is good to be aware of all physical changes taking place when you’re over eighty. It makes you aware, alert, ready, able, and interested! Life is an adventure right to the end. MAYBE IT’S AN EVENT.
“What a total success your book is. I truly loved it. Mystery, memoir, adventure.“— Sonia Rosenbaum, Director, Newgate Capital Management “A beautiful book — heartfelt — charming — joyful! Just wish I could have seen that world with you.” — Patricia Bosworth, Author of Diane Arbus, Montgomery Clift, Marlon Brando
One year ago today my beloved mother suffered a massive stroke. We brought her home to Paloma Ave, just a block from the Pacific Ocean, where she drew her last breath one week later. As I stayed close by her those last few days, I browsed among all her marvelous writings and came across a…
Here are some images of Jane and Alex, from the archive.
Letters to Samuel Hazelton Coates Knapp from William Saroyan and Tallulah Bankhead. Sam was Jane’s brother. “there is no longer a publishing house that publishes a writer, only occasional books that look like money-makers” – William Saroyan 1968
A tremendous eulogy written by Jane’s dear friend Kaaren Kitchell, with pictures by Richard Beban, also her dear friend, was published recently in the online journal PARIS PLAY. Please read and feel free to comment.
September 27, 1926 – July 31, 2011 Jane Winslow Eliot died peacefully at home on Sunday, July 31. Those who knew Jane, loved her. Her generosity, her energy, her interest, her wisdom, and her enormous heart touched everyone who met her. “Wrapping ourselves in experience, blankets around our souls, we move on.” From Around the…
In 1963 Jane Winslow Eliot and her husband, Alexander Eliot, took their seven- and eight-year-old children on a freighter voyage from Yugoslavia to Japan. Their purpose was to inspire their children to regard the world as their home, and people from every country their friends. What happened on that journey was not what they expected,…
