Ordinary Aphrodite
by Anne Schroeder
Price: $6.99 USD. 80220 words.
Published on June 4, 2011. Nonfiction.
Ordinary Aphrodite is an extraordinary collection of essays that celebrate the woman's journey. Written by a baby boomer who understands how her life of small steps has created spiritual and creative connections and who opens herself so that other women will recognize themselves in her story.
Filled with humor, insight and inspiration, this is a life-changer read.
Location: United States
Member Since: June 04, 2011
Anne Schroeder
Biography
A fifth-generation Californian, Anne Schroeder’s love of writing was fueled by stories of her Norwegian great-grandfather and his neighbors working together to blast a grade out of solid rock. She evokes the drama of growing up in a close-knit Southern California farm community in her first memoir, Branches on the Conejo: Leaving the Soil after Five Generations.
A willingness to say "yes" to life allows Schroeder to use her experiences and her misadventures in life, love and motherhood resonate with the common themes shared amongst women throughout their lives.
In Ordinary Aphrodite, she writes about her experience as a boomer baby who came of age on the crest of the ’60s Social Revolution. Earning a college degree with a husband and a toddler was the easy part; she found herself struggling with Gender Equality, Free Speech, Free Love, The Pill and Vatican II. By the time she mastered those, she had Glass Ceilings, Social Responsibility and Recycling.
Schroeder has had short stories and essays published in dozens of national print magazines. She edited Scent of Cedar: Promising Writers of the Pacific Northwest. She has taught creative writing workshops through community college extension and writers’ groups, including the Women Writing the West conference in Colorado Springs.
Schroeder considers exercise a necessary evil, but she enjoys walking her chocolate Lab puppy, Maggie and sitting in the sauna at her gym after an easy workout. Her family is not always thrilled with the fact that their life is an open book, but she tells them that memoir writers are like old show horses; always happiest when they’re in the ring.
A willingness to say "yes" to life allows Schroeder to use her experiences and her misadventures in life, love and motherhood resonate with the common themes shared amongst women throughout their lives.
In Ordinary Aphrodite, she writes about her experience as a boomer baby who came of age on the crest of the ’60s Social Revolution. Earning a college degree with a husband and a toddler was the easy part; she found herself struggling with Gender Equality, Free Speech, Free Love, The Pill and Vatican II. By the time she mastered those, she had Glass Ceilings, Social Responsibility and Recycling.
Schroeder has had short stories and essays published in dozens of national print magazines. She edited Scent of Cedar: Promising Writers of the Pacific Northwest. She has taught creative writing workshops through community college extension and writers’ groups, including the Women Writing the West conference in Colorado Springs.
Schroeder considers exercise a necessary evil, but she enjoys walking her chocolate Lab puppy, Maggie and sitting in the sauna at her gym after an easy workout. Her family is not always thrilled with the fact that their life is an open book, but she tells them that memoir writers are like old show horses; always happiest when they’re in the ring.
Where to find Anne Schroeder online
Website: http://www.readanneschroeder.com
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