Speaking Engagements

I've enjoyed my speaking engagements to discuss You Mean I Have to Look at the Body?! My next engagement is with the Boone United Methodist Church then in June near Lake Champlain on the New York side. Recently I spoke for the Hospice Volunteer Conference in Hickory NC. Speaking with Hospice volunteers was a particularly rich experience. If you have such a group in your area, let me know how to contact them for a talk.

Tarnished Pulpit

I'm about halfway in the my latest book, "Tarnish Pulpit," the tentative title. This book is fiction and I'm happy to not have to dig into my soul as I did the first book. It is set in the years 1967 - 1972, turbulent times for the country with Civil Rights, Vietnam, assassinations, and the ethics of Richard Nixon and turbulent times for First Parish Church of Ironton Corner. I hope to have several drafts completed by the end of the year.

Two Books to Recommend

For the grieving, Tear Soup A Recipe for Healing After Loss by Pat Schwiebert adn Chuck DeKlyen. And for those who love the writings of Henri Nouwen, Befriending Death: Henri Nouwen and a Spirituality of Dying by Michelle O'Rourke.

Find Me in All About Women

If you go to www.aawmag.com and go to the online edition you will find two articles by Marcia M. Cham. One on page 12 and the other page 36. Enjoy

Wesite

Finally, after much hassle from my book talks I have created a website. www.marciamcham.com. I can't believe how easy it was. Of course Ken was at my side and a wonderful person on the telephone to guide me. I need work on it some more but its up. I've been lazy about the draft of the Tarnished Pulpit but I'm getting back to it. In the meantime, I've wrote a piece about getting ready for a wedding with my mother (96) and aunt (82) It will be published in the March/April Issue of All About Women--a magazine put out here in the mountains. I hope they accept three other pieces...The Wedding is One Thing, The Marriage Another, The Work of Love, an adapted homily from my wedding liturgy, and Wedding Anectdotes. Enjoy.