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Recently...

Buffett Book Launch

Bill Buffett and cousin, Warren Buffett, at a signing for a book I edited, Foods You Will Enjoy: the Story of Buffett's Store.

Both Warren and Bill worked at the legendary Buffett family grocery. Warren contributed a chapter to the book and helped Bill (above) plug it at the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting in Omaha.

Loire Valley, France

We're hoping this visual writing residency will be the first of many.

In October 2008, I took my third trip to Qatar, this time to work on a second essay collection, Qatar Then and Now. I taught two workshops a day to students and community members and was part of the launch of a new writing program: Finding Your Voice, funded by local sponsors including a bank, an art center, and a real estate office.

I had a fascinating six-weekresidency in Qatar earlier this year, where I taught writing to a group of Qatar University students and to the QU library staff. I also taught a day-long writing workshop to a group of ex-pats, living in Qatar. Qatar Narratives,the first essay collection of its kind in Qatar, was published from work developed in those workshops. For news about the programs click here and here.

And for more informal details, and pictures from my stay there, visit my blog.

My Doha Students' First Reading Made the Regional News

Our program was recently featured, in the (Doha) Gulf News.To read it,

Click Here.

For more pictures and impressions of my experiences, visit ...

<Carol's Blog>.

A Weekend of Workshops

October 26 - 28, Shelby. NC

I was invited to present a series of writing workshops for medical and pastoral professionals, in addition to thelay population. The weekend was sponsored by the Cleveland County NC Healthcare System's Center for Lifelong Learning. Other sponsors included local churches, health care centers, and civic groups.

Billed as "Finding Hope through Reflection & Writing, a Weekend with Carol Henderson."

On October 13, I was proud to speak at the

3rd Annual Heartstrings Walk to Remember,

in Greensboro, NC, sponsored and produced by the Heartstrings Infant Loss Support Group.