Marcia Meier's Writings
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Nov.14.2008
Central Coast Magazine
By Marcia Meier
Sky Bergman wants to save the world. Well, actually, she wants to preserve what’s left of some of the world’s disappearing cultures. A fine art photographer and professor of art at Cal Poly, Bergman has traveled extensively, and her images explore the clashes inherent in a Third World coming to terms with 21st-century societies and technology.
“I...
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Jun.08.2008
Santa Barbara Magazine
Jackie Rotman is every parent’s dream kid. Dynamic, focused, and philanthropic by nature, the 16-year-old newly crowned California Junior Miss has turned her passion for dance into a program that currently serves more than 400 underprivileged kids in Santa Barbara.
The Santa Barbara High School senior started Everybody Dance Now! two years ago after...
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May.14.2008
Central Coast Magazine
Central Coast Magazine
Most marriages don’t last half as long as Tom Ball and Kenny Sultan have been playing acoustic blues together. Their successful partnership has lasted nearly three decades. Fortunately for their legions of devoted fans, the Santa Barbara-based musicians intend to keep on pickin’ and singing together for a long time to come.
Consummate...
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Apr.28.2008
Central Coast Magazine
January/February 2008
By Marcia Meier
An author once described the Brooklyn Bridge as “steel poetry ... It makes you feel that maybe you, too, could add something that would last and be beautiful.” It's a sentiment that resonates with Professor and Artist R. Anthony Askew, who pasted it on the door to his Westmont College studio.
Askew believes anyone can create...
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Apr.26.2008
Santa Barbara Magazine
Santa Barbara Magazine
The Dream TeamContributing to a Healthier Cottage HospitalBy Marcia Meier
They call them “The Dream Team,” but perhaps “Dream-Fulfillers” is a more accurate description. If anyone can raise $100 million in coming months to help rebuild Cottage Hospital, this dynamic quartet can. They are Lady Leslie Ridley-Tree, who with her husband, Lord...
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Apr.26.2008
Santa Barbara Magazine
Santa Barbara Magazine
By Marcia Meier
They met on a bus in Mexico. Both recently had lost their respective spouses, and had independently traveled to Rancho La Puerta, the famous spa in Tecate, Baja, Mexico. On the return bus trip to San Diego, Yoel Haller happened to sit down next to Eva Roman and struck up a conversation. When he discovered that, like him,...
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Apr.25.2008
Central Coast Magazine
The Comeback Kirkhartby Marcia Meier
In the early 1990s, Beverly Kirkhart faced a fearful and uncertain future. Once a successful small inn owner, Kirkhart had by turns lost her husband through sudden divorce, her home and business through bankruptcy, and her health to a cancer diagnosis.
After each blow, Kirkhart reeled. When she finally completed treatment for...
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Apr.25.2008
Central Coast Magazine
October 2007 Central Coast Magazine
Harvesting Creative DreamsBy Melissa Marsted
It’s harvest time, marking the end of the growing season; time to reap the rewards from spring plantings and summer nourishment. But fruits and vegetables are not the only treasures being harvested from our rich soil. Santa Barbara’s cultural climate has proved to be a fertile...
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About Marcia
Marcia Meier is an award-winning journalist, author, poet, photographer, teacher, and former director of the Santa Barbara Writers Conference.
Meier wrote and edited for daily newspapers for twenty years; was marketing and communications director...
Marcia’s Favorite Books
Tolkien's Trilogy, The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson, Peace Like a River by Leif Unger, The Curious Incident of...