Category: Radical Gratitude

  • ONE LIFE TO GIVE Featured for Veteran’s Day

      Pete Gallivan did an absolutely wonderful feature on Buffalo’s WGRZ about my co-author Andrew Bienkowski for Unknown Stories of Western New York. Pete talked about Andy’s banishment to Siberia (in 1939) at only five years of age and how that experience has informed and influenced his life for the past 75 years. There’s even…

  • Feeling the Book Club Love

    Andy and I recently had our first book club experience and it was amazing! The wonderful thing about book clubs is that they are most often held in private homes, with a small group of attentive readers, there’s food and drink, and no need to “perform” as with a public reading. The meeting is held…

  • Second Printing!

    Good news! We’ve just heard that Radical Gratitude is going into its second printing tomorrow–whoo hoo!!

  • Here are two pictures from our wonderful book launch this weekend, held at The Roycroft. This is the banquet room before people began to arrive, and this is us at the end–tired but very happy.

  • The Roycroft Campus Corporation

    The RCC in East Aurora, NY has very graciously offered to host a luncheon and book launch for Radical Gratitude and other life lessons learned in Siberia. The luncheon will be held at the Roycroft Inn on March 8th. If you had asked me two years ago to dream big and tell you where I’d…

  • Press release!!

    In the tradition of Tuesdays with Morrie, this is the inspirational story of how one man learned life’s greatest lessons in the face of incredible hardship. RADICAL GRATITUDE and other life lessons learned in Siberia Andrew Bienkowski & Mary Akers Published by Allen & Unwin on 7 March 2008No article or review should appear before…