Founder and owner of the Word Garden, Mary Anne Radmacher makes her art her life and her life an art. And in Lean Forward into Your Life she invites us to do the same. Or as she says, Lean Forward into Your Life is a commonplace book for leading an uncommon life. An uncommon life need not include fame and fortune. An uncommon life means living with intention, paying attention, celebrating, taking care of yourself, risking love. To live an uncommon life is to live large from the heart. Each section of Lean Forward into Your Life opens with a hand-lettered aphorism in the author's signature collage style. The essays, stories, and exercises that follow are designed to bring the reader into her or his own uncommon life. In the tradition of The Invitation, by Oriah Mountain Dreamer and I Will Not Die an Unlived Life by Dawna Markova, poems that evolved into best-selling books, Lean Forward into Your Life is an intimate book that leads readers into the center of their own ability to change the world. * An invitation to the millions of people who want to make the most of their lives and leave the world a slightly better place.
Mary Anne Radmacher's words and art travel the world to homes, hospitals, offices and school rooms. People use her classic combination of phrase and image to celebrate and commemorate from birth to remembering eulogies...and
all the significances in between. In addition to her own original web store at maryanneradmacher.net, her words are found on web sites, in commencement speeches, in trade and professional journals, in eulogies and
on diverse commercial products. She publishes her writing through Red Wheel/Weiser/Conari Press. Mary Anne's work is licensed to such internationally recognized firms as Quotable Cards and Brushdance. Her words are available in books presented through Conari Press.
Her classic signature work is available through a dot com that bears her name. She is included in the most recent edition of the Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations. CNN, HGTV, Oprah, the New Yorker, among others, have featured her work.
Radmacher is known in many different roles. She is writer, artist, trainer, speaker, teacher, activist, change agent. The title her business card features is, "Inspirator."
Throughout her extensive entrepreneurial career Radmacher has demonstrated consistent green practices and expansive philanthropic and community involvement. Mary Anne enjoys teaching the benefits of a regular writing practice in the corporate context as well as to audiences ranging from preschool to prison. She believes a writing habit contributes to excellence and innovation in any environment from school room to board room to barbed prison walls.
She is a capable and engaging guest in radio and television. She is at ease in any venue when she has the opportunity to celebrate and discuss the profound applications of a writing practice and the keen value of well ordered words.
