Grateful Steps Publishing

03/28/2018

03/28/2018

Organization Information & Location Directions =

Before I have only given the address to the new location, however, these are the actual directions:

Here are directions; DRIVE WEST ON PATTON after crossing the bridge leaving downtown. Turn right at the 3rd traffic light, a corner with KFC and Wells Fargo. It is Louisiana Avenue. Go uphill to a light and turn left. It is Hazel Mill Road. Wind your way down the hill to a new traffic light and turn left. It is Emma Road. It merges into Ben Lippen Road. If you use a GPS or Google, be sure to include the entire name (30 Ben Lippen School Road), or you will be led astray. Ben Lippen School Road is the road at our entrance. Continue up the hill until reaching the "crest.” You can't miss Crest Mountain, a development on your right with a huge entrance covering an entire bank. We are the first building, on the left with a green roof, as you come up the Crest Mountain entrance road.
See the picture below of our new site. We are on the lower level. Drive to the left of the building and come down (see ⇑ below) a little hill to the lower level entrance. There is tons of parking.

Also, please note further contact and communication information:
www.gratefulsteps.org
[email protected]
www.facebook.com/GratefulSteps

828-277-0998
GRATEFUL STEPS
CREST MOUNTAIN
30 BEN LIPPEN SCHOOL ROAD #107
ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA 28806

As well for your information:
Grateful Steps is a 501c3 public charity. We love giving back for our blessings. We bring voices to the community that otherwise might not be heard, we contribute to the preservation of Appalachian history, and we provide space for a variety of groups.
We need your support. Your donation helps us help others as a ministry through publishing. As a nonprofit, traditional publisher, we turn to the community to support

our books. Follow our newsletter, website, social media and mailings for more details.
Please donate at our website, www.gratefulsteps.org, or mail your donation to our address below. Or better yet, come by and meet us. Volunteers are always welcome. Thank you!

Thank you for your continued support.

03/28/2018

Coming Soon:

A Mighty Forest
A Mighty World
By Gary Holt

order now for a 10% Discount
from Grateful Steps

A Mighty Forest, A Mighty World is an easily-accessible and timely allegorical review of our past, our present, and a future that still longs to be. Whether recalling the dynamic, centuries-old history of the Americas, the rift between environmental care and industrial productivity, or some elemental struggle we might wrestle with internally within our individual lives, it provides—in poetic simplicity—a concise picture of the path we've taken from an "idyllic youth" . . . to the inevitable and impossible conundrum of where we are.
And as for the way forward? Here, for some, may lie a surprising and refreshing re-introduction. For all, it is hoped, a humbling and powerful reminder of mankind's greatest ally . . . and greatest hope.
For anyone who has struggled with the seemingly irreconcilable nature of apparent opposites and the bleak future it portends . . . this book is a gift.

03/28/2018

The event is April 26, 5:30-7 PM at Grateful Steps.
Grateful Steps' Contribution to Stand Against Racism Combines with April Interfaith Again this Year, this time with "The Ron Eddings Story."
Ron Eddings, a Grateful Steps author (Broken) and fourth-place winner as co-author with Freddy Robinson of a screenplay (From My Eyes: The Ron Eddings Story) at an international contest (2008 Cinema City International Film Festival: Screenplay Category), will discuss racism he and his friends and family suffered when he was growing up in Asheville, the downward spiral his life subsequently took (drugs, prison, despair) and his triumph of recovery with God as his pilot. He responded to outreach by Scottie and Jack Barnes, founders of Forgiven Ministry, Inc., Taylorsville, NC. He participated with Charles Coulson's ministry and eventually took his moving story to inmates in prisons all over the United States.
The event is April 26, 5:30-7 PM at Grateful Steps.

03/28/2018

Saturday, April 14, 6-8 p.m. at Grateful Steps
You are Invited to a Reception and Book Event at Grateful Steps with Author/Artist Teresa A. Price
Yes, Teresa A Price is the GSF author of Bent 31 Poems who will be participating at Poetrio on April 8 with Malaprop's (see above). She is also GSF artist for April. This lovely bluebird and several other wonderful pieces of art will be with us for the entire month until purchased.
She is also a soapmaker. She enjoys crafting natural smooth and exfoliant milk soap bars and loaves per request. Her small-batch, distinctly different soaps are made from the finest ingredients and are crafted using a variety of milks (goat, almond, coconut); therapeutic essential oils, infused o​ils, and natural exfoliants. She frequently makes donations of her soap and lotions to shelters, seniors, and firemen. Each Christmas, all proceeds of soap sales are gifted to someone battling illness or cancer.
T.A. Price has a minor in Art, and is a photographer and painter, using impasto knives and oil. She gifts the majority of her art to her friends.
The event is Saturday, April 14, 6-8 p.m. at grateful Steps.

03/28/2018

Grateful Steps has a table selling books at Heroes to Heroes, a program for veterans hosted by Joanie Dickson, Grateful Steps author (Chameleon, soon to press)

Joanie Dickson is a disabled USAF veteran. She attended the first all-female trip to Israel with Heroes to Heroes and is looking to give back to the organization with this fundraising effort. The event is a barbecue catered by Tim Justus Hungry Hawg , from 10-4 Saturday, April 14, at VFW Post 891, 626 New Leicester Highway. Come and buy books from us to help vets and GSF.

Heroes to Heroes Foundation, a non-denominational 501(c)(3) organization, provides a spiritual healing, su***de prevention, and peer support program for veterans who suffer from Moral Injury and PTSD.

03/28/2018

Grateful Steps Poet,
Teresa A. Price,
Participates in Malaprop's Poetrio,
April 8
This monthly event at Malaprop's features readings and book signings by three poets. In April, members of the NC Poetry Society help celebrate National Poetry Month: Beth Copeland (Blue Honey), Bill Griffin (Crossing the River), and T.A. Price (Bent, 31 Poems).
Event date:
Sunday, April 8, 2018 - 3:00pm
Event address:
55 Haywood Street

03/10/2018

Thursday, March 15, 6-8 p.m.
Grateful Steps at Crest Mountain

Hillary Frye displays her unique art that utilizes the mystery of the circle to interpret and explore the nature she finds around her here in North Carolina.
Hillary Frye is an artist who lives in Fairview, NC. She works in her home studio, concen-trating mainly on painting and metalsmithing. Hillary explores with a variety of materials to create evocative, expressive pieces of art. Using circles and lines, She makes colorful scenes that have an organic, raw nature.
Mostly known for her circle art images, peacocks and animal art, she often uses her own images in the jewelry designs she creates. Hillary's art is commonly found in restaurants, coffee shops, bars and breweries. Her jewelry is found in shops and boutiques in North and South Carolina. She had two of her images published in Kakalak 2017, a poetry and art anthology from NC and SC poets and artists. Hillary's art was recently featured on HGTV's Flipping Virgins.
These circular and linear-based designs create a fantasy like atmosphere, and this bold, vibrant work is an artistic exploration of expressiveness.
In her own words: "I love to make art and jewelry. I am excited to share it with you. Each piece of jewelry is hand poured with resin. There is also a variety of 2-d works as well as paintings on both canvas or mixed media pieces of paper. I offer a variety of original artworks for you to choose from for your walls or your body. I would love to do a custom ring, necklace, pair of earrings or an original piece of art for you. You can always choose from what I post on line."

02/16/2018

HOWARD HANGER HAS A NEW BOOK!
HE WILL BE GRATEFUL STEPS' INTERFAITH SPEAKER FEBRUARY 22 5:30-7:30 P.M. = Please join us at Grateful Steps at our usual Interfaith Program date: the last Thursday of the month, in this case: February 22 we will start at 5:30 and continue until 7:30 instead of 7 to see if a change in time will help attendees with the growing traffic congestion Thursday evenings in Asheville. Discussion will start closer to 6.
Refreshments will be served All faiths are welcome. We like to learn about your faith and tell you about ours. = Howard Hanger, the popular senior minster and founder of Jubilee! Community Church, also founded Hanger Hall School for Girls. This was once housed exactly where Grateful Steps is now: in Ben Lippen School. He founded Jazz Fantasy, a musical performance and recording business and he founded a cooperative housing organization with fourteen people living together in the Victorian mansion: Hanger Hall. It is the cooperative housing that is the subject of his new book:
Howard Hanger, the popular senior minster and founder of Jubilee! Community Church, also founded Hanger Hall School for Girls. This was once housed exactly where Grateful Steps is now: in Ben Lippen School. He founded Jazz Fantasy, a musical performance and recording business and he founded a cooperative housing organization with fourteen people living together in the Victorian mansion: Hanger Hall. It is the cooperative housing that is the subject of his new book:
Let's Move in Together: Enhancing the Joy of Co-Living.
He is considered a "trailblazer in communal living. This promises to be a very interesting "How-to."
Let's Move in Together: Enhancing the Joy of Co-Living.
He is considered a "trailblazer in communal living. This promises to be a very interesting "How-to." = HIS BIO STATES:
For more than thirty years, Howard Hanger served as an ordained minister in the United Methodist Church. He left the denomination so that he could continue to officiate same-sex ceremonial unions. Both his father and grandfather were Methodist Ministers, one of whom left the church over his opposition to war and the other got into trouble with the church over his pro-civil rights stance.
Howard believes that, as a minister, his mission is to bless and encourage love wherever he finds it and to bring love where it is not.
Howard has two daughters: one a business owner and Harvard graduate who lives in Atlanta, the other a physical therapist who received her doctorate of physical therapy from the University of Miami and currently practices in Asheville.
The book is published locally by Jill Mackey and her new company: In Joy Press. She brought Grateful Steps this special opportunity.

02/16/2018

AUTHOR JOSEPH SCOTCHIE RETURNS TO ASHEVILLE WITH DISCUSSION OF HIS NEW BOOK, WRITING ON THE SOUTHERN FRONT: AUTHENTIC CONSERVATISM FOR OUR TIMES, AS WELL AS HIS GRATEFUL STEPS BOOK, A GALLERY OF ASHEVILLEANS = Wednesday, February 21, 6-8 p.m. - Grateful Steps at Crest Mountain - Lots of Parking - Refreshments will be served = AMAZON ON THE NEW BOOK: For traditionalists, the conservative ascendency of the 1980s turned out to be a major disappointment. With the triumph of multiculturalism and political correctness, liberalism seemed to move from strength to strength. Still, a stout number of Southern conservative writers plunged forward, and their themes of populism, immigration, and cultural integrity are seeing a contemporary resurgence. Discussing a wide array of authors who worked in a variety of genres, Joseph Scotchie celebrates those unreconstructed champions who fought the culture wars of their times with a special learning and vigor.
GALLERY OF ASHEVILLEANS: It's a fun way to read about the history of our city. Joseph grew up here so he knows stories about the famous people of Asheville that have not made it to the history books. He tells about writers and artists and musicians and athletes and government officials and soldiers and more.
OTHER BOOKS BY JOSEPH SCOTCHIE:
The Vision of Richard Weaver (editor)
Barbarians in the Saddle: An Intellectual Biography of Richard M. Weaver The Paleoconservatives: New Voices of the Old Right (editor)
Thomas Wolfe Revisited
Revolt from the Heartland: The Struggle for an Authentic Conservatism
Street Corner Conservative: Patrick J. Buchanan and His Times
IN ADDITION TO HIS BOOKS: Joseph Scotchie has published over one hundred reviews and essays in various publications, including Chronicles, The South Carolina Review and The American Conservative. He is a graduate of both the University of North Carolina at Asheville and The City College of New York and has worked for many years as a journalist in the New York City area.
Please join us for this book event, which will be held at Grateful Steps. If you missed Joseph's book launch at Grateful Steps when we were on Merrimon Avenue, now is your chance to see why he was such a popular speaker. If you didn't miss it, you already know you will want to come back and hear him again.

02/16/2018

WRAL (RALEIGH) IS MAKING A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT TWO REMARKABLE BROTHERS, ABUSED AS LITTLE BOYS IN BREVARD, NOW ADULTS WITH LIVES OF FORGIVENESS AND HELPING OTHERS = Wednesday, February 21 12N to 1:30 PM. - The place is Central United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall
27 Church Street - Parking is Limited - Wall Street Deck is suggested = Come and be part of the audience for a documentary that is being created by WRAL (Raleigh) about the inspiring lives of two brothers who were each tragically abused as little boys in Brevard but grew up to a life of forgiveness and helping others. Knight Chamberlain, an Asheville resident, suffered a vicious assault by a stranger in the woods behind a Brevard church. He is author of Sidestepping the Pit: How I Survived Sexual Assault without Drugs, Alcohol or Depression, and Forgave My Attacker, published by Asheville's Grateful Steps.
Knight's brother, Michael Mack, was abused by a priest. Michael has received much acclaim in the Boston area for his play Conversations with My Molester: a journey of faith. His play and the story behind it was covered by numerous newspapers, including The New York Times and The Washington Post. The two boys grew up together in the same home and neither knew until recently that the other had endured such tragedy. This is a free event. Refreshments will be served. Come and join us. = Knight Chamberlain’s writing and occasional photographs, have appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, News & Observer (Raleigh, North Carolina), Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, North Carolina), Associated Press, and Reuters International. He has been honored by The North Carolina Press Association, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, and North Carolina Child Advocacy Institute. He received two Carolina Case Media Fellowships from UNC-Chapel Hill. He lives in Asheville with his wife, Rose. He has two sons and a daughter. Sidestepping the Pit is his first published book.
Before Conversations with My Molester, Michael Mack, an award-winning poet, playwright, and performer was best known for his autobiographical solo play Hearing Voices, Speaking in Tongues, about his mother's recovery from schizophrenia. He graduated from the Writing Program at MIT with a concentration in poetry. Awards include First Prize in the Writers Circle National Poetry Competition, Best Script at NYC's Midtown International Theatre Festival, and two Fellowships in Dramatic Writing from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the state's most prestigious and competitive individual arts grant. Mack has performed at the US Library of Congress, Yale University, Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, the Austin International Poetry Festival, Off-Off-Broadway at the Times Square Arts Center, and at the FBI's 32nd Annual Hostage Negotiation Seminar. He has also performed at scores of venues for consumers and providers of mental health services, including McLean Psychiatric Hospital, the national conference of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), and for faculty and students of the Harvard Medical School.

12/07/2017

Grateful Steps is a 501c3 public charity. We love giving back for our blessings. We bring voices to the community that otherwise might not be heard, we contribute to the preservation of Appalachian history, and we provide space for a variety of groups.
We need your support. Your donation helps us help others as a ministry through publishing. As a nonprofit, traditional publisher, we turn to the community to support our books. Follow our newsletter, website, social media and mailings for more details.
Please donate at our website, www.gratefulsteps.org, or mail your donation to our address below. Or better yet, come by and meet us. Volunteers are always welcome. Thank you!

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With best wishes from all of us at Grateful Steps: Micki (executive director), Michele (design consultant), Tom (facilities manager), and Ryan (intern).


www.gratefulsteps.org
[email protected]
www.facebook.com/GratefulSteps



828-277-0998
GRATEFUL STEPS
CREST MOUNTAIN
30 BEN LIPPEN SCHOOL ROAD #107
ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA 28806

Here are directions; DRIVE WEST ON PATTON after crossing the bridge leaving downtown. Turn right at the 3rd traffic light, a corner with KFC and Wells Fargo. It is Louisiana Avenue. Go uphill to a light and turn left. It is Hazel Mill Road. Wind your way down the hill to a new traffic light and turn left. It is Emma Road. It merges into Ben Lippen Road. If you use a GPS or Google, be sure to include the entire name (30 Ben Lippen School Road), or you will be led astray. Ben Lippen School Road is the road at our entrance. Continue up the hill until reaching the "crest.” You can't miss Crest Mountain, a development on your right with a huge entrance covering an entire bank. We are the first building, on the left with a green roof, as you come up the Crest Mountain entrance road.
See the picture below of our new site. We are on the lower level. Drive to the left of the building and come down a little hill to the lower level entrance. There is tons of parking.