Find Barbara!
Barbara the opportunity to speak to groups from kindergarten (or earlier) through World War veterans and their families. A member of Toastmasters who has earned the Competent Toastmasters designation and participated in the International Competition, Barbara speaks on a wide variety of subjects and is more than willing to craft a speech to meet the needs of the group. She once took her forensics book information and combined that with the story of forensics a hundred years ago and the story of Phynias Gage, a topic the fourth grade students she spoke to had just studied. She has spoken at meetings or Rotary, Lions, DAR, genealogy societies, Federated Women’s Clubs, church groups, and conferences of probation officer, county officials, and juvenile officers. Topics she has presented in the past include:
- Write it up
- She Who Must Be Obeyed (The History of Texas Women’s Judges) -- 1 hour to a day
- Texas Women’s Legal History Before it Began (20 – 30 minutes)
- I am the Constitution (description of my genealogy tied to various aspects of the US Constitution) – 20-30 minutes
- From Runnymede to Me (Legal History) – 20-30 minutes
- Politicians, Martyrs and Statesmen (an appeal to be informed voters and citizens) – 10-20 minutes, but I can easily expand it
- Forensic Evidence for Kids (20 minutes, any age grouping but preferably not more than 5 years apart)
- PowerPoint Made Easy – (20 minutes)
- An Introduction to The Artist's Way: A spiritual Path to Higher Creativity By Julia Cameron
- Summary Judgment: The Realities of Granting or Denying One (for lawyers)
- Everything I Ever Needed to Know about Mentoring I learned in Puppy Kindergarten
- Flash Fiction (for writers)
- The Will of God
- So What Does a County Court at Law Do?
- Juvenile Law 101
- Ten Top Clues to the Clueless Writer: A Cops and Writers Presentation
- The Deaths - And Lives - of President John F. Kennedy
and Pope John Paul I
- At the Tip of Your Fingers
- Nicaragua, More Than A Stamp on My Passport
- It’s Dingwall, Y’all (A story of my trip to a small town in Scotland and it’s 1000 year history)
- The English Monarchy
- Charlemagne
- He Got in a Ford and Started A Chevy (for writers)
- Governor Pat Neff of Texas
- The Petticoat Court (Three women who were judges of the Texas Supreme Court for one 1925 case)
- Anything else you want to ask her to think about talking about (almost)
So, where has she spoken or signed books? And where's she going to be?
Has been
- Wednesday, August 30, 2006 at Team Dyess Toastmasters, "Syncopated Summer"
- Friday, September 15, 2006 at Abilene Rotary Club, "Write it Up!"
- Tuesday, September 19, 2006 at Abilene Public Library, honored as Abilene writer of new book, spoke on Syncopated Summer
Will be