Publisher's Synopsis
After Jacqueline met Lili Miura, the owner of Miura Advertising & Marketing and publisher of Torrance Magazine and Palos Verdes Style Magazine, she proposed becoming a contributing editor responsible for identifying and writing articles about local people and a column provisionally titled "Woman of Achievement," later revised to "The Spirit of Achievement."
Miura agreed, and from 1995 to 1999, Jacqueline Miller Bachar wrote 40 articles and interviews for PV Style. She also wrote several short stories, a half dozen poems, published a collection of letters discovered during her family genealogy work that were written by an aunt eight generations removed, Life on the Ohio Frontier: A Collection of Letters from Mary Lott to Deacon John Phillips, 1826-1846, and edited and published Poetry in the Garden, an anthology of California women poets.In 1995, she spoke about another relative, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, at the United Nations, and was guest speaker at the Stanton Foundation's 1995 celebration of Stanton's birthday held at the Women's Rights Historical Park in Seneca Falls, N.Y. She was named to head the International Hospitality Committee (West Coast / Los Angeles) for the National Council of Women USA.
In this role, she recruited more members than any other individual known in the history of the NCW, and in 1998, was the first recipient of the Elizabeth Cady Stanton Appreciation Award, presented in New York at the Women of Conscience Award Luncheon.
Jacqueline and her husband Paul Bachar retired to Palm Desert in the Coachella Valley in 1999, where she wrote articles for the Desert Sun newspaper and its Next magazine, started a chocolate company, served as a board member or volunteer for several local organizations, and continued to experiment with writing fiction and poetry.
She was producer and host of The Jacqueline Bachar Show in Palm Springs from 2009-2011, featuring international, national, and local authors, people in the arts, and community and charity organizations. She received a Woman of Distinction in the Arts award 2010 from the National League of Pen Women, Palm Springs, and was awarded a Certificate of Congressional Recognition.
Even though she wrote poems, short stories, screenplays, a new speech about Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Mary Lott, and polished manuscripts during this period, the writing output collected here that began as she approached her 60th year and continued flowing over ten years evenly split between the ocean and the desert represents an especially crystallized creative peak.
The work in this volume serves as evidence supporting the notion that consistently engaging with one's creative interests is not an endeavor of simply finding time to fit such activities into one's life, but life itself, and the embodiment of the spirit of achievement. Jacqueline Miller Bachar is the editor of Poetry in The Garden, an anthology of California women poets, and Life on The Ohio Frontier: A Collection of Letters from Mary Lott to Deacon John Phillips, 1826-1846; She is the author of An Exploration of Boundaries: Art Therapy, Art Education, Psychotherapy; Images of a Woman: A Memoir Journal; and La Fête de La Vie (Stories & Poems).
