Janelle Hanchett at BookPeople on July 13
The Forrest Four-Cast: July 8, 2018
The author of the recently-published book “I’m Just Happy to Be Here: A Memoir of Renegade Mothering,” Janelle Hanchett comes to BookPeople on the evening of Friday, July 13.
This forthright, wickedly-funny, and ultimately empowering memoir chronicles her tumultuous journey from young motherhood to abysmal addiction and a recovery she never imagined possible. The book builds upon many of the themes explored in her popular “Renegade Mothering” blog.
Hanchett’s voice is one of warmth and wit to those who feel like outsiders in parenthood and life — calling out the rhetoric surrounding “the sanctity of motherhood” as tired and empty, boldly recounting instead how one grows to accept an imperfect self within an imperfect life — thinking, with great and final relief, “Well, I’ll be damned, I’m just happy to be here.”
Book People is located at 603 North Lamar. The Janelle Hanchett book reading on July 13 begins at 7:00 pm. You can also order a signed copy of “I’m Just Happy To Be Here” via the BookPeople website.
More Austin events for the week of July 9
July 9: Getting Real About Entrepreneurship and Mental Health
July 9: Product League: Product Pricing Considerations
July 9: Co-Founders Wanted Austin Meet Up
July 9: EFF-Austin Meet Up
July 9: AWS Step Functions & The State of DevSecOps
July 9: Austin Clojure Meet Up
July 9: Austin Women Who Code Hacking Hangout
July 10: AI Epic Office Hours at Capital Factory
July 10: Intro to Austin Fundraising
July 10: Bringing the Blockchain Transformation Home
July 10: Data Science Fundamentals: Intro to Python
July 10: Introduction to Data Science: Naive Bayes Algorithm
July 10: Learn to Code Austin Meet Up
July 11: Austin Hispanic Hackers Meet Up
July 11: Network Austin Mixer
July 11: Startup Grind Summer Party
July 11: EmacsATX Meet Up
July 11: How to Get a Great Assistant
July 11: Austin Python Meet Up
July 11: Galvanize Data Science and Web Development Info Session
July 11: User Experience Design Info Session
July 11: Talk Data to Me
July 11: Kickstart Your Career in Data Science
July 11: Startup Grind Summer Party
July 12: Austin Technology Council Roundtable — Women in Tech
July 12: Austin Blockchain Collective Town Hall Meeting
July 12: Video Game Makers Unite!
July 12: Austin PHP Monthly Meet Up
July 12: IBM Watson Cognitive Tech Meet Up
July 12: WordPress Meet Up Group
July 12: Data Science Fundamentals: Intro to Python
July 14: AngelHack Austin Hackathon 2018
July 14: Work: A Pop-Up Conference for Creatives and Entrepreneurs
More Upcoming Austin Events:
July 16: Digital Marketing Facebook Update
July 16: Creating Authentic Professional Relationships That Last
July 17: The Key to Closing More Nonprofit Donations & Sales
July 17: Austin Technology Council Roundtable — Sales Tech
July 18: Maximizing Your Impact Through the Art of Communication
July 18: Founders Institute Spring Graduation
July 19: Austin Mosaic Awards
July 19: Beyond Slapping A Logo On It: A Sponsorship Brainstorm
July 20: “Tell the Machine Good Night” Book Reading
July 20: SXSW PanelPicker Entry Deadline
July 26: Coolest Companies Fest
July 27: The Mayor’s Blockchain Challenge
August 3–5: RTX Austin 2018
August 7: The Promise and the Peril of Gene Editing
August 9: Team Austin Summer Startup Pitch
August 15: MassChallenge Texas Awards Ceremony
August 22: Snap Judgement LIVE!
August 29: Scale Up
September 4: Austin Forum Cybersecurity Session
September 20–22: Creatives Meet Business Experience 2018
September 27–29: 2018 Texas Tribune Festival
October 2: InnoTech Austin
Oct 5–7: ACL Fest, Weekend #1
Oct 12–14: ACL Fest, Weekend #2
Oct 25-Nov 1: Austin Film Festival
October 27–28: 2018 Texas Book Festival
November 27–28: Solar Business Festival
If you have a creativity-focused event that you want listed in this space, then please contact hugh at sxsw dot com.
Hugh Forrest serves as Chief Programming Officer at SXSW, the world’s most unique gathering of creative professionals. He also tries to write at least four paragraphs per day on Medium. These posts often cover tech-related trends; other times they focus on books, pop culture, sports and other current events.
