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10/08/2025

Linda J. Walder, founder and CEO of The Daniel Jordan Fiddle Foundation for adult autism, is featured in the October issue of Exceptional Parent Magazine. Check out her tips on: How to Help Young People with ASD on the Journey to Adulthood.

08/01/2024

My client and friend, poet Linda Joy Walder, believes that creativity has no age limit!
Check out her inspiring interview on Charleston's "Live 5 News" (WCSC-TV).

Linda became a published poet at age 60, with "Running Naked in The Snow," her debut collection of poems (Free Verse Press).

She is also the Founder and Director of a trailblazing not-for-profit organization that has has led the global community for the past 20 years in accepting, valuing, and supporting adults diagnosed with Autism.

If you happen to live in Charleston, Linda will be doing a poetry reading at the Baxter-Patrick James Island Library on Saturday, August 3, at 3 p.m.

A local woman is breaking barriers, becoming a published poet at age 60.

07/17/2024

My client and friend LINDA JOY WALDER became a published poet at age 60, with "Running Naked in The Snow," her debut collection of poems (Free Verse Press). She has lots of wise ideas about how to ignite personal creativity...at ANY age!

Today, she spoke with Christian Senger, host of Charleston, S.C.'s, Holy City Sinner podcast, about her poetry and process...and about life, love, loss, and hope.

If you happen to live in Charleston, Linda will be doing a poetry reading at the Baxter-Patrick James Island Library on Saturday, August 3, at 3 p.m.

The latest episode of Holy City Sinner Radio, this website's companion podcast, is now live on multiple streaming platforms.

06/15/2022

Linda Joy Walder is a resilient warrior, who recently shared her thoughts about grief, loss, self-reflection, and reinvention on the "Open To Hope" podcast. It's a powerful and inspiring interview. Feel free to share it.
https://lnkd.in/gD8Fbusz

02/13/2022

Thanks, Hope for Widows Foundation ...

"Hope Sister, Linda Joy Walder, is a recent widow, navigating the loss of her cherished husband. Twenty years ago, she lost her 9-year-old son to an autism-related seizure. Her poems deal with love, grief, healing, HOPE, and joy! Check out her inspirational resource for women (and men) who are grieving, 'Running Naked in the Snow; is available on Amazon." Check it out here:

Running Naked in the Snow

02/09/2022

My client, poet Linda Joy Walder, was just featured in WE Magazine for Women. Thanks, Heidi Richards Mooney...
https://wemagazineforwomen.com/linda-joy-walder-author-of-running-naked-in-the-snow/

WE Magazine for Women

LINDA JOY WALDER has written poetry in her mind since childhood. Now, the time has arrived for her to share her creations with a debut collection of poems

12/22/2021

For the New Year, trust that what is yours will find you!
Linda Joy Walder says: "A resilient person has faith that the hurt of disappointment is temporary and that the best is yet to be theirs in time."

Trust What Is Yours Will Find You Leave a Comment / resiliency / By lindajwalderc Trust What Is Yours Will Find You Imagine you are alone, walking in the woods. The weather is perfect, slightly cool, a gentle breeze. You take deep, hearty breaths as you walk further absorbing your surroundings. Then...

11/23/2021

More visibility for Linda Joy Walder and "Running Naked in the Snow," her debut collection of poems...
Charleston, SC Patch

'Running Naked in the Snow,' the debut collection of...

04/14/2021

Grief has its own timetable...according to poet and philanthropist Linda Walder. Her latest poem, "Wall of Loss," appears on her LindaJWalderC website. Linda's first collection of poetry will be published in 2021 by Free Verse Press.

Wall of Loss Leave a Comment / poetry / By lindajwalderc Wall of Loss    Grief constructs a wall of loss, an immovable monument protecting memories carved deeply where the name is embedded. The living say a puddle penetrates a brick in time, but a senseless massacre will make no more sense tomorro...

03/10/2021

LindaJWalderC knows that milestones and markers can be tough for those who are grieving.
Linda's advice: "Surround yourself with people who are not trying to 'fix your feelings'..!!
http://www.lindajwalderc.com/there-will-always-be-milestones-and-markers/
Hope for Widows Foundation

There Will Always Be Milestones and Markers Leave a Comment / resiliency / By lindajwalderc THERE WILL ALWAYS BE MILESTONES AND MARKERS     Our lives are full of milestones and markers.  Birthdays, anniversaries, graduations and weddings are milestones that easily come to mind.  Days that recall...

02/11/2021

"Oh, NO...not my Archie comics"..!!
Years ago, when LindaJWalderC was away at college, her mother sold her treasured collection of comic books...without even asking her!
This sparked a lifelong passion for curating and keeping collections of all kinds.
Says Linda, "Collections are the artifacts of your life story..."

COLLECTING EXPANDS CREATIVITY Leave a Comment / creativity / By Johnny Chan Collecting Expands Creativity Throughout my childhood, I collected Archie comic books. I cannot remember whether my Grandfather, whom I called Papa, started my collection or if he was just an avid contributor to it, but ever...