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Nancy Schoellkopf
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Born
Sacramento, California, The United States
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Margaret Atwood, Sue Monk Kidd, Alice Hoffman, Barbara Kingsolver
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March 2012
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Yellow-Billed Magpie
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2015
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Red-Tailed Hawk (#2)
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Ghost Owl
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2017
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Rover: And Other Magical Tales
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Written with my Tuesday group with the prompts: cornucopia, apples, pies
I like to bake but I don’t do it that often. I don’t do it that often because I need to keep my blood sugar low. But I don’t want to write about that. I want to write about my electric mixer.
Thirty-something years ago when I moved out of my parents’ house, my mother bought me a hand-held electric mixer for Christmas. ...
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The Stranger by Albert Camus a Book Review Somehow I got through high school and college without reading Albert Camus. So when I saw a new translation of The Stranger on sale at Barnes and Noble, I thought, why not? But I’m not 22 anymore, and I don’t ...more |
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The Quiet American Midway through The Quiet American I began to think about a college English class lecture I sat through forty years ago about the “initiated” Hemingway heroes who viewed with disdain and at times even bitterness and envy, those naïve ...more |
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True confession: I’m not a big fan of nonfiction. It’s not that I have anything against authors who make valiant efforts to record reality, but every minute I spend reading nonfiction is time that could be spent reading a novel. I love novels. So when ...more |
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The Story Sisters by Alice Hoffman is the rambling tale of three sisters whose charmed childhood is torn apart by a horrific secret. It’s a novel hard to write about without spoilers but I’ll endeavor to be cryptic! As always, I was drawn in my Hoffma ...more |
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“There are no sh*thole countries. There is only one Earth and we all arose from her water and mud.”
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“There are no sh*thole countries. There is only one Earth and we all arose from her water and mud.”
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“He felt again the presence of invisible cities, here in the moist soil of his back yard, providing shelter for his fears, his memories, and every mythic animal that had ever visited him whether on earth plane or dreamscape.”
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“It is our greatest desire to see our own ideas of perfection manifest, but we must be open to the idea that God's perfection may not look the way we want it to.”
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