Nancy Admin, Author at Nancy Schoellkopf

25 Dec, 2020

Happy Holidays!

Nancy Admin2020-12-25T06:00:00-08:00Categories: Christmas, Solstice, Winter|

Wishing you a Blessed Solstice, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year! I'm feeling the need for a long winter's nap. See you in January. . . Photo by Ben White on [...]

18 Dec, 2020

Meditation on an Advent Wreath

Nancy Admin2020-12-18T06:00:00-08:00Categories: Advent, Christmas, Current Events, Holidays, home, Hope, Imagination, Joy, Light, Musings, Reality, Spirituality, Winter, Winter Weather|Tags: Advent, Advent wreath, Christmas, Solstice, Winter|

Greetings! This week I've updated a Christmas post from a few years past. It seems more meaningful than ever right now. Long ago, in the pagan cultures of the far [...]

11 Dec, 2020

Read-Aloud Picture Books

Nancy Admin2020-12-11T06:00:00-08:00Categories: Book Reviews, Books, Children, Christmas, Creativity, Current Events, Families, Holidays, home, Imagination, Parenting, Winter, Winter Weather, Writing|Tags: A Visit from Saint Nicholas, Barnabas and Anabel Kindersley, books, Catherine cowan, Children Just Like Me, Cooper Edens, Craig Hatkoff, Daniel Lane, Dr. Paula Kahumbu, Isabella Hatkoff, Janell Cannon, Mark Buehner, My Life with the Wave, Octavio Paz, Owen and Mzee, Peter Greste, Santa Cows, Stellaluna, UNICEF|

Last week I listed a few of my favorite books for cold weather reading and gifting. This week, allow me to tell you about a few of my favorite read-aloud picture [...]

4 Dec, 2020

Celebrating Books

Nancy Admin2020-12-04T06:00:00-08:00Categories: Book Reviews, Books, Christmas, Current Events, Holidays, home, Imagination, Literature, Musings, Sheltering-in-Place, Winter, Winter Weather|Tags: Barbara Kingsolver, books, George Saunders, Margaret Atwood, Michelle Obama, Ursula LeGuin|

I’ve heard it said that Russian novels are so long because Russian winters are so cold! What better way to spend time inside than reading a book? In Iceland I hear [...]

20 Nov, 2020

Happy Thanksgiving Week!

Nancy Admin2020-11-20T06:00:00-08:00Categories: Autumn, Covid 19, Current Events, Families, Holidays, home, Hope, Illness, Sheltering-in-Place, Thanksgiving|Tags: Covid19, current events, Family, Gratitude, Health, Health Advice, Prayer, Safety, Thanksgiving|

If you and your loved ones are safe and healthy this year, then you have reason to be thankful. Please do all you can to stay that way! The safest thing [...]

13 Nov, 2020

Greetings

Nancy Admin2020-11-13T06:00:00-08:00Categories: Autumn, Creativity, Current Events, home, Hope, Musings, Reality|Tags: Birds, gardens, plastic flamingos|

My cat Zuzu and I just spent a contemplative ten minutes watching a bird darting about the branches of the camellia bushes that grow just outside my dining room window. [...]

6 Nov, 2020

New Names

Nancy Admin2020-11-06T08:59:00-08:00Categories: Autumn, Flash Fiction, Grace, Imagination, Magical Realism, Marriage, romance, Travel|Tags: bracelet, constellations, couples, cows, Elderhostel, Flash Fiction, lipstick, mandala, Milky Way, stars, travel|

Written with my Thursday night group with the prompts: northern sky, bangle dangle, early bus to Prague, hallway, blue goose, cool breeze take me somewhere, safer that way, 47 shades of [...]

30 Oct, 2020

Sheltering, Part 4

Nancy Admin2020-10-30T06:00:00-07:00Categories: Autumn, Books, Covid 19, Creativity, Current Events, Dia de los Muertos, Dream fulfilled, Election Day, Halloween, Holidays, home, Hope, Imagination, Joy, Literature, Magical Realism, Musings, Mythology, Prayer, Reality, Sheltering-in-Place, Soul, Spirituality, Writing|Tags: Dia De Los Muertos, Divine Energy, Election Day, Emotions, Halloween, Introversion, novels, Prayer, Sacredness, Samhain, Sheltering, Spirituality, Truth, Writing|

We’ve all been “sheltering” now, to one degree or another, for seven and a half months. Initially I was both alarmed and secretly pleased—because suddenly I could be my introvert self [...]

23 Oct, 2020

Memorie and the Coyote

Nancy Admin2020-10-23T06:00:00-07:00Categories: Apparitions, Autumn, Creativity, Current Events, Dia de los Muertos, dreamscape, Feminism, Flash Fiction, Halloween, home, Imagination, Magical Realism, Mythology, Pets, Reality, Soul, Writing|Tags: canines, coyotes, felines, Mystery, mysticism, nature, Poetry, wild|

This is a reprint of one of my most popular stories, a fun little mystery for October. Enjoy! Memorie is in a cozy pace, propped up with pillows and notebook, [...]

16 Oct, 2020

Extra Bread

Nancy Admin2020-10-16T06:00:00-07:00Categories: Baking, Families, Flash Fiction, home, Hope, Humor, Imagination, Magical Realism, Memory, romance, Writing|Tags: bread, donuts, marriage, romance|

Written with my Thursday night writing group with the following prompts: extra bread, to this day, time and place, small injuries, new sense of dread, donut shop, marvelous, no more [...]

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