Current Events

9 Apr, 2021

For My Mother and Other Collectors of Strays

Nancy Admin2021-04-09T06:00:00-07:00Categories: Aging, Coming of Age, Creativity, Current Events, Families, Hope, Imagination, Memory, Musings, National Poetry Month, Poetry, Possibility, Writing|Tags: Mentors, Moms, National Poetry Month, Poetry|

April is National Poetry Month! I've dug down deep for this one, written for my Mom at least 30 years ago when she was the age that I am now. [...]

2 Apr, 2021

Easter Greetings/Pandemic Edition

Nancy Admin2021-04-02T06:00:00-07:00Categories: Current Events, Easter, Families, Grace, Holidays, home, Hope, Joy, Musings, Prayer, Spirituality, Spring|Tags: Easter, Good Friday, good works, holidays, Jesus, Kennedy family, Pandemic, same sex couples, Special Olympics, Tim Shriver|

I think I can say without fear of contradiction that this has been a weird year. And hey!--suddenly, it's Easter again. It feels rather surreal. Like many people, I have [...]

22 Jan, 2021

My Capitol

Nancy Admin2021-01-22T06:00:00-08:00Categories: Current Events, Families, home, Hope, Memory, Musings, Prayer|Tags: capitol buildings, devotion, home, inauguration, January 6th 2021, public service, state capitals|

I have lived in the city of Sacramento, the capital of California, my entire life. So it was disturbing a few weeks ago to learn that alt right organizations were threatening [...]

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. [...]

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, [...]