Dia de los Muertos – Nancy Schoellkopf

1 Nov, 2024

Blue

Nancy Admin2024-11-01T06:00:00+00:00Categories: Dia de los Muertos, Grief, Magical Realism, Memory, Musings|Tags: accidents, Day of the Dead, death, Dia de lost Muertos, Expansion of Human Consciousness, Grief, Magical realism, mysticism, Prayer, Writing|

I started writing this piece about my friend Craig several years ago. I thought I had lost it, but I found it again as I was purging files this summer. [...]

30 Oct, 2020

Sheltering, Part 4

Nancy Admin2020-10-30T06:00:00+00:00Categories: 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+00:00Categories: 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, [...]

1 Nov, 2018

Dia De Los Muertos

Nancy Admin2018-11-01T13:00:28+00:00Categories: Dia de los Muertos, Families, Forgiveness, Grief, Musings, Prayer, Reality, Spirituality, Uncategorized|Tags: death, Forgiveness|

The prompt for this one was "nature's tranquilizer." This is where it led. I had one of those nights when I thought I couldn’t sleep, when I thought my mind [...]

25 Oct, 2018

They are Coming

Nancy Admin2018-10-25T13:00:44+00:00Categories: Dia de los Muertos, Halloween, Holidays, Musings|Tags: crows, ghosts, haunting|

At dusk, when the day turns orange, then pink, then purple, spanning the color spectrum in the time it takes to walk home from the park, the ghosts come out. [...]