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2 Jul, 2021

Happy Fourth of July!

Nancy Admin2021-07-02T06:00:00-07:00Categories: 4th of July, Current Events, Families, Holidays, home|Tags: 4th of July, affirmation, celebration, Independence Day, Prayer, Safety|

I pray and affirm that the people of our country are compassionate and kind. We believe in fairness, democracy, and freedom for all. We are willing to work hard to [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

4 Sep, 2020

Happy Labor Day

Nancy Admin2020-09-04T06:00:25-07:00Categories: Current Events, Holidays, Labor Day Weekend, Memory, Pets, Prayer, Sacramento, Summer|Tags: Endurance, Labor Day, Pandemic, Persistence, Photos, Summer Vacation|

This Labor Day Weekend, I'm celebrating persistence and endurance as we make it through a second season of this Worldwide Pandemic. I continue to offer affirmations and prayers for better [...]

3 Jul, 2020

Pray For Our Country

Nancy Admin2020-07-03T06:00:53-07:00Categories: 4th of July, Covid 19, Creativity, Current Events, Grace, Grief, Holidays, Hope, Illness, Joy, Musings, Prayer, Soul, Spirituality, Summer|Tags: God, Prayer, religion, the nature of reality|

I had something else laid out and ready to go this week, but coming up on the Independence Day Holiday, I felt a need to say something more. When [...]

19 Jun, 2020

How Madelaine Survives Quarantine

Nancy Admin2020-06-19T06:00:33-07:00Categories: Books, Christmas, Covid 19, Creativity, Current Events, Dream fulfilled, Flash Fiction, Holidays, home, Hope, Humor, Joy, Literature, Sheltering-in-Place, Writing|Tags: Flash Fiction, Genres, Quarantine, Writing|

Written with my Thursday night writing group (now meeting on Zoom!) with the prompts: one red shoe and oh, dear. Madelaine wore one red shoe and one green shoe because [...]