Imagination

12 Feb, 2021

The Saga of Charlie and Mabel

Nancy Admin2021-02-12T06:00:00-08:00Categories: Creativity, Flash Fiction, Food, Humor, Imagination, Magical Realism, romance, Valentine's Day|Tags: love potion, love story, magic, magic spell, romance|

As a Valentine treat, I'm reviving a little romantic tale of an amorous, adventurous couple. Charlie was a regular guy living a regular life. Then he met Mabel and he slipped [...]

5 Feb, 2021

Dot Dot Dot

Nancy Admin2021-02-05T06:00:00-08:00Categories: Apparitions, Creativity, dreamscape, Hope, Imagination, Magical Realism, Memory, Musings, Poetry, Possibility, Writing|Tags: Anderson Cooper, Dictionary definition, garden, Morse Code, Poetry, Writing|

Anderson Cooper came by my house to repair the busted slats on my back fence and to tell me I use too many ellipses in my writing. I told [...]

29 Jan, 2021

Twelve Dreams of Fiji

Nancy Admin2021-01-29T06:00:00-08:00Categories: dreamscape, Flash Fiction, Grief, home, Hope, Imagination, Light, Magical Realism, Travel|Tags: chardonnay, Fiji, Flash Fiction, ocean, rum|

Written with my Thursday night writing group with the prompts: couldn’t find my keys, night in Fiji, half-life, listening to trees, embracing endings, where shall we go, plumeria I dug in [...]

15 Jan, 2021

What I Miss Most

Nancy Admin2021-01-15T06:00:00-08:00Categories: Covid 19, dreamscape, Food, Imagination, Magical Realism, Musings, Writing|Tags: Americo's, Bud's Ice Cream, Dreaming, Espanol Restaurant, La Semilla, midtown Sacramento, New Helvetia Coffee House, Three Sisters, Writing, Yum's I Dream Ice Cream|

I wrote this a month ago with my Thursday night writing group, and I didn’t use too many of the prompts, though I did use these: out to lunch, for whose [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]