Sacramento Archives - Nancy Schoellkopf

29 Apr, 2022

Delta Breeze

Nancy Admin2022-04-29T06:00:00-07:00Categories: National Poetry Month, Poetry, Sacramento, Summer|Tags: breeze, delta, Divine, heat, Sacramento River, Sacramento Valley, San Francisco Bay, Spirituality, Summer|

One more poem of mine to finish up National Poetry Month Tonight you sit on the front steps facing south beckoning me with your dry lips your moist fingers. I [...]

12 Mar, 2021

Immigrant

Nancy Admin2021-03-12T06:00:00-08:00Categories: Creativity, Families, Hope, Ireland, Joy, Poetry, Possibility, Sacramento, Saint Patrick's Day, Soul, Spring|Tags: apricot, California, Donegal, fuchsia, hawks, herons, orange blossoms, rhododendron, Sacramento River|

i Blades not sharp or brutal but tender and yielding to the weight of my bare feet sprout on this thin layer of soil that hugs the Donegal coast. I [...]

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 [...]

10 Jul, 2020

Time to Re-Open Schools?

Nancy Admin2020-07-10T06:00:15-07:00Categories: Children, Covid 19, Creativity, Current Events, Demonstrations and Protests, Families, home, Hope, Musings, Prayer, Reality, Sacramento, Sheltering-in-Place, Teaching, Writing|Tags: Betsy DeVos, Classroom instruction, Corona Virus Testing, Health, Instructional Delivery, Poverty, Republican president, Schools|

This week when the Republican President and his entitled Secretary of Education demanded that public schools open full time/full service this fall, virus or no virus, OR they would lose [...]

15 Nov, 2019

Book News!

Nancy Admin2019-11-15T06:00:49-08:00Categories: Baking, Book Reviews, Books, Christmas, Dream fulfilled, Food, Holidays, Literature, Magical Realism, Oranges, Sacramento, Thanksgiving, Winter|Tags: Baking, books, buy, Christmas Faire, gifts, holiday treats, holidays, Oranges, Sacramento events, sales|

Here in California it remains unseasonably warm, so it's hard to believe that the holidays are right abound the corner. I want to let you know that all the paperback [...]

21 Jun, 2019

In Celebration of the Solstice: Abundance

Nancy Admin2019-06-21T04:42:06-07:00Categories: Food, Joy, Poetry, Sacramento, Summer|Tags: Abundance, California, nature, Peaches, Summer Solstice|

In early June comes a five-day period when every peach on the tree arrives at a perfect skin-splitting ripeness and you race the birds rushing into the back yard with [...]

5 Apr, 2018

Say His Name

Nancy Admin2018-04-05T06:03:25-07:00Categories: Current Events, Forgiveness, Grief, home, Prayer, Sacramento, Spirituality|Tags: current events, Daniel Hanh, Darrell Steinberg, Grace, Prayer, Sacramento, Stephon Clark|

My home town Sacramento has been in the news more often than usual lately. We received a lot of positive press when Greta Gerwig started filming her movies right here [...]