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I’m Nancie and I wrote this book…

…and now I write this blog. Here I share my thoughts about topics that hide behind the links in the left sidebar.

My book, Tea with Dad, Finding Myself in My Father’s Life (Green Place Books) comes out June 1, 2021. Check your local independent bookstore. You can also preorder it at Bookshop.org, Indiebound.org, Amazon.com, or Barnesandnoble.com. These links will take you right to the information about the book on those sites.

I’m glad you dropped by. Get to know me. Let me get to know you. I hope this visit won’t be your last.

All in Prompts

Mar 3

Mar 3 Prompts: Don't Give Up on February

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That week Mother Nature seemed to have tossed her testy toddler, February, out to let spring in early, but back it came.

Feb 25

Feb 25 Prompts: Lean Into the Fog

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I look for prompts. Then find seventeen syllables to describe what I see or what I’m feeling.

Jan 28

Jan 28 Prompts: Control

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Dec 17

Dec 17 Prompts: How to, If You Want to

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If you are having a hard time coming up with an idea to kickstart your hand's movement across the page or your keyboard, check out this section of the blog.

Dec 15

Dec 15 Fog, Sand, and Water

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Dec 12

Dec 12 Start with Seventeen Syllables. End with a Book.

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Prompts, Haiku, Write

After many attempts at resuscitating my muse, I found inspiration by accident.

Nov 19

Nov 19 Riverhead of Words

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Prompts, Haiku, Write

By the time it became necessary to move into my father’s home, the words I’d internalized had formed a huge wall between my thoughts and feelings—like a clogged drain—a mass that backed up in me, almost choking me.