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Path to Writing: Chapter I of A Mother's View on Spina Bifida

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Class assignments are published here, under constant revision. Friday, April 3, 2015. Chapter I of A Mother's View on Spina Bifida. 1969 – 1976 (in the beginning). Avenue in Odessa. Pots and pans, comforters, sheets, and other mostly household items necessary for homemaking, all could be had for exchange of her neatly filled green stamp books, carefully hoarded until redemption. As we slowly wended across country, our typewriter, clothing and boxes piled high on the back seat of the old Chevy. We drove d...

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Path to Writing: April 2015

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Class assignments are published here, under constant revision. Saturday, April 25, 2015. Seder Dinner, My First. Passover was approaching that spring. I was invited to Mike's home for the Seder dinner. A bit apprehensive about the upcoming evening, I asked my grandmother what to expect. She advised me of the menu, explained a bit about it, and told me "Nancy, it is an honor that you have been invited to partake of this meal. They are sharing their faith with you.". The recited blessing sanctifying Shabbat.

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Path to Writing: Seder Dinner, My First

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Class assignments are published here, under constant revision. Saturday, April 25, 2015. Seder Dinner, My First. Passover was approaching that spring. I was invited to Mike's home for the Seder dinner. A bit apprehensive about the upcoming evening, I asked my grandmother what to expect. She advised me of the menu, explained a bit about it, and told me "Nancy, it is an honor that you have been invited to partake of this meal. They are sharing their faith with you.". The recited blessing sanctifying Shabbat.

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Path to Writing: February 2015

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Class assignments are published here, under constant revision. Saturday, February 28, 2015. My Cardboard Refrigerator Box. Note what was strange, odd, weird, or bewildering - our ancestral memories, recovered – transform them into the richness of narrative. My Cardboard Refrigerator Box. Drawing pictures with crayons on school lined Big Chief tablet paper, I began to decorate the inside of the refrigerator box, making it my fantasy home. Someone (my older brother? I envisioned forever living in this box,...

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Path to Writing: Book Chapter Titles for Julie's Story of Spina Bifida

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Class assignments are published here, under constant revision. Wednesday, April 1, 2015. Book Chapter Titles for Julie's Story of Spina Bifida. The Beginning (1969-70) (pp 1 - 8). Shunts (definition, etc.) (5 pages at 4/2/15). Resources (National Spina Bifida Assn, etc.). Labels: Book Chapter Titles. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Nancy's Arts * Crafts. Point of View in Literature. 500 Words a Day. I’m Thinking. Please. Be Quiet. GEORGE PROCHNIK. Other Blogs I Write. Nancy's Arts * Crafts. Oils and ...

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Path to Writing: March 2015

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Class assignments are published here, under constant revision. Sunday, March 29, 2015. The Path of Waiting. An excerpt from Henri Nouwen's. Finding My Way Home. Passion is a kind of waiting - waiting for what other people are going to do. Jesus went to Jerusalem to announce the good news to the people of that city. And Jesus knew that he was going to put a choice before them: Will you be my disciple, or will you be my executioner? Betray him or follow him? Friday, March 27, 2015. Brunette murmurs. Mo...

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Path to Writing: March of Dimes in Denver

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Class assignments are published here, under constant revision. Monday, April 6, 2015. March of Dimes in Denver. Post Script: Baby Kai is a friend's grand-nephew. Support the March of Dimes in any way you can. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Nancy's Arts * Crafts. Point of View in Literature. 500 Words a Day. Human speech is like a cracked pot on which we beat out rhythms for bears to dance to when we are striving to make music that will wring tears from the stars." Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary.

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Path to Writing: Notes from April 14: Fiction and Publication

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Class assignments are published here, under constant revision. Wednesday, April 15, 2015. Notes from April 14: Fiction and Publication. Your difficulties are not obstacles on the path; they are the path." Ezra Bayda. Write with your passionate heart, but edit with your calm brain." Dinty Moore, The Mindful Writer. Brief discussion of Dialogue sheet and two stories by Emma Donoghue, "Onward" and "Last Supper at Brown's" from Astray. Note to self: Look at The House on Mango Street. What you want to bet?

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Path to Writing: January 2015

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Class assignments are published here, under constant revision. Saturday, January 31, 2015. Next and More Chapters. In spite of heartache, there have been many positive, bittersweet successes for Julie:. Julie has worked for as a receptionist, using public transportation via her wheelchair;. Julie completed a college education;. Julie has resided independently both as a single and married woman;. Julie has maintained an 18 year long, loving marriage to a man having the same handicap of spina bifida;.