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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2022 AMELIA INDIE AUTHORS VIRTUAL BOOK FESTIVAL! -Where Independent Readers and Writers Meet – CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS I haven’t really been AWOL.. just writing a lot of book descriptions, and instructions and schedules, and… A quick recap for you. Nancy Blanton, award-winning author of 17th-century Irish historical fiction is a close friend and a neighbor here on Amelia Island. A few years ago, we started Amelia Indie Authors — a co-op designed to help independent authors raise the bar on what they…

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A Star is Born
June 28, 2013

Living Philanthropic – Day 340: Dreams For Kids
January 15, 2013

Pony Pirates at the Shrimp Festival
May 3, 2015
Health, Special Topics, Thinking, Writing and Reading

Gun Violence and Passive Voice

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It breaks my heart that gun violence has become an evergreen topic, but here we are. I won’t list them but the Gun Violence Archive does. It’s unsettling to look at the list and see how many of these terrible tragedies have already faded in memory. The following is an update of post that appeared here three years ago. ## What do you see when I say “passive?” Hankie-totin’ Southern ladies on their fainting couches? Perhaps a heroine, reenacting The Perils of Pauline, tied to the…

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Warm, Inspiring Book
August 11, 2015

3 Reasons to “Teach” Your Kids to Visualize
October 27, 2015

To Succeed
January 29, 2013
Thinking, Special Topics, Writing and Reading

What is Banned Books Week and Why You Should Care

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How often do you think about censorship? Banned books? I tend to think of censorship as it pertains to history — something that hasn’t happened much since the McCarthy era, right? So would you be surprised to find out that the American Library Association maintains a list of challenged (and sometimes banned) books by year? I was. I am disgusted by the concept of censorship. It’s not difficult to connect dots between banning certain books and trends in discrimination. Besides, learning to sort through ideas with which…

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I am grateful….
November 15, 2012

A Little Summer Fun
February 6, 2013

3 Ways to Painlessly Pooh-pooh the Plastic
April 29, 2020

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