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Nona Blyth Cloud has lived and worked in the Los Angeles area for over 50 years, spending much of that time commuting on the 405 Freeway. After Hollywood failed to appreciate her genius for acting and directing, she began a second career managing non-profits, from which she has retired. Nona has now resumed writing whatever comes into her head, instead of reports and pleas for funding. She lives in a small house overrun by books with her wonderful husband.

TCS: Memorial Day – For All We Know

Posted on May 28, 2018 by wordcloud9

Good Morning! ________________________________________________ Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early risers on Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum, so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole in your brainpan, feel free to add a … Continue reading →

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ON THIS DAY: May 27, 2018

Posted on May 27, 2018 by wordcloud9

May 27th is Amarone wine Day Cellophane Tape Day * Grape Popsicle Day _________________________________________ MORE! Dashiell Hammett, Faten Hamama and Barack Obama, click

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ON THIS DAY: May 26, 2018

Posted on May 26, 2018 by wordcloud9

May 26th is Paper Airplane Day Blueberry Cheesecake Day World Lindy Hop Day _________________________________________ MORE! Aleksandr Pushkin, Giuseppe Garibaldi and Mamie Smith, click

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ON THIS DAY: May 25, 2018

Posted on May 25, 2018 by wordcloud9

May 25th is National Brown-Bag It Day National Missing Children’s Day * National Tap Dance Day * National Wine Day Intergalactic Towel Day * _________________________________________ MORE! Igor Sikorsky, Jamaica Kincaid and Douglas Adams, click

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Word Cloud: ENCHANTER

Posted on May 25, 2018 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Elizabeth Coatsworth (1893-1986) is mostly remembered now as a very successful and honored children’s author. She won the 1931 Newbery Medal from the American Library Association for The Cat Who Went to Heaven, and in 1968 she was a highly commended … Continue reading →

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ON THIS DAY: May 24, 2018

Posted on May 24, 2018 by wordcloud9

May 24th is National Memory Day National Escargot Day National Scavenger Hunt Day World Schizophrenia Day * Aviation Maintenance Technician Day * _________________________________________ MORE! John Hancock, Sarah Hale and Joseph Brodsky, click

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A Poem for World Turtle Day

Posted on May 23, 2018 by wordcloud9

by Mary Oliver: The Turtle breaks from the blue-black skin of the water, dragging her shell with its mossy scutes across the shallows and through the rushes and over the mudflats, to the uprise, to the yellow sand, to dig … Continue reading →

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ON THIS DAY: May 23, 2018

Posted on May 23, 2018 by wordcloud9

May 23rd is National Taffy Day * National Lucky Penny Day World Turtle Day * _________________________________________ MORE! Ben Franklin, Margaret Fuller and Robert Moog, click

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ON THIS DAY: May 22, 2018

Posted on May 22, 2018 by wordcloud9

May 22nd is National Maritime Day * Sherlock Holmes Day * U.S. Colored Troops Day * Vanilla Pudding Day World Goth Day * International Day for Biological Diversity * _________________________________________ MORE! John Wycliffe, Mary Casatt and Arthur Conan Doyle, click

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ON THIS DAY: May 21, 2018

Posted on May 21, 2018 by wordcloud9

May 21st is American Red Cross Founder’s Day * National Memo Day National Waitstaff Day Strawberries ‘n Cream Day World Day for Cultural Diversity, for Dialogue and Development * _________________________________________ MORE! Albrecht Dürer, Clara Barton and Roald Amundsen, click

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