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Uncle Bernie

April 5, 2018 By Nancy Casey

My grandmother was the second-to-the-last child in a huge Irish family.  When her parents died, she and her husband, Doc, the optometrist, inherited the three story Victorian house with the wrap around porches.  Along with the house came the bachelor uncles, the youngest of whom, Uncle Bernie, still lived there when I was a child. On Sundays when we got to our grandmother's, … [Read more...] about Uncle Bernie

Three Things

March 29, 2018 By Nancy Casey

Some of my earliest trips to Haiti were as a member of a teacher-training team. We conducted two-week programs for elementary and high school teachers, aimed to fill gaps in subject matter and methodology resulting from 200 years of isolation and poverty. One year, a lot of things went wrong. The workshops were free to the teachers but before we arrived, a local organizer … [Read more...] about Three Things

Remember the Darts?

March 16, 2018 By Nancy Casey

There’s a favorite story in my family that's only  three words long.  Remember the darts? Everyone remembers, so we all have a laugh and enjoy the story without anybody needing to tell it. We had just hung up a kid-style dart board in the basement.  The kind where the darts have rubber suctions cups on the end instead of lethal points.  It had the usual concentric rings, … [Read more...] about Remember the Darts?

Reasons for Haiti

March 9, 2018 By Nancy Casey

People go to Haiti for lots of reasons, some of which they understand. The first time I went there was in 1995.  I got off the plane in Port-au-Prince with a suitcase and the address of a group of Haitian nuns who lived in the countryside, in Pandiassou, in the northeast part of the country. The nuns weren’t what you ‘d expect.  The leader was perhaps in her 40s and none … [Read more...] about Reasons for Haiti

All You Gotta Do

March 1, 2018 By Nancy Casey

Quite a few years ago, in the summer of 1984, I was living the hard core back-to-the-land Idaho panhandle hippie dream.  Chopping wood and carrying water was the least of it.  Two babies in cloth diapers.  Scrubbing laundry on a board in a tub. Goats, two of them, to milk daily, and no refrigeration, so cheese, made from any milk we didn’t drink.  A garden, of course, with … [Read more...] about All You Gotta Do

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Nancy blogs weekly for the Latah Recovery Community Center, sharing writing ideas that support self-awareness and self-esteem.


Looking for an art project that is secretly full of math? Or a math project that results in interesting art? Equilateral Triangle is an Inquiry Pack full of project ideas that will keep you thinking for a long time.


Writing classes and workshops

In-person Write-For-You workshops at the Latah Recovery Center have been suspended for a bit, but you can still do the writing prompts on your own. For more information, about the Write for You program, or if you are in recovery and interested in writing coaching, contact Nancy.


 

Let’s Talk About It

This is a program that supports reading and discussion in libraries throughout the state of Idaho.

Working with the Program Committee, I updated the theme The Humanity of Science and Technology.


 

2021-22 Let’s Talk About It Discussions

November 10 – Tuesdays with Morrie – Clearwater Memorial Library – Orofino

 

November 18 – A Home Below Hells Canyon – Boise Basin District Library – Idaho City

 

February 8 – The Girl Who Fell From the Sky – Grangeville Centennial Library – Grangeville

 

February 15 – Sweet Promised Land – Garden Valley District Library – Garden Valley

 

March 23 – Less – Coeur d’Alene Public Library – Coeur d’Alene


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