Over the author's life, pieces of prose and poetry have been stored in a box and taken from place to place, often residing in an actual storage unit. It should come as no surprise, therefore, that many of these pieces not only fit into but amplify and deepen the text of the author's hybrid memoir, TIME SHARE: A REMEMBERED PAST, AN IMAGINED FUTURE, Rev. Ed.. This little book can be read as a companion to TIME SHARE RPIF, Rev. Ed. or on its own. The original TIME SHARE CONTAINS footnotes that correspond to the text of this companion piece, and the pieces in TIME SHARE: AN ARCHIVE OF MEMORIES are ordered as they most closely dovetail with the original TIME SHARE memoir.
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Prose and Poetry
DATE: July 17, 2021
TAGS: Biography, Prose and Poetry
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Walt Disney must have had a seriously conflicted childhood. The mothers in his movies are dead or absent, the fathers cannot protect their children from the world's bogeypersons, and the stepmothers are uniformly evil. Since the first song I remember is "Someday My Prince Will Come," and the first movie I remember is Cinderella, what hope did I have....
The young man in the bed seemed to have aged before his wife's eyes, his skin insubstantial and puffy, his hair flattened to his head from fever, the dehydration he was experiencing taking the firmness of the flesh of his arms and legs. He was too weak to rise for any reason, and she began to understand he might not leave this bed....
Nancy Atherton Buell was born in Oregon, but spent over half of her life in Alaska with her husband of 50 years and a succession of springer spaniels. She lived in Barrow, Anchorage, Juneau and Kenai, and is now retired to Oregon. Having found her creative voice and the time to use it, she writes every day in her studio.
Nancy has been an educator at every level, from public school to university.
After she retired, she made and sold jewelry, and processed large quantities of fish. Occasionally wrote an educational product. And then, one day, found the bankers box containing all of her youthful poetry and prose. Since then, in her new writing and jewelry studio, she writes, edits, and waits for the next poem to visit.
Key to all of Nancy’s work, and no less in the poetry, is a profound sense of “place,” and how that influences human life. All of her prose vividly describes not only Alaska, but the other places in the nation and in Mexico and Canada to which the characters travel.
NOVELS
2024 - The Radish Hole
2023 - AWOL
2022 - Distant Early Warning
2021 - Just Politics
OTHER WORKS
2021 - Time Share Addendum
2020 - Time Share
POETRY
2024 - Ways in the Labyrinth