https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxMd6FLsDxfa3N6bXIrX7V8VmQL8G2JUf Embark on a Whimsical Journey with "The Caretaker of Tree Palace" - Now Available as a Free Audiobook on YouTube! 🎧🌳 I'm thrilled to share some exciting news with you. My book, "The Caretaker of Tree Palace," originally published in 2006 by Longhorn Creek Press, has found a new home on YouTube as a... Continue Reading →
Writing Prompt Journal: Published in Paperback Only!
A Joy Station Workbook: 101 Writing Prompts, Vol. 1 Daily creative writing prompts journal for adults or teens 101 writing prompts. One on each page. Great warm-ups to get your creative juices flowing or for self-discovery. Writing in freehand so your body can chime in with first-hand wisdom. Small enough to pop in your bag... Continue Reading →
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Poem: “Rake”
Frozen-finger claw reaches from my hands blisters where I hold too tightly scraping at the surface of things dragging away death— remnants of things once green I try not to disturb what lives. Overhead, the wind loosens the hold of a hundred leaves. They rain down, no more attachment left, surrendered to the soil, sacrifices... Continue Reading →
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Late-20th-Century Selfie: Camping
Spring Break 1994, Elsa and I went camping. This was our last spring break as students, since we were both completing our master's degrees in education that year. I had already started working as a long-term substitute teacher in the school district where Elsa and I had met and become friends in the late '80s.... Continue Reading →
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Late-20th-Century Selfie: Thanksgiving
Some holidays are so much like all the other holidays that they run together with the other ones in a big holiday soup. It's difficult to distinguish one from the next. This late-20th-century selfie was not from one of those holidays. I'm posing here with my brother, Tracy. This was the Thanksgiving that my half-sister,... Continue Reading →
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Late-20th-Century Selfie: Santa and Me
Who doesn't love a Santa Selfie? I remember explaining to this particular Santa what I wanted to do because the term selfie didn't exist yet. "Can I take a picture of us together, but, you know the kind where someone holds the camera out like this, and the picture is just two big faces?"... Continue Reading →
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Questions for the Sphinx
I spent about half an hour gazing at the Sphinx that’s a part of the British Musuem's internationally touring “The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece” exhibition now at the Dallas Museum of Art (through October 6, 2013). I had seen the exhibit a few weeks ago and dutifully read all the descriptions and spent time... Continue Reading →
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Ada’s Diet: One Day in January 1879
From December 16, 1878 to January 14, 1879, Englishwoman Madame Ada Anderson walked 2,700 quarter miles in 2,700 quarter hours at Mozart Garden in Brooklyn, NY. As news spread of her extraordinary endurance walk, her fame as a pedestrienne grew. For those who weren’t able to attend the 28-day walk by the performer-turned-athlete, the newspapers of the day reported her... Continue Reading →
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Lady Walkers Video: Champion Pedestrians, Daniel O’Leary and Frank Hart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab4cZOwnmGw
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Before the Lady Walkers: The Father of Modern Pedestrianism (video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEBbw9DEGYQ
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Lady Walkers: Setting up the First Major Women’s Endurance Race, January 1876
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg9PyaAIi50
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Late-20th-Century Selfie: Camping ’94
Spring Break 1994, Elsa and I went camping. This was our last spring break as students, since we were both completing our master's degrees in education that year. I had already started working as a long-term substitute teacher in the school district where Elsa and I had met and become friends in the late '80s.... Continue Reading →
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Late-20th-Century Selfie: Thanksgiving, late 90s
Some holidays are so much like all the other holidays that they run together with the other ones in a big holiday soup. It's difficult to distinguish one from the next. This late-20th-century selfie was not from one of those holidays. I'm posing here with my brother, Tracy. This was the Thanksgiving that my half-sister,... Continue Reading →
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Late-20th-Century Selfie: December 1989
Who doesn't love a Santa Selfie? I remember explaining to this particular Santa what I wanted to do because the term selfie didn't exist yet. "Can I take a picture of us together, but, you know the kind where someone holds the camera out like this, and the picture is just two big faces?"... Continue Reading →
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The Caretake of Tree Palace (kids’ novel)
Caretaker of Tree Palace, The Author: C. Dawn McCallum Product Code: CTPH ISBN: 978-097640263-3 Publisher: Longhorn Creek Press Pages: 117 Binding Information: Hardcover Size: 5 3/4" X 8 3/4" Inches Availability: In stock. What do you do you go when everything in your life is changing?Twelve-year-old Doodles retreats to the pages of his ratty notebook where he can draw his own world. After his... Continue Reading →
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Questions for the Sphinx
I spent about half an hour gazing at the Sphinx that’s a part of the British Musuem's internationally touring “The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece” exhibition now at the Dallas Museum of Art (through October 6, 2013). I had seen the exhibit a few weeks ago and dutifully read all the descriptions and spent time... Continue Reading →
C. Dawn McCallum 