Women's Voices
Short Stories, Essays, Novels
My Novels
Cedar Post Chronicles: a serial novel
Small towns in the U.S.A. are much like the small towns portrayed in the mystery novels of England. Where everyone knows everything about everyone, yet it turns out that very few residents truly know the people with whom they share daily play and work. Cedar Post is a small town in eastern New Mexico, set in early 1950s, and Miss Clarke is the amateur detective whose age allows her to mingle and ask questions.
Blog: Women's Voices
The new "masculinism" that America's right wing embraces.
The "masculinism" and "tradwife" movements are destined to be cruel. They are built on fantasy, and the subjugation of America's women to these movements' policy changes will be horrific.
Don't Let Me Fence In Myself
We are fortunate to live into old age. But our fortune is not about comfortable retirement, rest, good health, routine, protection, independence, forgiveness, or our family’s respect. Our fortune is about Awakening, aspiring to be better learners, replacing old beliefs with new ones, hoping for reconciliation, helping others because we have fewer distractions and wider opportunities, seeking new challenges because challenges fuel appetites and whet energy.
Documentary: "Democracy Under Seige"
The documentary, "Democracy Under Seige" is about our loss of a responsible free press under this Trump Administration.
America's Far Right GOP
The U.S.A. cannot recover quickly from the chaos and damage done in the last ten years. The Republican party owns the chaos and damage. They own it, they profit from it, they do not want to fix it.
Hate, Divide, and Misinformation
Willful ignorance will not make our lives or our grandchildren’s lives any better. Willful ignorance is a cancer, and Americans’ reliance on confirmation bias is the catalyst.
On institutional racism and how Truths survive in fertile soil.
Empathy is the antidote to institutional racism. If the U.S.A. were to embrace Empathy and Justice and Truth as its standard, we could defeat the racism that owns our institutions and industries.
Reliable Journalism and News Analysis
I intend to do more sharing from the news and information that I regularly digest. These are reliable, trustworthy sources of news and information, as well as authoritative analyses of the stories that corporate news agencies pass over.
Culture Wars, Distractions, Truth
Perhaps the most successful distraction of all was this one: while Texas voters decried abortion rights, public school indoctrination, liberal elites, LGBTQ people, and whether women should work outside the home or lead a nation, the Texas government grew its autocratic power. Texans can dance the two-step, throw a football, wrestle a steer, shrink their blue jeans, build a mini-mansion, vacation in Galveston, ban books about LGBTQ characters in their school libraries, support MAGA, or boycott DEI programs all day and every which way but, they cannot undo without a revolution the Republican’s corrupt authoritarian power in Austin.
What in Tarnation?!!
Many are finally saying aloud what has been noticeable and true since the 1980s: Donald J Trump has below average intelligence, is willfully ignorant, and uses school-boy arrogance to deflect. Many are finally saying aloud what has been noticeable and true since 2024: Donald J Trump’s mental health is deteriorating to such an extent that he should not chair his own businesses much less a nation. He is irrational, erratic, and unreliable.
Not Conservatives
Calling today's Republican leader, MAGA member, loyal GOP voter, or Far-Right internet influencer a Conservative is deceptive, unreasonable, and prejudicial.
Ending Child Exploitation: Part 2
Where children grow up seeing pedophiles and rapists protected because they are the wealthy and powerful adults in political, business, and religious circles, the society raises another generation of powerful pedophiles and rapists. Where children know they lack healthcare, food, and shelter because their government funds billionaires and the military industry, society bears the fruit of its angriest citizens.
I'm Doing This for You
Older brother must leave and report to Camp Hale Colorado. How does he say goodbye to his twelve year old brother?
Read MoreAbout Nancy Jean
I've lived in New Mexico, Texas, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Missouri, and Alaska -- not in this order. Albuquerque is my current home. I also enjoy, since my retirement from teaching in the classroom, traveling to visit new places, meeting new people, learning new ideas and broadening my experiences. My travels to places like Puerto Rico, Austria, Germany and throughout the United States inspire creative ideas.
My books, Little Texas and Pease River Revival are now available as ebooks in most online bookstores. Currently, I am pursuing the completion of three other books while other projects like painting and sewing fall to the wayside. I know that I must give my full attention to one project at a time but, what's the fun in that!
Thank you for visiting my work on this site. Please contact me. I would love to hear from my readers. Read to Learn; Write to Learn!
I DO NOT USE AI TO GENERATE MY BLOGS, MY SHORT STORIES, OR MY BOOKS. I WILL NEVER USE AI TO GENERATE CREATIVE IDEAS OR CONTENT. NEVER. I OPPOSE THE USE OF AI IN ANY CREATIVE WORK.
