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The Life-Dividing Days

In writing my novel, which spans the years 1915-1928, I found inspiration by covering my walls with photos and quotes from that time period. I'll also be…

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Click to visit this blog post about my weird jealousy of Washington Irving, sacrifice and hard choices. Quotable Quotes, Book Quotes, Me Quotes, Pixar Quotes, F Scott Fitzgerald, Albus Dumbledore, Great Quotes, Quotes To Live By, Inspirational Quotes

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Albus Dumbledore

Quotes To Live By

Inspirational Quotes

My seething jealousy of Washington Irving

Click to visit this blog post about my weird jealousy of Washington Irving, sacrifice and hard choices.

Melissa Olson

The Life-Dividing Days

Click to visit this blog post about my weird jealousy of Washington Irving, sacrifice and hard choices. Quotable Quotes, Book Quotes, Me Quotes, Pixar Quotes, F Scott Fitzgerald, Albus Dumbledore, Great Quotes, Quotes To Live By, Inspirational Quotes

Quotable Quotes

F Scott Fitzgerald

Albus Dumbledore

Quotes To Live By

Inspirational Quotes

My seething jealousy of Washington Irving

Click to visit this blog post about my weird jealousy of Washington Irving, sacrifice and hard choices.

Melissa Olson

The Life-Dividing Days

Honored to have won the Author of the Month Award by Highlights for May, 2017! David Zinn, Magazines For Kids, Inspiration Wall, Street Artists, In Writing, 3 D, Awards, Highlights, Author

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Highlights article on street artist David Zinn leads to Author of the Month Award

Honored to have won the Author of the Month Award by Highlights for May, 2017!

These photos were taken at the Michigan Military Heritage Museum in Grass Lake, Michigan. Cool place to visit! Grass Lake, Battle Creek, Clean Life, Heritage Museum, Inspiration Wall, Lake Michigan, World War I, Wwi, The Life

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Honoring my favorite WWI Vet, Great Uncle Olie, in The Life-Dividing Days

These photos were taken at the Michigan Military Heritage Museum in Grass Lake, Michigan. Cool place to visit!

My Great Uncle Olie who was a gunner in WW1. Clean Life, World War I, Wwi, World War One

Honoring my favorite WWI Vet, Great Uncle Olie, in The Life-Dividing Days

My Great Uncle Olie who was a gunner in WW1.

Click on the photo to read my blog piece: When Real Life Seeps Into Fiction. Photo is of my mother who was adopted in the mid-30s. John Irving, Inspiration Wall, In Writing, The Conjuring, Growing Up, Good Books, Real Life, Fiction, Novels

Inspiration Wall

When Real Life Seeps Into Fiction

Click on the photo to read my blog piece: When Real Life Seeps Into Fiction. Photo is of my mother who was adopted in the mid-30s.

May Blog Piece: Honoring my favorite WWI Vet, Great Uncle Olie, in The Life-Dividing Days Clean Life, World War I, Wwi, The Life, Novels, Couple Photos, Blog, Couple Shots, World War One

Honoring my favorite WWI Vet, Great Uncle Olie, in The Life-Dividing Days

May Blog Piece: Honoring my favorite WWI Vet, Great Uncle Olie, in The Life-Dividing Days

Blog piece about: Poetry, dad, & dancing in the kitchen Dad Dancing, Dancing In The Kitchen, I Coming Home, Exciting News, Inspiration Wall, Poetry, Dads, Water, Blog

Dancing In The Kitchen

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Poetry, dad, & dancing in the kitchen

Blog piece about: Poetry, dad, & dancing in the kitchen

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Revising Pains & Epiphanies (Cont.)

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Revising Pains & Epiphanies

Blog piece about The Life-Dividing Days!

Blog about writing to elicit emotion. Summarizing Activities, Learning Maps, Elements Of Drama, Drama Words, Teacher Humour, Oh The Humanity, School Tomorrow, Writing Characters, Compare And Contrast

Summarizing Activities

Elements Of Drama

Oh The Humanity

School Tomorrow

Writing Characters

Compare And Contrast

‘Emotive Writing’ – What Novels Give You the “Feels”?

Blog about writing to elicit emotion.

Blog about emotive writing and Steinbeck's genius. I Love Books, Good Books, Books To Read, Book Cover Art, Book Cover Design, Into The Wild, Buch Design, Grapes Of Wrath, Poster Design

Book Cover Design

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Paths to Deliverance, in Literature and Life

Blog about emotive writing and Steinbeck's genius.

Blog about growing a thick skin as a writer. Webster University, Body Outline, Thick Skin, Waiting For Her, Inspiration Wall, Start Writing, Uplifting Quotes, Looking Up, Human Body

Webster University

Waiting For Her

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Uplifting Quotes

Growing a thick skin

Blog about growing a thick skin as a writer.

Blog about literature expanding people's worlds and awesome neighbors. I Love Books, Books To Read, Illustration, World Of Books, Book Nooks, Library Books, Book Nerd, Book Lovers, Literature

This Election - A Failure of the Imagination

Blog about literature expanding people's worlds and awesome neighbors.

My first blog piece - check it out! Inbound Marketing, Marketing Plan, Social Media Marketing, Marketing Process, Marketing Branding, Innovation Strategy, Adult Adhd, Questions To Ask, Public Relations

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My first blog piece - check it out!

bert williams in the 1910s | 1919-midnight-frolic-its-nobodys-business-but-my-own-bert-williams_f40 ... Old Sheet Music, Vintage Sheet Music, Music Sheets, Song Sheet, African American Actors, Make Mine Music, Americana Music, Ziegfeld Follies, Cinema

Old Sheet Music

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African American Actors

Make Mine Music

Americana Music

Ziegfeld Follies

Williams, Bert: selected sheet music and record label slide show and gallery, 1910-1920

bert williams in the 1910s | 1919-midnight-frolic-its-nobodys-business-but-my-own-bert-williams_f40 ...

Vintage B&W photos of black people Gladys, Louise, Stella & Friends American Photo, American Life, African American Fashion, Vintage Black Glamour, Love Pictures, Vintage Pictures, Black Image, African American History, Black History Month

African American Fashion

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Vintage B&W photos of black people Part 2

Vintage B&W photos of black people Gladys, Louise, Stella & Friends

WWI photo Raised Fist, Flanders Field, Thing 1, World War One, National Guard, World History, Wwi, Black History, Photo Greeting Cards

Photo Greeting Cards

Combat Divisions and Units WW1_Armistice_04

These suffragettes won the right to vote when the 19th amendment was passes in 1920. We think this march took place in New York City American Women, American History, American Press, Les Suffragettes, 19th Amendment, Suffrage Movement, Ville New York, Right To Vote, Feminism

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These suffragettes won the right to vote when the 19th amendment was passes in 1920. We think this march took place in New York City

Vintage African American Beauty | ... AIDA HAIR POMADE Tin African-American Black Aida Overton Walker N/R Mens Pomade, Hair Pomade, Superior Hair, African American Beauty, Vanity Box, Vintage Trunks, Black Hair Care, Drug Store, Safety Razor

African American Beauty

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Vintage African American Beauty | ... AIDA HAIR POMADE Tin African-American Black Aida Overton Walker N/R

Jazz was African American music of the 1920s, and spread out in Canada rapidly. Jazz music combined elements of ragtime, blues, spirituals, and band music. Charleston, Black Bottom and Fox Trot were the most popular dances. 1920s also known as The Jazz Age. It encouraged daring and energetic dances. Jazz involved to the people's life but also challenged some people's mind because of their suggestive movements. Some call these years the 'age of wonderful nonsense'. (Photography 1920) Louis Armstrong, Bill Johnson, Trombone, Clarinet, Roaring Twenties, The Twenties, Banjo, Ukulele, Guitar

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'King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, 1920' Photographic Print | AllPosters.com

Jazz was African American music of the 1920s, and spread out in Canada rapidly. Jazz music combined elements of ragtime, blues, spirituals, and band music. Charleston, Black Bottom and Fox Trot were the most popular dances. 1920s also known as The Jazz Age. It encouraged daring and energetic dances. Jazz involved to the people's life but also challenged some people's mind because of their suggestive movements. Some call these years the 'age of wonderful nonsense'. (Photography 1920)

The Life-Dividing Days

Madison County, Alabama. [African-American] agents and rural nurse with movable school. [The Booker T. Washington Agricultural School on Wheels.], 1923 Us History, African American History, History Facts, Black History, History Channel, Barbados, Jamaica, Honduras, Vintage Photographs

African American History

History Channel

Vintage Photographs

Madison County, Alabama. [African-American] agents and rural nurse with movable school. [The Booker T. Washington Agricultural School on Wheels.], 1923

Vintage Streetstyle: the 1920's - Page 5 - the Fashion Spot African American Fashion, African American History, American Women, Black Love, Black Is Beautiful, American Photo, Vintage Couples, Black Photography, Monochrome Photography

African American Fashion

African American History

Black Is Beautiful

Vintage Couples

Black Photography

Monochrome Photography

Vintage Streetstyle: the 1920's - Page 5

Vintage Streetstyle: the 1920's - Page 5 - the Fashion Spot

James Reese Europe was an American ragtime and early jazz bandleader, arranger, and composer. He was the leading figure on the African American music scene of New York City in the 1910s. During World War I Europe obtained a Commission in the New York Army National Guard, and saw combat as a lieutenant with the 369th Infantry Regiment (the "Harlem Hellfighters"). He directed the regimental band to great acclaim. Army National Guard, The Great, Thing 1, American Soldiers, World War One, African American History, Native American, Black History, Women's History

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Women's History

James Reese Europe (1881-1919) • BlackPast

James Reese Europe was an American ragtime and early jazz bandleader, arranger, and composer. He was the leading figure on the African American music scene of New York City in the 1910s. During World War I Europe obtained a Commission in the New York Army National Guard, and saw combat as a lieutenant with the 369th Infantry Regiment (the "Harlem Hellfighters"). He directed the regimental band to great acclaim.

Hose Company No. 4 | 1919 African American fire fighters stationed at Hose Company No. 4, Los Angeles, CA Black History Facts, Black History Month, Old Photos, Vintage Photos, Vintage Cards, American Firefighter, By Any Means Necessary, Black White, Black Men

Black History Facts

Black History Month

American Firefighter

By Any Means Necessary

Hose Company No. 4 | 1919

Hose Company No. 4 | 1919 African American fire fighters stationed at Hose Company No. 4, Los Angeles, CA