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Author Events

Author Talks - Invite Me!
About Force of Nature - About the John Muir Trail - About the Art & Craft of Writing
For more information about any of these events, please email me.
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Author Talk & Book Signing
"Force of Nature & The JMT"

Friends of the Lincoln Library
Lincoln Library at Twelve Bridges
November 2024

Talks for Book Clubs / Hiking Clubs /
Service Groups / Women's Clubs

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  I am available to visit with you and your club/group members, either in-person or via Zoom.
  • I can discuss Force of Nature, the writing process, hiking in the Sierra Nevada, and/or the John Muir Trail. And I can answer your questions.
  • The Force of Nature Book Club Kit with discussion questions, food ideas, complimentary book titles & reference links to John Muir Trail history and maps is available to download.
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Upcoming Classes

  • In-Person & Zoom Classes at OLLI at Sierra College

  • Host of Author Interview Series at OLLI at Sierra College

  • Zoom Classes at OLLI at UC Davis

  • Service Organization Talks

Spotlight on Local Authors - Zoom Lunch Pail Series - OLLI at Sierra College
Spring, Summer, Fall Semesters 2024

I will act as the moderator of this monthly series of live, noon-time interviews on Zoom with authors. All are interesting local authors representing a variety of different genres. ALL proceeds go to the Sierra College Food Closet to support food-insecure students. Click here for all the details on the OLLI at Sierra website.

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OLLI at Sierra College
Fall Semester 2024

Strong Women - Strong Stories

Book Discussion Series

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Becoming Madam Secretary

by Stephanie Dray

 

The amazing story of the brilliant and bold Frances Perkins, first woman to serve in a Presidential Cabinet. This heroine, who was FDR's "right hand woman," left a huge legacy that includes our Social Security System.

In person & via Zoom

November 18, 25, December 2

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Online catalogue is available:

Read more & sign up here

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OLLI at Sierra College
Spring-Summer-Fall 2024

Lunch Pail Interview Series

Spotlight on Local Authors & Books

Host/Interviewer - Joan Griffin

Monthly Zoom Series

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Nov 15 - Patricia D Miller - Bamboo Secrets

Dec 6 - Gary Noys - Hellacious California

More to follow in 2025, Spring Semester:

  • Grant Faulkner

  • Anna Crowe, Narrator

  • Rosanne McHenry

  • Barbara Olson Lawrence

All proceeds from this series

go to Sierra College Food Closet

to support food-insecure students

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Catalogue & registration

are available online.

Read more & sign up here

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Talks Available for
Clubs & Groups

The Invention of the First Lady

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The first three First Ladies, Martha, Abigail, and Dolley, have vastly different personalities and brought very different strengths to the position. But between them, they created the role of First Lady out of thin air. In fact, not one of their husbands would have ended up in the White House had they not had these women as their partners.

Additional First Lady-themed talks/classes are available, too:

  • Individual First Ladies

  • "The Creation of the Modern First Lady"

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Shared with:

  • Emigrant Gap Chapter - DAR

  • Springfield History Club, Rocklin, CA

  • Lincoln AAUW

  • NC Professional Women's Groups

  • UC Davis OLLI Program

  • OLLI at Sierra College

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Available In-Person or via Zoom.

Contact me for more information about these and other talks I have available.

Past Classes, Talks, and Events

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OLLI at Sierra College

 

How Did I Not Know That?

Social Justice Series

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Books previously read in this series include:

  • The New Jim Crow

  • The Warmth of Other Suns

  • Just Mercy

  • The Sum of Us

  • How the Word Is Passed

  • Four Hundred Souls

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How Did I Not Know That?

Environmental Science Series

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Books previously read in this series include:

  • Finding the Mother Tree

  • Braiding Sweetgrass

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OLLI at Sierra College

Women's History Through Literature

Book Discussion Series

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  Books previously read in this series include:

  • The Women

  • Lessons in Chemistry

  • The Personal Librarian

  • Remarkably Bright Creatures

  • The Language of Flowers

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Summer Fun Reads

& Book Discussion

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Books previously read in this series include:

  • Daisy Jones & The Six

  • Finding Dorothy

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OLLI at UC Davis
Spring Semester 2023

 

History & Government

Discussion Series

Conversations with Historian Don Fraser

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  • Political Parties

  • It's Time to Amend the Constitution

  • Controversies in American History

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