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Mary Mackey, author
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Poet, New York Times bestselling author of Paleolithic Era novels, nonfiction writer, award-winning screenwriter.

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Newgrange: A 5,000-year-old Cosmic Monument That Predates the Pyramids by 500 years

https://tinyurl.com/5eajh5bc

#Newgrange #Neolithic
November 16, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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America Recycles Day, also known as National Recycling Day, takes place every year on November 15.

The day is dedicated to raising awareness about recycling practices, promoting the purchase of recycled products, and encouraging waste reduction.

#AmericaRecyclesDay
November 15, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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“Compassion is at the heart of every little thing we do. It is the dearest quality we possess. Yet all too often it can be cast aside with consequences too tragic to speak of. To lose our compassion, we lose what it is to be human.”

– Anonymous

#compassion
November 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Poetry, in its own way, allows for the opening of minds, and the expansion of perspective.

#PoetryLovers #poems #poetry #PoetrySky
November 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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“I love Mary Mackey's poems. She writes of life, death, love, and passion with an intensity and grace that leave me breathless.”

-Amazon review

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November 14, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Hear about why, in 1986, a New York editor rejected California Burning, my (still-unpublished) novel about wildfires and climate change) by saying: “No one cares about California.”

https://tinyurl.com/36nmasdj

#poet #CaliforniaWildfires
November 13, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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History lessons for teachers at new archaeological site

https://tinyurl.com/2y8h7deh

#Neolithic #NeolithicPeriod #NeolithicEurope
November 13, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Immersion was the first feminist novel published by a Second Wave feminist press, and is thus quite possibly the first eco-feminist novel ever published.

https://loom.ly/L7AyhmA

#fiction #ecofeminism
November 13, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Featured Member Interview: Women’s National Book Association/San Francisco Chapter

Sara Amani interviews WNBA member Mary Mackey

https://tinyurl.com/ybxz4rcm

#PoetryLovers #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky
November 12, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Earliest Human Settlement on the Arabian Peninsula Uncovered

Read more: https://tinyurl.com/5n7xrczm

#Neolithic #NeolithicPeriod
November 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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“Mackey has made a unique contribution to anthropologically based fiction with her novels dealing with the pre-historic cultural transition from earth mother to sky god.”

-Amazon review

https://loom.ly/HZGijFc

#HistoricalFiction
November 12, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Zack Rogow interviews Mary Mackey on his blog Advice For Writers

https://tinyurl.com/2p9zbvph

#poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky
November 11, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Secrets of 5,000 year old 'Spanish Stonehenge' revealed

https://tinyurl.com/msj8spr3

#Neolithic #NeolithicPeriod #NeolithicEurope

November 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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A bold and passionate young woman named Keshna comes of age as a female warrior and a daring avenger.

https://loom.ly/xkhKakI

#HistoricalFiction #ReadingCommunity
November 11, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Ancient town buried hoard 3,000 years ago in UK — then never dug it up.

https://tinyurl.com/458tv5te

#Neolithic #NeolithicPeriod #NeolithicEurope
November 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Kindness Week – November 10-16, 2025

The smallest act of kindness can go a long way.

#kindness
November 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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“Great story showing people trying to understand other people.”

-Amazon review of The Horses at The Gate by Mary Mackey

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#HistoricalFiction #ReadingCommunity
November 10, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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“How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.”

- John Burroughs

#Sunday
November 9, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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The Diverse Roots of the Mycenaeans: How Multiple Cultures Shaped Ancient Greece

https://loom.ly/s1cPLSc

#Neolithic #NeolithicPeriod #NeolithicEurope
November 8, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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86 Ancient figurines, vases, vessels, and amphorae return to Greece

https://tinyurl.com/jh23kxak

#Neolithic #NeolithicPeriod #NeolithicEurope
November 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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The Jaguars That Prowl Our Dreams: New and Selected Poems 1974 to 2018

Winner of the 2019 Eric Hoffer Prize for the Best Book Published by a Small Press

https://loom.ly/1fx4leo

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November 7, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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it is not love
I am asking

love comes from years
of breathing
skin to skin
tangled in each other’s dreams
until each night
weaves another thread
in the same web
of blood and sleep

©Mary Mackey
Excerpt The Kama Sutra of Kindness

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November 7, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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In This Burning World

on the long road down the hill
the cobblestones tip us like drunken sailors
under a sky smeared with volcanic dust

at the bottom lies a sea
clear and pale as the skin
beneath our arms

excerpt ©Mary Mackey

https://loom.ly/7iRK-MU

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November 6, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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“Doom is on the way, and lovers from two cultures find themselves in the thick of it. Marrah finds and rescues the odd-looking stranger who's lying on the beach, almost drowned, after his boat has sunk.”

-Kirkus review

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#HistoricalFiction
November 6, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more."

- Melody Beattie

#gratitude
November 6, 2025 at 2:10 PM