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Nancy Forde | Writer/Photographer | she/her🇮🇪🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 MFA in Creative Nonfiction (Class of '26) | MA in Doc Photography & Photojournalism ('21) | Grab a cuppa & curl up: spinetingling.substack.com (This here's my 📚 bsky. Personal bsky: @nancyfjorde.bsky.social)
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Just saw the film adaptation of that genius Helen Macdonald's 'H is for Hawk' starring Brendan Gleeson and Clare Foy might release in theatres where I live as a wee gift for me for my January birthday. Thank you, Cosmos.

If you haven't yet read the book: fly. Fly and hunt your own copy down now!
Photograph of hardcover book 'H is for Hawk' by author Helen Macdonald. First published in 2014.
November 5, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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I cannot wait to one day pen my fictional memoir based on this photograph I made back in 2019. "Sisters."
One doll (on the left) is peach-skinned with rosy cheeks, blue eyes and a fancy blue and yellow scarf around her red hair as she giggles in glee and a pale doll attached to her has no clothing along with exposed balding patches from her dark cropped hair with downcast black eyes and a daisy bracelet. Scrabble tiles lie across them both that spell "Sisters." Photo credit: Nancy Forde. November 2019. All rights reserved.
March 11, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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(Only four? Tough one.)

Quote post with four books that have shaped you #WorldBookDay
Book cover of Honey from Stone by Chet Raymo. Yellow cover with black and white print block illustration by Irish artist Bob O'Cathail of bee on a flower with rising sun and standing stone in the distance. Book cover of John Wyndham's The Chrysalids. Green bug like . Alien is holding a spear in front of a farm field. Book cover of John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany. Green cover with a brown armadillo at the centre. Book cover of Alan Lightman's Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine. Cover is a photograph of a New England coastline at night with the Milky Way visible in the night sky.
March 6, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Steve Edwards over @the-big-quiet.bsky.social wrote a perfect piece that's an important read today. Canadians stand with our neighbour nation in fighting fascism/Hate wherever it rears its ugly head.

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Quote of words by Steve Edwards in his piece 'The World Doesn't Owe Us Flowers' for Substack (edwardsstevenc.substack.com) and the quote is: If I want to rage against the machine, I can be a more mindful consumer of goods and services. I can walk instead of driving. I can put up some bird boxes for the bluebirds that have arrived at our feeder. I can tell the truth. “We can no longer let the people in power decide what is politically possible,” Greta Thunberg said. “We can no longer let the people in power decide what hope is….Hope is telling the truth. Hope is taking action.”
January 20, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Coffee brewing here in Halifax as Day 2 begins for me for the 2nd week-long writing MFA residency of my 1st year - writing panels, workshops, student readings, mentor sessions - all for the love of words. What's your week looking like? And more importantly, what are you reading right now? On my TBR:
The Charlie Brown Christmas Album on vinyl plays on a wooden table with Winter Solstice gifts from my teen to me in 2024: books entitled Stiff by Mary Roach and The Bog Wife by Kay Chronister. Photo credit: me.
January 12, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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I may have already shared this... here are a few (Yuletide gifts!)

Reading for part research, part enjoyment, part crazed obsession 😬😅:

Mary Roach: Stiff
Kay Chronister:The Bog Wife
A vinyl Charlie Brown Christmas Album (Vince Guaraldi Trio) plays at the top of a photo showing two books on an old wooden table: Stiff by Mary Roach, and The Bog Wife by Kay Chronister (Photo credit: Nancy Forde)
January 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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I've been called barren
Like bogs. Yet here we both are:
Fecund. Sundew-kissed.
#wlchaiku
Sundew at Polly Cove Bog on eastern shores of Nova Scotia. Wetlands Appreciation Week. August 2024. Red fronds of sundew, a carnivorous bog plant, in dark, peaty bog surrounded by bright green wetland grasses. Photo credit: Nancy Forde Photograph of me after long labour, holding my baby at 5 minutes old. I was 42. My smile doesn't quite transmit the joy of becoming a mother alone finally after close to a decade of infertility struggle with my ex. My twin sister made this photograph of us both (she played the role of my birth partner that special day. So grateful.) This kid's a teen now! May 2009.
January 5, 2025 at 1:25 PM