Carolyn Niethammer
tucsoncarolyn.bsky.social
Carolyn Niethammer
@tucsoncarolyn.bsky.social
I am a writer of books about edible wild plants of the Southwest, Native American women, and novels set in the historic West. I'm an avid gardener with more plants than I should have: flowers, shrubs, cactus and succulents and especially winter vegetables.
Reposted by Carolyn Niethammer
Welcome to the final day of our blog tour for

༻*·Everything We Thought We Knew·*༺
by Carolyn Niethammer!

Check out our last stops, all showcasing this evocative glimpse into recent times!

thecoffeepotbookclub.blogspot.com/2025/08/blog...
#HistoricalFiction #1970s
@tucsoncarolyn.bsky.social
August 13, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Reposted by Carolyn Niethammer
Let me help you step through a magic mirror back to a 1970s commune where the residents were protesting the war, eating brown rice, smoking a little weed, and experimenting with free love.
August 12, 2025 at 1:58 AM
My blog for Women Writing the West discusses the historical background for my 1970s hippie novel. (What? 1970 is history? Yes, yes, it is 55 years ago. The term is near history) womenwritingthewest.blog/2025/07/25/t...
The Process of Writing My Latest Book
Guest Blog from Carolyn Niethammer shares the process of writing her latest book
womenwritingthewest.blog
August 1, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Elon Musk named his new AI venture "Grok" a word used by hippies in the Seventies. It is from the novel "Stranger in a Strange Land"about extensively reforming society and means to deeply understand. I used Grok in dialog in my Seventies novel "Everything We Thought We Knew. It's the way we talked!
July 17, 2025 at 11:17 PM
It's summer so it's purslane season. Free and full of vitamins. Here is a suggestion for how to cook it. savorthesouthwest.blog/2025/07/17/s... #nativeplants #vegetabledishes
Sonoran Summer Tacos with Nopales and Verdolagas
It’s Carolyn today and I’m out in my garden to pick some delicious and healthy vegetables to bring you a season-spanning recipe. If your Ficus Indica prickly pear (the Mexican tall kind…
savorthesouthwest.blog
July 17, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Everything We Thought We Knew takes us to the early 1970s, when friends flee the chaos of the big city for a rural commune they call Bella Vida. Decades after the commune dispersed, a medical emergency brings the friends back together. #booksky #hippies #Seventies
June 25, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Can you believe the Seventies were more than 50years ago? That makes it history! Drop into the Bella Vida commune where the residents try to remake society while negotiating free love, war protests, sacred mushrooms.
#recent history #Seventies #booksky
April 10, 2025 at 9:44 PM