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Sheila Allee

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San Antonio, The United States

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I knew since elementary school that I wanted to be a writer. In fact, I joined my first writers group with classmates when I was 10 years old. In high school, I got interested in journalism and majored in that field in college. I was a journalist for 12 years and I have to credit journalism with providing my early training in the basics of writing.

My latest book is All are Free to Write, a one-year journal with writing prompts and blank pages for journaling.

Also on my author's bookshelf is My Father's Eyes, a memoir about the friendship I had with an uncle who had a profound intellectual disability and who was locked in an institution for decades.

My first book was Texas Mutiny: Bullets, Ballots and Boss Rule. It is a true crime about a po ...more

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	My Father's Eyes 4.36 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All are Free to Write: A One-Year Journal with Writing Prompts 4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Texas Mutiny: Bullets, Ballots and Boss Rule 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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My wounded healer

He was “my beloved friend, the most vulnerable of all people I have ever known and at the same time the most powerful.” — Henri Nouwen, Sabbatical Journey

I’ve been reading Henri Nouwen’s Sabbatical Journey, the published journal of the final year of his life. It’s a powerful read – one that has given me lots of thought-provoking and journal-provoking material.

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Appetite for America: Fred Harvey and the Business of Civilizing the Wild West--One Meal at a Time

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Sheila’s Quotes

“The reality that the (intellectually disabled) person is a version of myself is one from which so much can be learned and gained, and yet, it is a reality which most people deny and try to escape from.”
― Wolf Wolfensberger

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“What we need to make a more decent society is not a few Splendid Samaritans but millions of Minimally Decent Samaritans.”
― J. David Smith, Ignored, Shunned, and Invisible: How the Label Retarded Has Denied Freedom and Dignity to Millions

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