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Sherry Scott

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in Honey Grove, Texas, The United States

Website

https://www.sherryshieldscott.com

Twitter

https://www.@LarraineSherry

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Biographies & Memoirs, Poetry, Nonfiction

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Julia Cameron, Todd Rundgren, Naomi Shihab Nye, past teachers and prof ...more

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July 2012

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I live in Paris, Texas with my husband and Albert, our standard poodle. The last one of our 4 kids entered college this year, 3 grandchildren in California. I am a physician who has practiced palliative/hospice care for children as well as general pediatric and adult medicine. I received my BA at Austin College, medical school and residency at University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. My newest book is PLAYHOUSES: Sexuality and Fundamentalism, (2022, BRW). A journey from corrosive indoctrination to celebrating the differences in others. My first memoir, The Year My Mother Died, (2011, Authorhouse) explores the year following my mother's death. My second memoir, The People of Nineteenth Street, (2018, BRW) highlights the role ...more

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Word Dough

One of my most treasured childhood memories, enshrined in the olfactory bulb, was the aroma of a newly opened can of Playdough. The smell was the same in every can, though I was very cognizant of the colored top I was reaching for. Though it was rarely found in my home (I'm guessing as a result of frequently leaving the lid off that resulted in a hardened unpliable mess necessitating a new batch), Read more of this blog post »

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“But I had learned to survive. I may have felt as if I couldn't breathe freely at times, may have felt caged and desperate, may have questioned all I ever was, but I had learned enough to keep me where I needed to be and to live to see what life would continue to bring my way if I continued to look for it.”
― Sherry Scott

tags: the-year-my-mother-died-a-memoir

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“Letters of the condemned. Last words scratched on a cell’s wall. To write like that.”
― Anna Kamienska

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“Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.”
― M.C. Richards

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“The most potent muse of all is our own inner child”
― Stephen Nachmanovitch

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“To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, An Inland Voyage

tags: independent-thought, individualism, preference

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“Imagination is more important than knowledge”
― Albert Einstien

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Commerce Public Library Book Club — 17 members — last activity Sep 19, 2012 08:48AM
The Commerce Public Library would like to invite you to join our book discussions and to recommend books!

¡ POETRY ! — 22632 members — last activity Oct 16, 2025 12:10AM
No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

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Aug 06, 2012 01:06PM

Though summer is coming to an end, depending on how you look at it-either from a temperature perspective or the return of school supply lists, alot of people enjoy 'lite' reads through the summer months. I highly recommend reading some works of children's book author, Patricia Reilly Giff. Lilly's Crossing is a delightful book, set in the WWII era that may be enjoyed by the whole family, especially on audio book. A companion to that book is Willow Run. Nory Ryan's Song addresses the Irish potato famine. Giff weaves difficult subjects throughout her narrative of delightful characters and one comes away with a better understanding of history through the eyes as well as the heart of a child.

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message 1: by Sydney

Jul 17, 2012 02:55PM

Ooh -- look at Paris TX Ladies Book Club for what is coming up next! We need to get set on a date that you are going to have another public book signing and where.

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