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Nancy Stearns Bercaw

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in Clark Air Base, Philippines

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https://dryland.co

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Memoir, Travel, Nonfiction

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Nancy Stearns Bercaw is an NCAA All-American swimmer and national champion. Her writing has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the Huffington Post, and U.S. News & World Report. She lives in Vermont with her husband and son.

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Nancy Stearns Bercaw The unsolved murder of my friend, and the very really possibility that it was an even better friend who killed her. And, actually, this is part of mem…moreThe unsolved murder of my friend, and the very really possibility that it was an even better friend who killed her. And, actually, this is part of memoir, DRYLAND!(less)

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Nancy Stearns Bercaw Carve time out of your day, every day, to write something, anything. Commit to writing as if it were part of your family. Also, see editing and rewrit…moreCarve time out of your day, every day, to write something, anything. Commit to writing as if it were part of your family. Also, see editing and rewriting as your best friends! (less)

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Oh, Morocco! Land of Elan & Citron!

I thought I had a pretty good handle on the African continent and the Middle East after all these years and therefore assumed that very little could surprise me. But Morocco took my handle and spanked me on the butt. This country does not care about your preconceived notions of beat-generation heydays and hashish or a certain film... Read More Read more of this blog post »

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“the satisfaction in attaining a goal was in direct proportion to the hardship and challenge involved in getting there.”
― Nancy Stearns Bercaw, Dryland: One Woman's Swim to Sobriety

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“This is something I know: damaged women? We don't think we deserve kindness. IN fact, when kindness happens to us, we go a little berserk. It's threatening. Deeply. Because if I have to admit how profoundly I need kindness? I have to admit that I hid the me who deserves it down in a sadness well.”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water

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