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Karen Nelson

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Nonfiction, Young Adult, Mystery

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Karen Nelson is an author and teacher, with a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction. She is the author of 100 Things To Do In Branson Before You Die (Reedy Press, 2018), After Ever After (Goldminds Publishing, 2017), and a half dozen other books for the nonfiction market.

Her award-winning articles and short fiction have appeared in national magazines, and she maintains her passion for education from her southwest Missouri farm.

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Happy Yahrzeit…Again

I like to write something every year on the anniversary of my husband’s death, but this post that I wrote 2 years ago is still every bit as true, and I can think of nothing I would add or take away from it. There was a time when grief obliterated my ability to do anything […]

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“If an earthquake cracks the foundation of a house, even if the damage can't be seen, eventually that person will find themself standing in a pile of rubble.”
― Karen Nelson, The Sunken Town: A Novel

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“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
― Mother Teresa

tags: attributed-no-source

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“You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.”
― Jonathan Davis

tags: conformity, individuality

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“The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter

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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

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