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What If? Why Not? How? consists of Sally’s personal essays & her interviews with creatives & visionaries, in which she asks questions not to seek answers about this confounding, beautiful, ugly world, but to initiate & sustain dialogs. (Always free)
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- 11
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- Sep 16, 2026
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The Strange Saga of an Accidental Biblical Student (opens the original)
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Life Happens; Love Creates (opens the original)
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Far from my best poem. But when I saw the date — the evening before another wedding anniversary without Daniel — I had stop to nod to the woman I was then who did her best to seek wonder even on dark days.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1769"
The Writing Life: Beginnings, Middles & Endings (opens the original)
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On My Bookcase: Adding Reality to My Magical Realism Work-in-Progress (opens the original)
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