Nan McCarthy

author of Since You Went Away, Chat, Connect, Crash, & Live ’Til I Die

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Thank you @yellowribbonbox for the opportunity to help support military spouses and for including my books in your #YellowRibbonBox care packages. You provide a much-needed boost to #milspouses when their loved ones are deployed. #milfam #vetspouse #SinceYouWentAway #Repost @yellowribbonbox with @get_repost ・・・ Every military spouse knows the feeling of wanting to escape their reality-- the day to day struggles of deployment. Sometimes, the best way to do that is to curl up with a glass of wine (or maybe @alpha.coffee) and read a good book. If you received care packages so far this year, you likely received copies of books about deployment from some of our favorite authors. This book by @nanmccarthy is a little different. While it follows the emotions of a military family during deployment, Nan's book is fiction. And if you love it, you can find the rest of the books in her series through Amazon or by visiting https://nan-mccarthy.com/ We are SO EXCITED to share Nan's book with our care package recipients. #yellowribbonbox #sendingstrength 💛📦

I’m not a football kind of person but damn that was fun 🔴🟡🏈🟡🔴

Today is the 91st birthday of Claes Oldenburg, who with his wife and fellow artist Coosje Van Bruggen created the iconic shuttlecock sculptures outside Kansas City’s Nelson-Atkins art museum. (These photos were taken on one of our summer evening walks.) The last photo is our family room where the shuttlecocks are oriented in their same positions as they appear on the lawn of the Nelson-Atkins. We’ll always be Chicagoans at heart but we’ve grown to love our adopted hometown. #KansasCity #NelsonAtkins #shuttlecocks

Finally made a dent in organizing my office this weekend. My priority was figuring out a way to soak up maximum sunlight while working. Also, I don’t like having my back to the door. Those two requirements made furniture placement rather challenging. (This is arrangement #457.) 😂 Still have some pictures to hang and maybe a colorful rug in the middle? But for now this is feng shui enough for me. 🤓📝📚 #amwriting

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Once an editor always an editor. 5th time the author wrote “I shake my head” in less than 20 pages. Had to whip out my pen & start underlining. Couldn’t help myself. Am I weird? Or just obnoxious? #writerproblems #editorproblems #iwassupposedtobereadingforfun

A lot of people don’t realize this book is written by a Republican, for Republicans. I was a registered Republican for 34 years. A Republican who wasn’t afraid to vote for a Democrat when that candidate better represented my values. A Republican who wasn’t afraid to switch parties when I finally realized the GOP had once and for all abandoned its foundations in classical liberalism. (Yes, that’s right, “liberal” was a term originally associated with Republicans.) The senior official who wrote “A Warning” values small government, individual liberty, fiscal conservatism, and a strong military. Clearly a dyed-in-the-wool Republican. And you know what this measured, intelligent, well-written insider’s account of the current administration says about the Trump presidency? Donald Trump is anything but conservative. Leaving aside the plethora of salacious details related to Trump’s complete lack of a moral compass, consider the fact that the U.S. federal budget has *increased* every year of the Trump presidency (it decreased every year of the Obama presidency). Small government you say? And our national debt? Under the Trump presidency, it has grown by *trillions* to an *all-time high* of $22 trillion. Numbers don’t lie. These are indisputable facts. Never mind that Trump promised to *eliminate* America’s debt during his presidential campaign. As stated by the senior Trump official who wrote this book, “Conservatives should view this as complete and utter betrayal.” Intelligent people are willing to admit when they’ve made a mistake. Are there any intelligent people left in the GOP who will read this book? If you’re someone who voted for Trump in 2016, I challenge you to read “A Warning” before you vote for him again in 2020. #AWarning #Anonymous

Stayed close to home on my walk this morning (b/c ice) which gave me a chance to admire the “bird lady statue” between Brookside Blvd. & the Trolley Trail. She is Hebe, the Greek goddess of youth, and for some mysterious reason people in the neighborhood like to leave little birds at her feet. The birds are more plentiful in summertime but I think they look pretty covered in snow, don’t you? #morningwalk #kcneighborhoods

Bringing In A Brand New Year 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣0️⃣ #happyfuntimes

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