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Nancy Babcock has lived in 4 countries and 5 states, and has had a wide variety of careers, from horseback riding instructor to jewelry designer to university professor and cross-cultural trainer and consultant.
Throughout her various life phases, Nancy has chronicled her experiences, her perceptions, and opinions. She is an observer of the everyday and author of the online column Pieces of My Mind, about the oddities of those ordinary things we all so often experience without even thinking.
An inveterate writer of letters to the editor, her opinions on the more serious events around us have appeared in the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
Nancy now lives with four cats and one adopted Belgian draft horse in the Sonoma Valley of Northern California, where she continues her careers in art and writing.
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, July 24, 2009 Look, See, and Here We Go...on health care
American needs to wake up and admit there is a huge problem with our health care system--to go on acting as if there's not a need to do something major is suicidal. We didn't get into this mess overnight, and we won't get out of it overnight either, but we do have to do something sooner rather than later, and we've got to start somewhere.
If you don't like what's being proposed, come up with something better. Simple.
SHARE Wednesday, November 5, 2008 At Last
Gratitude for the election of Barack Obama
SHARE Friday, January 5, 2007 A Tense Change
Jimmy Carter said it best when eulogizing Gerald R. Ford, and made his points all the more poignant with a simple tense change.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, November 10, 2006 The Price of Right
Bush's continued inability to admit he was and is wrong--and why.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 24, 2006 The Cruelest End
America's dirty little secret of horse slaughter for the purpose of human consumption overseas can be stopped if you act now. 90,000 healthy horses a year--including pregnant mares and months-old foals--are being abused and tortured in 3 foreign owned slaughterhouses in Texas and Illinois in preparation for becoming someone's dinner in Europe and Japan. This is animal cruelty at its worst and must be stopped now.