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Terry Helwig
Author of Moonlight on Linoleum
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Terry Helwig
Jun 30, 20221 min read
Knee-High in July
One summer, Grandpa allowed me to tag along to the cornfield. The sun warmed my back and the musky scent of rain-washed earth hung in the...
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Terry Helwig
Jun 10, 20222 min read
Winning Gold
Reprint: News article announcing “Shifting Shorelines” as a 2022 Gold Award Winner “Shifting Shorelines: Messages from a Wiser Self,”...
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Terry Helwig
Jun 8, 20222 min read
Idle Speed - No Wake
Idle is a much maligned word, often defined as lazy or slothful. And, yet, in our fast-paced society, with the world-wide web at our...
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Terry Helwig
May 18, 20223 min read
Go Toward the Light, Mama
At 25 years of age, I didn’t know what to make of the eerie feeling that Mama, who had passed only two weeks earlier, was “hanging”...
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Terry Helwig
Feb 8, 20222 min read
The Gift of Sharing Your Story
Recently, I had a virtual, heart-to-heart conversation with my dear and long-time friend Sue Monk Kidd. When I learned almost 900 people...
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Terry Helwig
Oct 17, 20211 min read
Celebration & Gratitude
Flood tides are small epiphanies, treasured moments of well-being that swell the heart with love and gratitude. The release of my new...
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Terry Helwig
Apr 26, 20211 min read
Shifting Shorelines Reminiscent of Gift from the Sea
Shifting Shorelines
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Terry Helwig
Apr 25, 20211 min read
Incorrigible Life-Lover
My book Shifting Shorelines is a culmination of hours spent beside the sea listening to my greatest teacher, Mother Nature. She is both...
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Terry Helwig
Apr 24, 20212 min read
Shifting Shorelines
1. In your book Shifting Shorelines, you never name the Florida barrier island where you live. Why? I purposely never named the island...
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Terry Helwig
Mar 26, 20212 min read
For You Nancy
More than a year of masks, social distancing, and refraining from friendly hugs and handshakes has left me hungry for face-to-face...
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Terry Helwig
Mar 21, 20211 min read
Moonlight on Linoleum
ELLE MAGAZINE’S 2012 GRAND PRIX NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR Moonlight on Linoleum was chosen as ELLE Magazine’s 2012 Grand Prix...
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Terry Helwig
Mar 13, 20213 min read
The Girls’ Comeback Tour of Texas
My sisters and I wearing our Comeback Tour T-shirts: Patricia, Brenda, Joni (holding “flat” Vicki), Terry, and Nancy As research for...
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