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Flights of Fancy and Food for Thought
Flights of Fancy and Food for Thought
Flights of Fancy and Food for Thought
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Flights of Fancy and Food for Thought

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This collection of short stories and essays contains a variety of selections that are often flights of fancy and imagination, but some of them may rise to the level of food for thought. The first long story is a futuristic science fiction piece envisioning a world where power struggles and usurping of liberties and rights occur in cyberspace, not territory. The rest of the stories comprise a wide variety of writings and thoughts.

They range from fantasies to science fiction pieces to some animal, toy, teddy bear, and allegory stories that may appeal to children and the young at heart as well as some serious reflections about the meaning of major celebrations of Christmas and Easter. The author hopes that her readers will enjoy these stories and essays. She decided not to use a title speaking of specific desserts and treats because too many people were mistaking her earlier short-story collections for cookbooks.

I still maintain that good stories and literature are every bit as nourishing as dinners and desserts but in a more profound way, she insists.
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PublisherAuthorHouse
Release dateSep 26, 2016
ISBN9781524640828
Flights of Fancy and Food for Thought
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Linda Anne Monica Schneider

Linda Anne Monica Schneider, one of the natives, was born in Washington, D.C. and is a lifelong resident of Arlington, Virginia. Here she tells the story of a middle-class American girl descended from Italian and German immigrants who grew up and found her law vocation during the 50’s through 70’s and who happens to be blind and hard of hearing. After graduating from Trinity College (part of Trinity University, Michigan Avenue, Washington, D.C.) with a B.A. in English literature in 1974, she received her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in 1977. She worked at the SEC as an attorney until she retired in September, 2014. She has used a series of wonderful guide dogs as traveling companions. MS Schneider lives in either a one or two-dog household depending on whether she has a retired guide dog. Like the two discouraged, disillusioned pilgrims who fled from Jerusalem after the death and still disbelieved resurrection of Jesus, she is still in the lifelong process of finding the Lord. This updated edition tells the rest of her story and supersedes the earlier version published nine years ago in 2012. Her present working Seeing Eye dog is a black Labrador retriever/golden retriever cross, named Ives, pictured on the back cover.

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