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
Author of Moonlight on Linoleum
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Terry Helwig
- Jun 10, 2022
- 2 min
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, 2022
- 2 min
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, 2022
- 3 min
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, 2022
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
Shifting Shorelines Reminiscent of Gift from the Sea
Shifting Shorelines
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Terry Helwig
- Apr 25, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 3 min
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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