| Current Blog Nearly finished with The Night of Wings, and reviewing with beta readers. This is a 30k children’s book, middle grade level. It began in 1999, published in Seattle as a very short story of around 3k words under one of my pen names. |
| Book Excerpt: The Night of Wings Sunlight tiptoed through the trees and made faces in the little drops of water hanging from the leaves in the Old Wood. The air was as crisp as a brand new book. One droplet decided to follow the sunlight and rolled to the edge of the leaf, collecting more droplets as it went. The leaf bowed lower and lower under the weight until finally the engorged dewdrop could fly to its target below. “Hey! Who did that?” said Elderberry from his perch on an old fallen tree trunk. Elderberry took a piece of the moss and wiped his golden hair and forehead with it. Rippletink giggled from under a red spotted mushroom umbrella. “I told you it wasn’t dry enough to come out yet.” |  | Author Children’s Books Fiction Fantasy Sci Fi Self-Help |
 | Review Excerpt: Nick and Tesla’s Robot Army Rampage This review is based on a Reader’s Advance Copy. The final published book may be different. Nick and Tesla’s Robot Army Rampage is book 2 in a series of 3. The first is Nick and Tesla’s High Voltage Danger Lab. The third, Nick and Tesla’s Secret Agent Gadget Battle has yet to be scheduled for release. Illustrations were not complete in this advance copy so I cannot comment on those. (see more») | Book Reviews Sci Fi & Fantasy Children’s Books Historical Fiction NonFiction |
| Travel Review Excerpt Bodmin Moor, Cheese Ring, Cornwall, England. Content coming soon! |  | Travel Reviews Accessibility & Latex Allery Reviews General Travel Restaurants Hotels Blindness |
 | Poetry A mind roams fractured upon a foreign landscape Thoughts jumble sideways, flipping like pancakes What kind of crazy prefers the street to the hearth?Voices whisper Shadows beckon (see more») | Poetry Natural World Esoterica Life Disability |
| Artwork Artwork by Debra L Scott (see more») |  | Art Portrait Esoteric Landscape Abstract |
 | Photography To me, the earth is alive – a living, breathing creator and manipulator of energy, minerals, vegetation, animals, gases, star stuff… All of these things have their own energies, some more conscious than others, but nonetheless possessive of a voice that can speak directly or in terms of their history on this planet. Humans impact not only their own lives, but the the very fabric of reality on a tangible and esoteric level. Scientists ‘discover’ consciousness, planning and thought in various species and even vegetal and fungal life forms. Creatures as varied as the worms (see more») | Photography Travel Ancient World Beneath Our Noses Forest Water Sky Omens and Gateways |
| Latex Allergy My story is one of a long line of misdiagnoses.Almost a decade before latex gloves became standard for all health care staff due to the AIDS crisis, I had skin rash symptoms of latex allergy. While working in an elder and long-term care wing of a hospital in 1974, my hands began to display cracking, weeping sores which I attributed to a soap allergy and the constant hand washing. However, I was also daily handling rubber latex incontinence pads, catheters and other supplies common to the industry. (see more») |  | Latex Allery About Latex Allergy My Story Statistics Challenges Medical Information Anaphylaxis |
 | Accessibility On Agoraphobia as it applies to Latex Allergy (Natural Rubber Latex – NRL)As so many of my attempts to lead a normal life end up with yet another life threatening anaphylaxis, I am starting to realize my behaviors have changed.Going outside, even to walk around the neighborhood, has become a treacherous voyage (see more») | Accessibility Latex Allergy and Barriers to Life, Medical Care and the Social Construct, Blindness with guest blogger Mike Marlin, Universal Design and why you should care, Service Dogs – what they are and what they are not. |
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Review by Debra Scott, 2/19/2018 Between my spouse and myself, we have 4 distinct disabilities and 2 service dogs. This creates a rather interesting dilemma when we travel. Generally speaking, it takes at least 3 to 6 months to locate resources and lodging that will accommodate us. One would think that all venues would be…
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Enjoying the American Library Association conference and meeting some amazing writers and poets. Hands down favorites for me: Patrisse Cullars, co-founder of #BlackLivesMatter, interviewed by Marley Diaz, a 13 year old powerhouse of insight who started the #1000blackgirlbooks campaign. Elizabeth Aceveda, whose poetry is straight from the gut, hit me square in the middle of…
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Seeds Float Downstream
by Debra Louise Scott Seeds float downstream Fertile waste and spill joyful Silver sylphs slooshing playful I stand among them in naked awe Armadas of airborne organs Swell and gather force Stroke the forest like wild horses Excited, abandon reason A snowstorm of botanical semen Explodes everywhere Green Man, Mother, clutch at clovers Scream in…
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The Tricking of Freya by Christina Sunley
The Tricking of Freya By Christina Sunley St. Martin’s Press (2009) Book Review by Debra Louise Scott, October 2009 Excerpt: “It’s a lot of death. I know. Believe me. I know. But we’ll try not to focus on that. The point here is resurrection, wordly reanimation. Infuse the dead with words and they’ll spring to…
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Accessible Trails in the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge
by Debra L Scott The Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge is a beautiful spot for a leisurely stroll, or a day of bird watching! A short distance off of I-5, you would expect it to be noisy and crowded. However, this peaceful 10,819 acre refuge was neither on the still Christmas day of our visit. It…
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