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The Mommy Break Project: A Self Care Manifesto shares lessons from one mom's year long journey to reclaim her "me time." It is an easy-to-implement blueprint to help other moms do the same! You will finish the book feeling re-inspired about the possibilities for creating a well-balanced mommy existence.

In Sustainability: A Love Story, Nicole Walker questions what it means to live sustainably while still being able to have Internet and eat bacon. After all, who wants to listen to a short, blond woman who is mostly a hypocrite anyway-who eats cows, drives a gasoline-powered car, who owns no solar panels-tsk-tsking them? Armed with research and a bright irony that playfully addresses the devastation of the world around us, Walker delves deep into scarcity and abundance, reflecting on matters that range from her uneasy relationship with bats to the fragility of human life, from adolescent lies to what recycling can reveal about our not so moderate drinking habits. With laugh-out-loud sad-funny moments, and a stark humor, Walker appeals to our innate sense of personal commitment to sustaining our world, and our commitment to sustaining our marriages, our families, our lives, ourselves. This book is for the burnt-out environmentalist, the lazy environmentalist, the would-be environmentalist. It's for those who believe the planet is dying. For those who believe they are dying. And for those who question what it means to live and love sustainably, and maybe even with hope.

In this inspirational guidebook, Nicole A. Walker shares her life experiences, personal thoughts and tips to getting your life on track. Follow a journey of a supermom of four battling Lyme Disease. See her courage, strength and motivation to change despite the odds against her. As she provides you with the tips, tools and resources to make changes in your life. Nicole will inspire and motivate you to seek, analyze and reinvent the woman you desire to be. So whether you are a woman looking for change. A mom searching for some parenting tips. A teen girl expecting her first child. Or woman trying to conceive another baby. Woman First Mother Second will educate and empower you to believe. To love yourself as a woman first, mother second.

A reflective and practical guide for writers wanting to dig into difficult or personal subjects, this book offers a road map to the special craft techniques that will allow authors to navigate trauma and tough topics to create compelling and accessible prose. With consideration of traumatic experiences such as domestic violence and sexual abuse, but also thinking about how best to tackle political, scientific, cultural, environmental, and other thorny, emotional, or potentially objectionable subject matter, Nicole Walker demonstrates the craft techniques that can provide distance, context, and multiple entry points for writers to shape difficult content. Drawing on her own backstory and experience teaching students from many backgrounds who often have painful stories to tell, Walker offers in this book ways both she and her students discovered how to write the hard stuff effectively. With each chapter providing a strategy to attain a form of distance, including rest, metaphor, object writing, detachment, detour, distraction, point-of-view shift and ducking into different content through braided essay, this book enables writers to tell their story whilst connecting to the larger issues attendant to their theme and experience. Utilizing writing prompts and examples from a wide range of texts, Writing the Hard Stuff promises to broaden the reach of writers’ difficult and hard-hitting prose by connecting the interiority of the personal story with the exterior world.

A reflective and practical guide for writers wanting to dig into difficult or personal subjects, this book offers a road map to the special craft techniques that will allow authors to navigate trauma and tough topics to create compelling and accessible prose. With consideration of traumatic experiences such as domestic violence and sexual abuse, but also thinking about how best to tackle political, scientific, cultural, environmental, and other thorny, emotional, or potentially objectionable subject matter, Nicole Walker demonstrates the craft techniques that can provide distance, context, and multiple entry points for writers to shape difficult content. Drawing on her own backstory and experience teaching students from many backgrounds who often have painful stories to tell, Walker offers in this book ways both she and her students discovered how to write the hard stuff effectively. With each chapter providing a strategy to attain a form of distance, including rest, metaphor, object writing, detachment, detour, distraction, point-of-view shift and ducking into different content through braided essay, this book enables writers to tell their story whilst connecting to the larger issues attendant to their theme and experience. Utilizing writing prompts and examples from a wide range of texts, Writing the Hard Stuff promises to broaden the reach of writers’ difficult and hard-hitting prose by connecting the interiority of the personal story with the exterior world.

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. This book is about a strange object—strange in part because it is something that we all have been, and that many of us eat. Nicole Walker‘s Egg relishes in sharp juxtapositions of seemingly fanciful or repellent topics, so that reproductive science and gustatory habits are considered alongside one another, and personal narrative and broad swaths of natural history jostle, like yolk and albumen. Mapping curious eggs across times, scales, and spaces, Egg draws together surprising perspectives on this common object—egg as food, as art object, as metaphor and feminist symbol, as cultural icon.Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

2022 New Mexico- Arizona Book Award Finalist" Walker] produces observations as beautifully written as they are thoughtful...An effective illumination of the profound difference between right thought and right action.'"--KIRKUS REVIEWSNicole Walker made cheese and grew tomatoes as a means of coping when she struggled to get pregnant. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, she cooked veggie burgers for friends and hamburgers for herself--to enjoy outside, six feet apart. Her Mormon ancestors canned peaches to prepare for the End of Days and congealed beef broth into aspic as a surefire cure for ailment. Throughout the richly layered essays of Processed Meats, Walker ponders food choices and life choices, dissecting how we process disaster, repackage it, and turn it into something edible.

Wife. Mom. Teacher. Superhero. Woman of God. Nicole Walker takes on all of these roles and more, and Three in One displays how she carries them out. A unique, intimate book, Three in One is part devotional, part journal, and part testimony of Walker's breast cancer journey. Cancer wasn't in Nicole Walker's plan. But it was in God's.Journey with Nicole in this unique devotional/journal/memoir as she tells her story and encourages readers in their faith. Because even though cancer seems overwhelming, God is in charge. He's in control. And He loves His children.