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The decision to go full-time … came on the heels of my mother passing away, my 50th birthday, and just knowing it was time to shift into a different way of working and being in the world,” writes Nancy, of Fort Wayne, Ind. Nancy’s freelance work covers two completely different fields: writing and editing and animal Reiki practitioner and animal communicator. She writes and edits for a variety of publications,  businesses, and nonprofits, including a garden column, Trowel and Error, which she wrote for Fort Wayne Magazine for several years. She still writes gardening stories for Fort Wayne Newspapers publications, and Nancy has edited books for a couple of local authors.

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Stein became a column writer for the News-Sentinel in November 1982, and she freelanced for the paper until this past August, when it moved to a full-time staff of one and stopped paying freelancers. Starting this month, however, northeast Indiana can once again find Stein’s literary thoughts in print: For the monthly On Her Nightstand column, Stein will interview local women about what they’re reading. Recently, I went through the drawer in which I kept all (my columns), and I was shocked—with an exclamation mark,” says Stein, who turned 102 in December. Blake Sebring, whom Stein met through her work at the News-Sentinel, had been encouraging her for years to publish her work, she says.

That’s because I so rarely read new books. Anywho, to call this list “the best books of 2018” is a bit misleading since I likely won’t get around to reading many 2018 books until, like, 2020 or something. Here are my six favorite books I read in 2018. This was my third of three Bradbury books I read this year; I had to keep following his Green Town books after “Dandelion Wine.