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by
Darcy J. Williamson
Welcome to My World
I began my writing career in 1978 with "How to Prepare Common Wild Foods" and "School at Home, an Alternative to the Public School System". I have authored over 30 books, mainly nonfiction, during my 50-year career.
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I had always wanted to write fiction. Now retired from my non-fiction career, I am wanting to share my autobiographic storytelling and fiction writing.
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Look for my other books at https://www.amazon.com/books
For the Love of Guinea
In 1980, I was thirty years old, and my son, ten, when we traveled to Guinea, then a closed country in West Africa. My fiancé was a geologist working in a diamond exploration camp in Baoule Valley, near Kérouané. During my time there I kept a diary. Once back in the United States, I wrapped the diary in a silk scarf and tucked it away. I had had planned to return to Guinea and the diamond camp, but life took me in a different direction.
I didn't open and read the diary until autumn of 2023, forty-four years later. This book is based on the diary and letters sent home during that life-changing time of challenge, camaraderie, joy, and heartbreak.​​
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​​ Sisters of a Different Dawn
Sisters of a Different Dawn is the tale of two women -- New Englander Sara Gray, daughter of a Methodist Episcopal minister, and an eastern Oregon Country Shoshoni, Umentucken. Both women strive to retain their individuality during a time when change threatens all that they had once believed to be truth. Set in the 1840s, Sara Gray and Umentucken have a common bond, Sara's brother Myram, who left their New England home years earlier to venture west as a trapper for the Hudson's Bay Company. Sara's own travels from Boston to Fort Hall in search of Myram are filled with adventure and hardships. Her biggest challenge, however, is Umentucken, as the women from two different worlds struggle to reach common ground.
The Care and Feeding of James
Janet had been longing for a work and sales space for her growing medicinal plant business, so when one day in April a real estate sign showed up in the parking lot of the vacated roadside café located in her small, hometown community of Wheeler’s Bent, she saw an opportunity. One major obstacle in fulfilling her vision was financing the project.
Janet found six women to join her in the purchase of the café. As the women struggled amid the hardships of working together in a faltering business, James, a small injured bird entered their lives. In the end, it was the care and feeding of James that changed everything.
