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Janet lives in Michigan with her husband, Don, and Welsh Terrier, Snack. She loves singing, biking, swimming, hiking, doing therapy work with Snack, playing bridge, Scrabble, and Mahjongg, and is a tennis and pickleball junkie. She drags herself off the court occasionally to write. Her piano gets lonely because she chooses to whack fuzzy yellow balls and noisy popping pickleballs instead of tickling its ivories.

To learn more about Janet and her writing, visit janethasselbring.wordpress.com or https://facebook.com/JanHAuthor. Contact Jan at janethasselbrng23@gmail.com.

ABOUT TWEETS

The short story provides author Janet Hasselbring an outlet for writing about her family farm, birds, gardening, and other multifarious subjects; it affords her a venue for reflections and observations generated by books and poems she’s reading. Equal to her love of writing is the challenge of editing and meeting the word limitation of short stories by omitting useless words.

Janet’s stories and personal essays have won multiple local and national awards. The most recent, the 2020 NAMPA winner, “If I Had a Bucket List,” describes her adventures in the Yucatan with her son and his family. Determined to keep up with her grandsons, she shoves off a 60-foot high zip line, nearly drowns while snorkeling at a shipwreck, and swims with Greta, the dolphin, resolving to create a bucket list, if she survives the exploits.

In “Six Little Ducks I Never Knew,” Jan incorporates researcher, Brene’ Brown’s findings on acceptance and vulnerability, as she relates the saga of a mother duck, who deposits a clutch of eggs, in a shrub, outside Jan’s front door; in “I Have a Bird In Spring,” Jan watches baby robins hatch and fledge from a nest outside her porch, weaving Dickinson’s poem Into the story; and, with tongue in cheek, she goes down a rabbit hole with Winston Churchill, promising him ice cream in exchange for sharing the writing techniques that made his books and speeches famous.

Newspaper
United States, Bainbridge, Georgia 
Thursday, June 23, 2022

Headline: Janet Hasselbring, an Award-Winning Author, Presents an Inspirational Collection of Short Stories in Her New Book

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