Nicole Sharp

Writer, Wanderer and Coffee Lover living "la dolce vita"

  • Nicole Who?
    • Publications
    • Contact
  • The Writing Moose Blog
  • Short Stories
    • “Out in Front”
    • “The Lonely Museum” – Part 1
    • “The Lonely Museum” Part 2
    • “A Roma”
    • “Ithaca”
    • “Coffee Shops”
    • “Ending Up”
    • “The Italian Holiday”
    • “Saying Thank You”
    • “Talking to Walls”
    • “The Apocalypse Ticket”
    • “Thirty”
    • Ideas for stories
  • Favorite Things
  • Always A Cappuccino
  • Nicole Who?
    • Publications
    • Contact
  • The Writing Moose Blog
  • Short Stories
    • “Out in Front”
    • “The Lonely Museum” – Part 1
    • “The Lonely Museum” Part 2
    • “A Roma”
    • “Ithaca”
    • “Coffee Shops”
    • “Ending Up”
    • “The Italian Holiday”
    • “Saying Thank You”
    • “Talking to Walls”
    • “The Apocalypse Ticket”
    • “Thirty”
    • Ideas for stories
  • Favorite Things
  • Always A Cappuccino
  • The Keeper of the Keys…

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    I don’t remember much of my visit to the Vatican Museum, it’s a fuzzy memory. There are bits and pieces I recall, but the last time I was there was 2003, and this…

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  • Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol: A ghostly history

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    Here is more information than you ever asked to know about this little book and the man who wrote it. My family is a Dickens Christmas Carol family to the core. It all…

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  • Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

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    I found an unexpected moment of quiet tonight. As the dusky sky, a yellowed pink hue, gave way to dark blues, I sat on my sofa in the glow of my Christmas tree.…

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  • Good coffee for Friday the 13th

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    In honor of Friday the 13th, here’s a quick blurb from my book, The Italian Holiday. The characters just happen to be discussing Friday the 13. Only they are in Florence, in the…

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  • Hope in the Time of 2020

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    My internal playlist continues to fluctuate between the song “Don’t Stop” by Fleetwood Mac and “It’s The End of the World” by REM.  How bout you? Anyway, they say you come across what…

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  • By the book…

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    My friend Ariane sent me a text the other day with this question. “What is one book you wished everyone would read?” And I haven’t slept since. That’s not completely true, I haven’t…

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  • Lessons from the Medieval Times

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    This is the time of year I yearn to settle into fall quotes and long rambling sentences while I make fun of the abundance of pumpkin spice flavored items. But this year, the…

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  • Learning to Preserve…

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    “But when fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays awhile like an old friend that you have…

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  • Ms. Regina’s First Day of Kindergarten (On line edition)

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    My dad was a teacher. My mother-in-law is a teacher. A LOT of my friends are teachers. I’ve had an unfettered glimpse into the world of the teacher; their lives and the work…

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  • History is happening…

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    On March 13 we made this sign in solidarity with my family in Italy that had gone into Quarantine. Andra Tutto Bene = Everything is going to be okay. It was an Instagram…

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About

Nicole Sharp a fiction writer. She swigs coffee the way a dehydrated sailor with scurvy would whiskey. She is a purveyor of world travel and the perfect Cappuccino. When not writing, she dreams of the places she’s yet to go and continues learning the Italian language.

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