Nut Bags and Num-Nums

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 37 77 1)><em></em></strong><strong><em>Do you remember the time Lorna tried to make ground beef with her car?</em></strong><strong style=color: rgba(0 37 77 1)><em> </em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 37 77 1)>For almost forty years Lorna Stuber's high school classmates have teased her mercilessly about the time she crashed her car into a steer leaving the car with tufts of bovine hair stuck in cracks in the hood. The car has since been known as Lorna's Cowfur Mobile. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 37 77 1)>Filled with relatable yet unique stories of sibling rivalry community and coming-of-age lessons </span><em style=color: rgba(0 37 77 1)>Nut Bags and Num-Nums</em><span style=color: rgba(0 37 77 1)> tells the story of a girl growing up on a Canadian cattle ranch in the 1970s and 1980s. With a mix of humour and poignancy the author enlightens readers on how to dispatch a gopher gut a chicken and clean and cook prairie oysters. The book also pays homage to teachers and to Alberta's farmers and ranchers.</span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 37 77 1)>I've lived in in the jungles of Peru and the suburbs of Tokyo. I've been to Easter Island Australia Egypt the Caribbean and Europe. But regardless of where I travel no matter where I live my feet are grounded in Canadian soil under the expansive Alberta sky. I value the rural lifestyle and the people I've known since childhood who still shape the person I continue to become.</em></p>