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Thoughts Define Us

All that we are is the result of what we have thought--Buddha I wish that more people would think before they speak or act. Whether it's political discourse (my fingers want to type "discord") where we listen to people calling each other names or it's an overheard...
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Bookselling

Many readers of this blog are also writers. And like my fellow writers, friends recommend books on how I can be a better writer, how I can write [fill in genre here], how to publish and how to sell books. You can imagine my skepticism when a respected friend...
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Close Captioned

I don't know about you, but sometimes I need close captioning in my life. Or for my mouth. I try to watch what I say. I really do, but "occasionally" I suffer from blurt mouth. You know the feeling. That moment when what you meant to say gets garbled by what you...
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When the Going Gets Tough,

the tough go shopping. At least that's the old cliche. Retail therapy doesn't work. I'm much less of a shopper today than I was ten years ago, so I have to do something else when the going gets tough. This week, the going got real tough. Bad things happened to a young...
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Nostalgia

Jul 27, 2015 |

Originally published on Roses of Prose blog July 27, 2015 A few days ago I sat talking with a friend about raising...

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Emyl Jenkins

Apr 29, 2010 |

When a writer dies, so do her memories and all her experience. We lost Emyl Jenkins on April 27 at the young age of...

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