Seven Healthful Dinner Ideas For A Week Of Evening Meals

January 14, 2012

So you’re getting eight hours of sleep each night, meditating in the morning, writing in your journal, downing a protein drink for breakfast, eating a turkey-on-whole-wheat sandwich for lunch, taking a fruit drink in the afternoon, drinking plenty of water, and exercising an hour a day. Your system is clean, and you feel great. Only [...]

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Ten Wonderful Things To Give Away

December 31, 2011

As I progress through life, I find myself searching for more ways to make each moment of every day count. I am not alone in concluding that one way to do that is to give to others.   When some folks think of giving, transferring money is the first thing that comes to mind. In [...]

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Pretty Sentences

December 24, 2011

I spend a lot of time thinking about the creative process and what it takes to produce writing that is both pleasurable and meaningful. In addition, I ponder my own writing goals. Surely, something that I spend so much time doing deserves substantial contemplation. With the exception of my interaction with the wonderful people whose [...]

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The Tree

December 10, 2011

In a dream, I see myself walking through a magnificent garden toward a flowing fountain, or perhaps I am sitting beside the fountain watching a man approach along a flower-lined path. The quiet of the sanctum fills me and affords an opportunity for reflection. Peace sweeps over me, and my anxiety is gone. The garden [...]

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The Woman In My Journal – The Memory

November 24, 2011

As the woman’s story develops in my journal, she comes across as mostly feminine. Not terribly so now as an older woman, but still, something female flows from her—a glow, a hue, a trait that has become more subtle with age. She seems feminine and, at the same time, frustrated at her inability to hold [...]

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Corazones y Culebras

November 23, 2011
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Questions and Answers About Writing – 2

November 12, 2011

From my work on Yahoo!Answers, here is a second list of questions from folks who are working on various writing projects, along with my responses: Question #1 – Can I write my novel in the third person and still add good detail? Answer to question #1 Writing from a third-person point of view is standard [...]

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The Words On The Mountain

October 29, 2011

As I write, words sometimes pop up that I don’t anticipate. They appear when I least expect them, often when I’ve just written something that seems to have little redeeming value. At that magical moment, manna alights nearby and waits for me to see it. I think I spot it tonight, and I pick it [...]

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