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Hey everyone! Just wanted to share an excerpt from my book--I had A LOT of fun writing this. Enjoy!
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She broke away from him and set her towel on a chair next to the Jacuzzi. “The water had better be hot or I’m not getting in. I don’t want to freeze.”
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Everything you want to accomplish in life requires an investment of your time. When you want to improve your results, you must face the fact that your supply of time is completely inelastic and perishable.

Even in this era of rapid innovation and technological advancement, time, more than any other r Read more of this blog post »

After Radclyffe returned downstairs, she made a big fuss over Don, fetching a loaf from the pantry and tearing it into hunks, smothering them with butter and piling them on a plate which she put down on the table in front of him. He shyly accepted it, nibbling a crust before cramming it into his mou Read more of this blog post »

My last two blog posts have focused on the importance of standing up to peer pressure, and this has led me to think about the need to choose friends wisely.

This is particularly important if the person in question has a troubled background and no positive influence in their life, as their desire to b Read more of this blog post »

A collection of pictures I took in Hua Hin, Prachuap Khiri Khan Province, Thailand. Browse hundreds of more photo albums from my trips around the world using the submenu above or the Photo Albums Map at the bottom of the page. Click on any photo to view the slideshow

The post Photos: Hua Hin, Prachua

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What am I currently reading? Good question! I’m reading a novel by Emma Jane Unsworth called Grown Ups. And I am enjoying it (recommended). SHE’S FUNNY! Unsworth is a British writer, and I plan to read her 2014 release, Animals, next. Note: apparently Unsworth is a Frank O’Hara fan (see the Other Wo

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It’s 7:30 in the morning and I am back in the office for the first time after Covid lockdown.

I am not the only one to have risen early: my colleague in front of me is already there, rubbing her hands with disinfectant, asking me if I am OK hugging. I am not, so we don’t hug. I like her, but I dislik

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Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace.

Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

Where there is injury, pardon.

Where there is doubt, faith.

Where there is despair, hope.

Where there is darkness, light.

Where there is sadness, joy.

O divine Master,

Grant that I may not so much seek

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It’s a recurrent complaint – people’s attention spans are shrinking. Neil Postman wrote about it in the 1980s, suggesting that human attention had peaked at some point soon after the Enlightenment and was quickly fading, thanks to the corrosive effects of TV.

By the mid-2000s it had become convention

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There's so much yet I've got to discover about sci-fi, but the crux of it seems to rest on the idea of superior machines, intelligent robots. They are often hard to destroy by humans even though they've been made by humans.

In the real world, humans try to make other humans robots, but it doesn't wor Read more of this blog post »

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This week I'm talking about a hot topic. I hope I do it justice, but you know, I'm not a medical doctor. This work has not been reviewed by a medical doctor, it is not to be taken as medical advice, I'm just sharing my research, experiences, and opinion, with you.

So, I wanted to

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Rock Versus Water:  An Examination of the Toxic Military Environment by Sabrina Ciaciura

For any of those who have been associated with the United States military, it is likely you have the awareness of the many problems with which our military members suffer.  High rates of suicide, military sexual

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Part of Kathy Caprino’s series “Thought Leadership and Impact”

As a writer and a Forbes contributor for over 9 years, I’ve received hundreds of questions from new and emerging thought leaders and writers who wish for more media attention—for their work, books and services. Given the meteo

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3 Ways to Deal With Haters - One Disciple:

My latest for One Disciple.

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Are you someone who is constantly going and doing? Let’s talk about the problem with productivity and why you might want to slow down…

Growing up, I loved to read. To sit on my bed and absorb one Nancy Drew book or Hardy Boys novel after another was the best. When I visited the library, I always Read more of this blog post »

There are too many average software products and companies – don’t you agree? Open a webpage randomly of similar products – from the strong brands and the lesser-known vendors  – then hide the logo and try telling which vendor you are dealing with. Impossible. Everybody seems to sound and feel the s

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The poem Biktima is about bullying. It is written by Riza Comilang

It’s been a while since I posted anything here–one month to be exact! That’s because I’ve been working hard at getting the sequel to Age of the Catalyst written, which is going very well and over halfway finished. Writing weekly short stories, at anywhere from 3000-5000 words was proving to stretch

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I’ve featured these sorts of images before, but Carbon Brief’s new interactive article on the footprint of different foods is an instructive summary of climate friendly eating.

One again the vastly disproportionate impact of beef is obvious. If you want to do one thing to immediately reduce your carb

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Any marketer or internal comms professional worth their salt knows that not only do audiences prefer video, they often demand it. After all, video already accounts for a vast majority of web traffic. And brands that hope to keep their audiences’ attention need to offer up someth

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Points: The Blog of the Alchohol and Drugs History Society (US)

The Points Interview: David Black, author of Psychedelic Tricksters: A True Secret History of LSD

“I’ve titled the book Psychedelic Tricksters because in mythology the trickster is someone who ‘unwisely’ defies the powers-on-h

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Only a couple more months until the cover reveal for The Mummy of Monte Cristo! Until then, I really like this teaser my wife put together for my Facebook cover image.

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One day, during my language justice seminar, a guest speaker came to talk about his work in advocacy for language diversity preservation around the world. Before his presentation officially started, he asked the class an icebreaker question: What are your ancestral languages? As we went around the r

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Everyone in Aili’s country wears a neckband.  It has become a part of their culture, it’s been done for so long.  When bands were originally used, they were made by mages who wanted an easy way to identify who was another mage and who was not.  Earlier in their history the mages did allow non-magica Read more of this blog post »

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Scanning ballot to vote!

We voted this week all the way from Italy and it was so easy-peasy. We did oversea absentee ballots.

The whole process was essentially electronic so no mail service was used. They emailed. We printed. We filled it out. We scanned. We emailed back. That’s it!

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the approval has been granted,

the lift of the travel ban,

the ticket longed for is now in hand



three days scheduled

in glorious summer heat

with a lover’s heart in waiting



greeted at the airport

a loving embrace

and staring deep into each other’s face

before a long evening at an outdoor cafe



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