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After not doing a lot musically for several years, I feel like I’d like to start playing again, so I’ve been haphazardly looking for something that would be interesting to me and fit within my schedule. I’m so used to just being able to pick up a gig anytime that...

[image error]No suelen los tribunales contencioso-administrativos desempolvar el art. 247 de la Ley de Enjuiciamiento Civil para imponer multas por mala fe procesal. Sin embargo, un reciente auto de la sala tercera del Tribunal Supremo –al margen del caso de fondo– sienta interesante criterio par...

At first I was puzzled by the certificate-sized envelope that appeared in the mail the other day. It came from the alma mater of my first college degree – Bowling Green State University. I couldn’t imagine what they had to send me after all these years.  Then my son opened it and said, “It’s an a...

I guess this past week was an exciting time for everyone who isn’t me. The hot gossip around the water cooler was talk of all the Prime Day deals they snagged for themselves or as gifts for others. I, on the other hand, just hid in my office and tried to figure out what I was going to do for lunc...

Questions reveal a lot about us. Good questions can point us in healthy directions. Great questions can save us from disaster. Several years ago I read a brief article by Donald Whitney, a pastor and seminary professor, who gave me permission to re-print his article that lists 10 important questi...

It is my pleasure to present an interview with Daniela Petrova, author of the debut novel, Her Daughter’s Mother, released June 18 by Putnam.

Her Daughter’s Mother is a suspense novel about a woman in her late thirties who has it all—an apartment in Manhattan, a great job as an art curator at t...

Our last Kat Martin book this month is “The Secret”.

It is Book 1 in the “Haunted” trilogy. It is Kat Martin with a splash of paranormal!

Enjoy!

Thank You for reading!

*Disclosure: as an amazon associate, I earn from qualifying purchases made through my links.

Ich habe meine Sommerpause im Finanzrocker-Podcast dazu genutzt, mich mit meinem YouTube-Kanal zu beschäftigen und versucht zu lernen, ein VLOG zu erstellen. So kann ich künftig Interviews mit Reisen und Veranstaltungen verknüpfen. Auch für Blog und Podcast ist das eine sinnvolle Ergänzung. Die e...

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I tend to be releasing these Sunday night journals a little bit later than I usually have been doing. Part of that is that I have been traveling recently, so sometimes I have been pushing the posts back due to travel and recovering from travel. But, I’ll try to make sure to get thes...

Obviously, since I’m a mom I’ve spent several years perusing children’s books, trying to find the ‘good ones’, the ‘funny ones’, the ‘popular ones’, the ones that my kids would respond to. During the first handful of years of motherhood in reading all the many books that we have, I never expected...

Tut mir Leid, wenn ich mich hier mal kurz aufregen muss, aber das lässt sich leider gerade nicht vermeiden…

Ich lese gerade das Buch “Beyond Weird” von Philipp Ball, in dem es um die Quantenmechanik und ihre Interpretationen geht. Das Buch ist ziemlich gut (nicht zuletzt deshalb, weil da vieles dr...

אתמול במונולוג שלי ב #משכן_לילה ניסיתי להבין למה שוב פוליטיקאים רבים אחד עם השני (אגו ושנאה אישית) ובו בזמן מפקירים את הנכסים של כולנו לטובת מתי מעט שחומסים ועושים בהם כראות עיניהם…
או כפי שטענתי: "מדוע אנחנו עסוקים רק בעיר עפולה האם כל אדם בישראל יכול להיכנס לכל פארק, חוף ושמורה שירצה?"

והייתה גם...

Many nations in Europe would rather commit national suicide at the altar of political correctness than admit that Muslim immigrants aren’t assimilating.  “Rape Capital of the World” Sweden is no exception, they are a prime example.  I remember being in Lund, Sweden in 1991.  Things have changed,...

I was trained in the craft of industrial psychology, and that means that by now, I should be able to read people pretty quickly. That has not always been the case but, in general, people are more or less what you see.

However, the exceptions are quite noteworthy.

Through the years, I’ve come acro...

This post features another book review, and yet it’s so much more than a review. Writing this review of Rachel Cusk’s Outline is a fantastic opportunity for me to talk about literary fiction. What it should be and what it doesn’t care about. Often on this blog I talk about over-explaining in fict...

Throughout the month of July, I will be providing a daily writing prompt based on the title of a beloved Children’s book. These are designed to inspire you to write a poem, prose piece, or a piece of flash fiction in 30 minutes or less.

Let your creativity go wild!  The only rule is that you use t...

Joanne Nicholson and I met online in May 2018 and found we had much in common as writers, although I live in the UK and Joanne lives in Australia. We wrote a joint post to share our writing experiences which you can read here. Now we are both busy promoting our new novels, we thought it was time...

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Yerba buena, (also spelled hierba buena) otherwise known as Spearmint, is yet another herb that came with the Spanish friars and was gleefully added to the indigenous medicinal herb garden. 

Curanderas (healers) add spearmint to make a concoction more palatable but it also has its ow...

In a world that changes overnight through technology and social media, it is hard to keep up with the changes let alone adapt so quickly. It seems a new world greets us each day with new information and new crises. How do we move through these changes? Often I find myself wanting to cocoon and bi...

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Your mood, outlook & behavior is always under the influence of who & what you choose to pay attention to in life. If you want your life to be more positive, more meaningful or more productive, feed your focus with things that encourage more of what you’d like to see, not less.

The pos...