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March 25, 2019
Hyperphantasia or Aphantasia: How Much Does Your Mind’s Eye See?
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Hyperphantasia is the ability for an individual to create highly graphic images in his or her mind’s eye. In other words, some could call it the conjurings or machinations of an “overactive imagination”. Alexander Brennan, the main character in my middle grade novel, MOONSTRUCK, has an overactive imagination.
[image error]Lucid dreaming, aphantasia, and hyperphantasia sometimes intersect.
I didn’t know there was a “scientifically” precise term for this characteristic, until one of my students shared with...
March 24, 2019
Inspirational Quotes in Honor of Women’s History Month
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March 23, 2019
March 22 1816 Igbo-Jamaican Black River Slave Rebellion Plot Discovered King of The Igbos & 1000 Armed Igbo & African Maroons
March 22 1816 Igbo-Jamaican Black River Slave Rebellion Plot Discovered King of The Igbos & 1000 Armed Igbo & African Maroons
The Black River Region of western Jamaica as many as a thousand Igbo & other African Ethnic groups plotted a general insurrection and elected King of Igbo ( Eboes ) and two captains over 300 hundred Enslaved Africans swore blood oaths to join the rebellion but the plot was discovered! The king of the Igbo ( Eboes ) and of one of the captains were capture...
Marta Moreno Vega withdraws from El Museo del Barrio exhibition
Maximiliano Durón (Art News) writes that Afro-Puerto Rican artist and former director of the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI), Dr. Marta Moreno Vega, has withdrawn a work from a forthcoming exhibition—“Culture and The People: El Museo del Barrio, 1969–2019”—scheduled to open on April 11, 2019. He adds that Puerto Rican art historian and independent curator Marina Reyes Franco declared that she “will no longer participate in a panel at the museu...
March 21, 2019
As the Author World Turns on Amazon Book Review Policies – From the Book Designer Blog
BY JUDITH BRILES ON MARCH 21, 2019
By Judith Briles
Amazon: Love it … or hate it … but, you gotta deal with it.
“Why are my reviews being removed?”is an ongoing question that authors ask. There isn’t a live program that I do that it doesn’t surface.
Scratching our heads, few of us can figure out what makes the Amazon robots push the yank button, while others stay.
Book reviews, and lots of them, can make or break the success of a book. When it comes to Amaz...
Inspirational Quotes in Honor of Women’s History Month
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Virginia Woolf Two For One Special (I couldn’t decide on one, so I had to choose both)! 
March 20, 2019
week twelve
When you dim your light to make others comfortable, who (if anyone) benefits?
There is a difference between bragging and inspiring and it’s usually who’s listening. Sometimes being yourself and living your life on your own terms makes others squirm. Why would you want to be around someone who is most comfortable when you are the least semblance of yourself? And when did it become our responsibility to pacify those who are scared of their own freedom?
Last Sundays: The 25th Art of Reggae Exhibition Reception
National Gallery of Jamaica Blog
The National Gallery of Jamaica’s Last Sundays programming for March 31, 2019 will feature the Pimento Band as well as the winner and top 100 entries for the International Reggae Poster Contest (IRPC) in The 25th Art of Reggae Exhibition. There will also be a speech by IRPC founder Maria Papaefstathiou and IRPC board member Carolyn Cooper.
The 25th Art of Reggae Exhibition is hosted by the IRPC, which was founded in 2011 by Michael Thompson (1958-2016) and...
March 18, 2019
Why Banning Book Buying Just Isn’t Working For Me
I’ve made a bajillion self-deprecating jokes about how I can’t be contained, about how poor my self control is, about how much money I spend on books, and … all of that is true.
I began the year off with a new rule: for every 5 books I read, I could buy a new one, and it worked relatively well for, um… a month and a half? So not very well at all.
I told my best friend about it, and she backed me up, and asked: how are you going to keep yourself accountable? And I g...
March 17, 2019
Inspirational Quotes in Honor of Women’s History Month
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