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Corrine Ardoin

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Award-winning author, Corrine Ardoin, has been writing stories, poems, and essays since grade school. She took creative writing in high school and in college and garnered a Special Mention in a collegiate poetry contest. Her professor encouraged her to write a novel. She attended a talk given by Ray Bradbury in Santa Barbara, California at the Writer's Conference, where he spoke on, "So, you want to be a writer?" He said all you have to do is write a page a day and by the end of the year, you will have written a book. So, following his sage advice, Corrine began writing books.

Her publication successes include local birdwatching guides for the Central Coast of California. Her most highly esteemed work is A Natural History of the Nipomo Mesa
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Corrine Ardoin I would go to Jane Austen's book world. I would get all dressed up and attend a ball, eat fancy food, and talk about unimportant things! I would ride …moreI would go to Jane Austen's book world. I would get all dressed up and attend a ball, eat fancy food, and talk about unimportant things! I would ride horses and tramp around the estate. I would love it.(less)
Corrine Ardoin I write whatever. I journal through what's going on with me. I write poetry. I get a stack of scrap paper and write whatever comes to mind, scribble, …moreI write whatever. I journal through what's going on with me. I write poetry. I get a stack of scrap paper and write whatever comes to mind, scribble, draw, whatever. If it's too painful or difficult even to write, I will turn my creativity elsewhere, like in music or dance, cooking, gardening. I trust that I am not blocked, but merely at another phase I need to respect and honor.(less)
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Today I chose the music of Tom Petty to accompany my oft-procrastinated workout regimen. The song, Saving Grace, filled my house and my eyes filled with tears. Tom Petty is dead. He sang of going to the music store for a certain brand of guitar string. Reminded me of my own guitar-playing days I have seen grow more dim in the rearview mirror of my life. I chose to devote myself more to my writing, Read more of this blog post »
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Careless Love covers the years in Elvis Presley's life from when he was stationed in Germany in 1960 until his tragic death in 1977. It shows how greedy record companies, film companies, his manager, and fans all wanted more and more—they wanted his ...more
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Authoritative, exhaustively researched, Last Train to Memphis presents an intimate portrait of the most written about, yet most misunderstood person of the past century. Once read, you will find this to be the only book on Elvis Presley you need to r ...more
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Marrying Myself by Christine Melanie Benson
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“At least once in their lives, everyone should have the opportunity to stand by the river and simply watch the water roll on by.”
Corrine Ardoin, Fathers of Edenville

“At least once in their lives, everyone should have the opportunity to stand by the river and simply watch the water roll on by.”
Corrine Ardoin, Fathers of Edenville

“We are not separate from this Earth; we are a part of it, whether we fully feel it in our bodies yet or not.”
Sharon Blackie, If Women Rose Rooted: A Journey to Authenticity and Belonging

“Long before God the Father, there she was – God the Mother. Where did she vanish to, this great mother goddess? How did we women become so completely dispossessed? It wasn’t that I wanted to replace a male god with a female god; it wasn’t that I wanted to find a religion at all. I was simply looking for some sense that women might have worth. And I found it: there in the old stories of my own native land, I found it. Filled with images of women creating, women weaving the world into being, I took up knitting. Thread by thread, stitch by stitch, I began to knit myself back into being. I had never thought of myself as being a particularly creative soul, but I discovered that creativity was a wide-ranging affair. I simply thought about what brought me joy, and I began to cultivate it. I dug my hands into this strange foreign soil, and I began to grow things. I began to reacquaint myself with the soft animal object that was my body. Slowly, spending more and more time outside, focusing on the wisdom of my senses rather than on what was going on inside my head, I began to weave myself back into the fabric of the Earth. Some”
Sharon Blackie, If Women Rose Rooted: A Journey to Authenticity and Belonging

“I am done living my life in the confines of others' dreams, waiting to live my own.”
Anne Osterlund, Aurelia

“I want to clarify that one of the worst things we can do with a narcissist of any kind is actively battle against this person. Nothing makes a narcissist happier than the chance to be a true victim. They seem primed to fall to the floor, a dramatic hand to their foreheads, and cry out, “Why?”
Don Barlow, Gaslighting & Narcissistic Abuse Recovery: Recover from Emotional Abuse, Recognize Narcissists & Manipulators and Break Free Once and for All

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