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Beating Time at Its Own Game: Life Begins at Sixty – Guest Post by Carolyn Howard-Johnson

Sometimes the big barriers in life aren't abject poverty, dreaded disease, or death. Sometimes it's the subtle ones set upon us by time and place. The ones that can't be seen and can't be acknowledged because we don't know they are there. They creep up silently on padded feet and, if we sense them at all, we choose not to turn and face them. The decade of the 50s was a time when barriers like these faced those with dark skin, those who lived in closed religious communities, and those who...

One Lovely Blog Award

[image error]Thanks to Dominique at 4Walls and a View for the One Lovely Blog Award. Dominique has one lovely blog—in spite of serious chronic illnesses and many other challenges, she is upbeat and encouraging to her many readers, especially others with severe health issues.

Recipients are asked to pass the award along to 15 other blogs, preferably blogs new to us. Narrowing down the list was a challenge. In general, I tried to select blogs that I've started reading within the past few months and that...

People First: Empowering People with Disabilities

[image error]Today, bloggers are uniting to raise awareness about empowering people with disabilities.

After my stroke, I was in a manual wheelchair for months. I wasn't strong enough to maneuver the wheelchair myself so I hired someone to drive me and push my wheelchair. People always seemed to be uncomfortable around me. Often they spoke to my helper and ignored me. They looked at me with pity, but most of the time, everyone I came in contact with went out of their way to help me—rushing to open the...

Message in a Word

[image error]I have a policy that I edit only books I love. Usually, I do a sample edit before taking on a new project so the author and I can determine whether I'm a good fit as the editor of that manuscript. Sometimes I have the chance to visit with the author in person even before that.

Early in April of this year, I received a phone call from Margaret Blincoe to schedule an appointment to discuss a book she had written. As soon as she described her book to me, I wanted to  be part of this project...

The Growing E-Book Market

I entered the e-book market when my first novel, Stroke of Luck, was published as an e-book in 1999. I got my first e-book reader shortly after that. Back then, few people had even heard of e-books. We demonstrated e-book readers at booksignings and spent as much time educating readers about e-books as promoting our individual books.

How times have changed! In a press release from Amazon.com, Jeff Bezos said,

Even while our hardcover sales continue to grow, the Kindle format has now overtaken...

Thanks to June 2010 Commenters

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Winners of the Hushed Recall Writing Contest

[image error]I had the pleasure of judging another writing contest at Visual Arts Junction. The theme was Hushed Recall, based on the photographic artwork by Aggie Villanueva.

You can read the entries in the Professional and Amateur categories on the winners page. You will see why I found it difficult to point out anything that needed to be improved!

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Have Thine Own Way, Lord

This beautiful video expresses the way I want to live my life.

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Smashwords Summer/Winter Sale

[image error]Smashwords is having a Summer/Winter Sale during the month of July. You can find lots of great bargains to read on the beach (if you're in the Northern Hemisphere) or curled up in front of the fireplace (if you're in the Southern Hemisphere).

All my self-published e-books are on sale for 50% off. Visit my Smashwords author page to take advantage of the savings. Just enter the coupon code shown on the right side of the page to get the discount.

These are my discounted books and the sale prices:

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Endowed by our Creator …

[image error] We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights …

So wrote our founding fathers on July 4, 1776. They recognized that our rights come from our Creator, not from government. This Independence Day 234 years later, our nation needs to remember that government is not God. Only the Lord, the Creator, is God.

 

 

ALMIGHTY God, who hast given us this good land for our heritage; We humbly beseech thee that we...