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August 2, 2017
When Bloggers Nap
After a busy weekend hosting all my children, spouses and grandchildren, I need to nap more than I need to blog. You’ve all been there, right? So I’ll be back next week. In the meantime. . . ZZZZZZ. . . .
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July 29, 2017
Sunday Inspiration: Happy Couples
As you may know by now, I’m fascinated about what makes good relationships, not just personally but professionally, since I like to write about how people overcome obstacles in their relationships.
I ran across an article recently that added to my wisdom, and I wanted to share it with you. Happy Couples Focus On Each Other’s Strengths follows a study that shows when couples support each other’s three strongest characteristics — instead of harping on their weaknesses — their relationship in terms of emotional intimacy and sexual satisfaction improves significantly.
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July 24, 2017
Harry Potter: Do Fictional Characters Impact Our Lives?
Photo credit: bibicall via VisualHunt.com / CC BY-NC-SA
Proman (short for Project Manager aka my beloved husband) has a big birthday coming up.
You know what I mean, don’t you? One of those birthdays with a zero? Luckily he’s not adverse to flaunting it. To celebrate, all our children are arriving this week, along with their children, and by the weekend our little summer cottage will be buzzing.
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July 22, 2017
Sunday Inspiration: Making a Difference
Charter for Compassion
This is either a frightening message or an exhilarating one. But no matter how it strikes me on any given day, I always know it’s true. We leave a footprint, how large, how small, how welcome, how menacing? It’s up to us.
What impact have you had today?
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July 18, 2017
The Swallow’s Nest and Dr. Seuss
Mom and Dad Egret and their two hungry offspring.
Do you remember Horton Hatches the Egg? Horton, an elephant, is conned into hatching the egg of a lazy bird named Maysie who wants it back many days later when it begins to hatch.
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July 15, 2017
Sunday Inspiration: How To Be A Rescuer
“A drowning person doesn’t rescue herself.” -Julie Schumacker
Talk about inspiring, did you see the story last week about the family at the Panama City Beach that was carried out by a riptide and were desperately in need of being rescued? Check out this link and be sure to look at the video.
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July 8, 2017
Sunday Inspiration: Exploration
“Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.” -Frank Borman
Exploration was the theme of this week at Chautauqua Institution, and it’s been exciting.
National Geographic partnered with Chautauqua to provide the programming, as they’ve done several times in the past, and the speakers shared a wide variety of experiences.
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July 5, 2017
Sympathetic and Unsympathetic Characters. Black and White or Shades of Gray?
Part of the joy of publishing a book is learning that you’ve reached readers with your words.The Joyful:
Sometimes I’ve brought my readers hours of pleasurable reading. Some of you have told me that you were able to lose yourself in my stories when you were going through hardships and needed that mental and emotional break.
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July 1, 2017
Sunday Inspiration: Does Anybody Know the Right Answer?
“Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.” -John F. Kennedy
I know. Easier said than done, isn’t it? Here we are a couple of days from another Fourth of July, a day of picnics and family and parades.
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June 28, 2017
Invention Week at Chautauqua: What Can It Teach Us About Creativity?
Chautauqua bills itself this way: “The Chautauqua Institution is a not-for-profit, 750-acre educational center beside Chautauqua Lake in southwestern New York State, where approximately 7,500 persons are in residence on any day during a nine-week season, and a total of over 100,000 attend scheduled public events.
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