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On a monthly basis, I meet with a group of other writers. We all write different genres; fantasy, historical fiction, cozy mysteries and inspirational. But we have one thing in common. We are writers.  We send our work to each other and then when we meet face to face, we critique. With a manuscript in…

Whether we are conscious of it or not, we are influencers. Our actions, attitudes and words affect, penetrate and sway the lives of others in small, large, good, or bad ways. Though we may not have any control in how someone may interpret our actions, someone is always watching. Consequently, we might want to consider,…

Pascal was an intelligent man who lived in the 1600s. He was a physicist, religious philosopher and master at prose. He once said, “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”    Alone and Quiet Though the world today is much different than it was in Pascal’s time,…

I am zealous about learning new things, but sometimes, learning something new entails unlearning something old. Old ways of thinking are ingrained thoughts, ones that we act on automatically, without giving them too much consideration.  But when we become even just a little bit more aware of what we think, and why we think that…