gifts | gifts
Dec.06.2011
I'm guessing I'm not much of a writer because you can start and stop at #7 for me. OK, also #10 in a pinch ... of salt.
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12 Holiday Gifts That Writers Will Actually UseBy HANNAH GERSEN
In “Aren’t You Dead Yet?”, one of the stories in Elissa Schappell’s new...
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Nov.30.2011
What are the best and worst holiday gifts for people with cancer? I just wrote a short piece about that on my Huffington Post/Redroom blog, and was reminded, once again, that when it comes to such things, there is no best or worst, just as there is no right or wrong. We are all different; each...
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Oct.28.2011
..........October 28
Picard
The little tin whistle I yearn to play squeaks in my head warning that I have no time to learn and a tin whistle though slender is not easy. I think if I had a magic wrinkler for time I might learn, I remember characters that have, but I...
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Sep.04.2011
In church this morning, the sermon was on Romans 12. And I began to wonder which gift I had received. Of the those listed in this scripture: prophesying, serving, teaching, encouraging, giving and showing mercy, I couldn't easily...
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Aug.30.2011
I opened the door yesterday and found two novels on my doormat: The Summer Guest, by Justin Cronin, and Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese, neither of which I’d heard of, nor their authors, and both look to be compelling. I cannot imagine who might have left them, or why --- but thank...
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Aug.30.2011
Everyone has a gift. Some of them are specialized for a small audience, like the gift of a child to make a mother smile or to calm a father's nerves. Sometimes that gift grows into the gift to make entire rooms of people smile, perhaps even into a profession of healer or comedian, sometimes it...
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Jul.24.2011
Finding a suitable match for his spoiled daughter, Princess Rose, proves quite the challenge for King William in Susan Ross’ THE ROSE AND THE LILY (ISBN 10: 0981063462, ISBN 13 978-0981063461, 36 pages).
Knights are too tall or too short. Lords too plump or thin. Too old fashioned. Not rich enough...
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Jul.06.2011
Sorry I missed this on Kafka's birthday itself, but better late than never. Mind you, Kafka himself would promote 'better late and never', but then he had some issues with living and life. And - no - Etsy is not Estey, though I'm sure K smiles.
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Etsy Does...
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Apr.15.2011
Huge thanks to Susan Whitmore at www.GriefHaven.org for including an article on Bo,my son (1981-2004) and for promoting "Believe" and "Creer" in the agency's latest quarterly newsletters - Parent Journey and Siblings Voice. Please visit and read.
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Jan.28.2011
Romance of My Dreams 2 is a great title for release at Valentine's Day. I haven't blogged in a long time (busy writing that next best seller!), but this week's book release from L & L Dreamspell is worth a blog. Romance of My Dreams 2 anthology is a collection of ten escape stories for the...
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