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Dec.23.2012
Once upon a time, an agent liked a story I wrote and asked if I had a book. I did. He liked the novel, too. He sent it to publishers and one bought it for good money. The agent also sent the manuscript to movie studios. One of those bought it, too, for even more money...
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Dec.20.2012
Tonight’s scheduled guest had to cancel, so I took the chance to share with the listeners about a group I have been working with and sharing with that offer a chance for authors and readers to help those recovering from the tragic happenings in Newtown/Sand Hook here in Connecticut. The group...
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Nov.15.2012
The keeper of thoughts lay lazily on my desk. With its covers closed it seemed far warmer than I felt right at these moments as I cradled my coffee, as much for the warmth it gave my hands as for the life giving nectar of wholesome goodness that the cup held inside. I wanted to add more thoughts to...
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Oct.16.2012
David and I are eagerly awaiting a box with the first copies of My Life Map: A Journal to Help You Shape Your Future. For authors, there’s nothing like opening the box and seeing your new book in hardcover for the first time, except maybe for seeing it in a book store for the first time. Am I...
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Jul.07.2012
Cleaning today.
I was going through a large wicker basket that held an assortment of clutter: old report cards and art work, receipts, warranties for items I no longer own, and a few old, random notebooks.
I swiftly sorted through the kid's report cards and school work; moving most of it to...
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Feb.08.2012
I'm nearly to the end of the current journal I'm keeping and already I'm excited by the prospect of the first blank pages of a new journal. All those possibilities and space and I feel anxious about starting something new with pages and pages of space waiting for me to put words to the paper, cover...
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Dec.28.2011
I’m reading a very unique and clever book called, The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt, by Carolyn Preston. Ms. Preston creates the fictional story of a young woman in the 1920′s through pictures and cuttings from a scrapbook. Frankie’s scrapbook begins with her high school...
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Dec.07.2011
I remember Oprah talked about her journals in one of her shows. She said that she wanted them burned when she passes away.
I thought to myself, “What would I want to do with my journals and my blogs when I die?”
I don’t mind being turned into ashes but I do mind and request that my books not...
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Nov.13.2011
In 2002 Alan Gross, Michael Reidy, and I published Communicating Science: The Scientific Article from the 17th Century to the Present. Drawing upon our extensive research and reading for that book, Alan Gross and I then wrote an entry called “The History of the Scientific Journal” for the...
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Oct.12.2011
So I've been writing on envelopes and pads because I can't find my journals and notebooks, which are still in a box somewhere in the garage. (I just spent a half hour looking for them.) It's been just over a month, and I haven't finished unpacking my life and my office from the...
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