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anastasia-m-ashman's picture
Mar.12.2013
Creative problem solvers are entrepreneurs
    My GlobalNiche.net partner Tara and I have been talking about entrepreneurship for several years. We started with the creative kind, where you use your intellectual property to fashion a life and work that fits you. We riffed on that, applying entrepreneurship principles to your life'...
joann-smith-ainsworth's picture
Dec.25.2012
The Frailty of Control
Humans try to control everything. And all at once.  Impossible. While we’re focused on solving one developing problem, another breaks away and does its thing. Frustrating, but inevitable.  The best we can do is control “ourselves” in such a way that happenings outside our sphere of...
janet-ruth-heller's picture
Dec.12.2010
In Praise of Writing Critique Groups
I joined my first critique group for writers when I lived in Chicago in the 1970s and 1980s.  I had met the other members of my group when we all co-edited the literary journal _Primavera_.  We did not have time during our editorial staff meetings to discuss one another's creative writing.  So five...