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Feb.24.2013 Seeking Solutions Seeking Solutions By Bernadette A. Moyer It is not enough to say “don’t have an abortion!” A teen unwed mother with no financial means and clueless as to what her future plans might be, is many times going to act on fear. When we hope to make an impact we must move from judgments and blame to...	Dec.13.2012 Stumbled On Epiphany 2 After I fell back asleep, I awoke with an epiphany about a work problem. I identified a common root cause in two problems and while I slept, I wrote an email about them in my head. Waking up, I reviewed the thoughts and email, surprised and pleased by my conclusions. I'd already...
Apr.18.2012 There Are No Answers There are only solutions.	Dec.31.2011 Will You Take Inspired Action as a Writer in 2012? I've been thinking all day about what to write in this last post of 2011. I could have offered you some sort of things-t0-do-t0-get-published list or a best-of post. I could have told you to hurry up and finish your to-do list. I decided not to do that. Instead, I thought about what I wanted to...
Mar.29.2011 Yes, Virginia there is a solution March 29 Yes, Virginia there is a solution Suspended in the colloid of sobriety the overly large molecule, which is me, finds a fix I couldn’t imagine. I can get better, I do get better, I have a set of values to substitute into the old equations. I now live in a mixture where there...	Dec.01.2010 Road Scholar – From HomeSchooled in a Big Rig to Harvard In my last post I discussed one of America’s dirty little secrets. Human trafficking, a form of human slavery, occurs daily across our country. Our nation’s highway system makes it easy to transport girls as young as 12 just about anywhere for sex. It’s the reason why a city like Toledo located...
Aug.29.2010 Blog Tour Tips Virtual book blog tours are an inexpensive way of getting the word out about your newly released book. Bloggers in a particular niche tend to know one another, and can build buzz through comparing notes and making recommendations to their readers. A blog tour host posts a photo of the author’s book...	Jul.30.2010 You Get What You Need There's a certain art to a bad day. It's either very comic, but when you are experiencing it the last thing you want to do is laugh. Instead you pretty much want to go somewhere with a box of See's chocolates and hunker down until you feel better. Or you stay the crabbiest person in...
May.01.2009 Blogging: A Delicious Post Devoured In One Bite How do I combine great needed content and infuse my post with perspective and background to make it real for the reader? Too many writers who blog only serve the fried hamburger. Sure, I'll attract the hungry viewers, but once they're full, they'll linger away. Unless they're starving, chances...	Jun.17.2008 An ingenious intelligence My recent blogs have concerned ingenious solutions: Naomi Bock's brilliant essays about the future of the book (www.redroom.com) ; lawyer Terence Mix' "aha!" solution (dietary cholesterol administered to pregnant mothers in the first eight weeks of gestation) to the incidence of birth...