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March 9, 2010
- For folks interested in archaeology or in American sub-cultures, I wrote about my past life as a Shovel Bum at my regular blog:http://hengruh.livejournal.com/104250.html
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March 3, 2010
- How much time do you spend at your workplace? If you work a 40 hour week consistently for the year, you are spending approximately 50% of your daytime hours on your job. That figure is only true if you have 2 days off. More accurately, you spend about 67% of your day at work.You may say "well, I have to make a living", but is this really living? At this pace, you are placing yourself in ...
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March 1, 2010
- Meet multiple award-winning nurse poet Cortney Davis. Also the poetry editor for Alimentum literary journal, Cortney has authored Leopold's Maneuvers and a number of poetry books. Her latest book is a series of essays, entitled The Heart's Truth: Essays on the Art of Nursing.An active and working caregiver, Cortney finds joy in the revision process of writing.AA: Give us a sense of your writing ...
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March 1, 2010
- Aside from my college losing its accreditation (which was a possibility a little while back. Now we are on double secret probation), my job is secure. And even if we were disbanded as a college, we would become the outpost of one of our sister colleges, and I will still retain my job.Why? I have 20 years of seniority with about fourteen full time folks with lower seniority "below' ...
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February 25, 2010
- I'm very happy to say that my GLBT erotic short story, The Delaneys and Me now has a hot-off-the-press book cover. As you can see. I'm hugely pleased as it has exactly the right amount of quirkiness and humour that (I hope!) is also in the story. You can readan extract here and it will be published byAmber Allure Press on 18 April 2010. Hurrah!I've also managed to finish and return the ...
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February 15, 2010
- I remember looking through the window, trying to work out what job I could do to earn a similar amount of money I was on, when a soldier came to the door in camouflage garb and invited me inside the shop.I was outside the army and navy shop, just off Trafalgar Square, and I was killing time after having arrived for work in Endell Street a couple of hours early. It was in summer in the year ...
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February 10, 2010
- We all have a choice. We can either succeed or fail.People who place value on character are free to live their dreams... while people who place value on material gain quickly lose their freedom to despair, imprisonment, and or spiritual emptiness. To assure the freedom and success of present and future generations, we need to instill in our children a code of ethics that's essential to a ...
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February 3, 2010
- My friends, when you are feeling small and inconsequent, or worry that your work may be small and inconsequent, please undertake the following exercise.Imagine lifting your own weight over your head. Do this deliberately, and in this way: Imagine that you are standing in front of yourself. Imagine you are bending at the knees--say, like a circus performer--and holding your upturned hands ...
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January 17, 2010
- So many things seem to be going on right now that my mind is whirling and whirring and most of the wh words. In no order of importance, I am planning a wedding, working with a new agent, starting a semester, smoking (right now) a pork butt and a chicken, contemplating a major revision of another book, landscaping the backyard, and applying for a sabbatical. I'm also growing older and ...
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January 8, 2010
- I write fiction. I love it. I write contemporary thrillers and just finished writing the 3rd chapter in my trilogy of terror, Demon Hunter. But why? I read a quote once, went something like this: "It Has Been Said That Every Writer Without Exception Is A Masochist, Sadist, Peeping Tom (or Tomacina), Exhibitionist, Narcissist, And A Depressed Person Constantly Haunted By Fears Of Failure ...
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