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Emotional Intelligence
Wikipedia gives a good overview of the term Emotional Intelligence. But what are the implications for writers and others today? I love this ad from Mercedes-Benz from Ads of the World that seems to...
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Finding Peace…Going Deeper…Meditating
What is Meditation? “It’s what happy and successful people do,” I was told, when I first started learning about meditation and how to do it. The Dalai Lama and other Tibetan Buddhists believe that...
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The Bridge at Mostar
The bridge is pleasing to the eye. It’s perfect in its simplicity. You can only appreciate the grace of its arcs from a distance, or from the pebbly beach down below. Looking up you see a figure...
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Getting Feedback on Your Writing
How do you react to negative feedback? I sent off my manuscript of “Karrana” (a novel) to a professional editor last year. I requested a structural edit. She gave me both positive and negative...
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Taking Risks
Crazy young woman is biting her laptop in office I’ve always been a bit of a risk taker in some ways. [See “My Travel Journal: (A Metaphor) From Paris to Russia and Back in 1968” (Memoir)]. In other...
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New Horizons
New Horizons Those past two weeks had seen me have 2 new artificial lenses put in my eyes, that is, cataract surgery on both eyes, start a new blog, and study about plugins that help bloggers to make...
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Dear WordPress Bloggers
We’re coming into summer here Down Under, while you in the northern hemisphere head towards winter. I have decided, paradoxically, to go into blogging hibernation now, while the outdoors activities in...
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First Week of Spring … Downunder
Someone asked me today why I blog. Another person said recently that, at my age, it’s enough to be a good grandmother to my grandchildren. To be honest, and I’ll try to be truthful in this, the reason...
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Are You Left Brained or Right Brained?
Tread Carefully Here… I have to be careful when discussing this concept, as I’m married to a scientist, who also happens to be a very creative person. He was an actor when we first met, but has for a...
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Climbing New Heights
Dear Fellow Bloggers It’s the first week of autumn or fall “down under” (it feels like spring) in Australia, and already the temperatures have cooled in Sydney. I hope the weather is warming up for...
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