I Read Twelve Books in January Last month, I read and/or listened to twelve books/audiobooks. I have learned I enjoy reading fiction in the physical book format and listening to nonfiction in audiobook format. With the exception of books about the craft of writing, when I read nonfiction, I tend to skim through the book
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How is 2020 Going So Far?
What Are Those Goals Anyway? At the end of most years, I get excited about goal setting. Sure, it’s an arbitrary time to set goals, when I could set annual goals on March 19 if I wanted to. But there’s something about the new year that is symbolically helpful in getting me motivated. At the
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Museum of Making Music
Museum About Music? When I think of museums, I first think of art museums, where I can view paintings and sculptures from great artists like Cezanne and Picasso. Then, if I press my mind, I remember there are museums of natural history and space museums. As a visual person, a reader and writer, I don’t
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Tips on preparing for a research trip for your novel
I just spent five full days and two half days in Hilo, Hawaii, which is located on the Eastern side of the island. Though I would have liked to have stayed through a Sunday so I could have attended a church service (my novel’s setting is in a church in Hilo), I would say the
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Literary Travel
Wish me luck! Given a limited budget and time (due to family obligations), I have to make the most of this trip!
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Is There Such Thing As ‘No Fear’ Travel?
Recently, there have been a disturbing number of women, traveling to a foreign country, then murdered. I woke up this morning to the news of a Norway woman and a Denmark woman having been murdered in Morocco, a place I had recently spent some time planning a solo trip for in February. In the planning
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Finding Christianity
“He [a Christian] does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us; just as the roof of a greenhouse does not attract the sun because it is bright, but becomes bright because the sun shines on it.” – C.S. Lewis I’m working
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The Cusp
What I’ve Done Two more weeks until the end of the year. What have I accomplished and learned? Well, I quit my job in January, I’ve traveled around the world, visited a friend in need of support, said hello to my grandmother -who doesn’t know her son has passed away, spent more time with my
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Let’s Go!
In the beginning of every year, social media is flooded with blogs, vlogs, tweets about change and conquering bucket lists and goals. The risk one takes in making these goals is failure, even if the goals aren’t made public. But most humans recognize their personal deficiencies and have a desire to improve themselves.
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