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Accept Everything

One way you might find your mind opening is when you say this mantra: “Accept Everything.” Let me elaborate …

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Is Constant Improvement Possible?

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe via -or- When I was in high school, I ran track and field. My coach would always tell us that runners with commitment were more important than those with talent. For example, I recall one runner who for four years constantly took [...]

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Interview with Michelle of “It Might be Love”

You know it isn’t often I run across a blog and instantly become a fan. That’s how it was for me a few months ago when I found It Might be Love. Of course I am a hopeless romantic so this blog appealed to me right away. It’s an unobtrusive, unassuming blog [...]

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9 Aspects of Classic Great Writing

You know it’s fitting that today when I went looking for a Twain photo I found one that was under a “reusable media” license. That is kind of a metaphor for what my 9 Authors, 9 Aspects of Powerful Writing guest post is about over at Confident Writing. One commenter there, Jim Murdoch, [...]

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Finding Inspiration Close to Home

Katelynn is a writer I ran across recently with a real hunger to write and connect through her writing. She has a very upbeat tone in all her posts and I was lucky to get her to guestblog at Postcards today. There is more 411 on her in the footer of this [...]

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Weekend Reverie: Deep Thoughts

Did you ever spend a weekend doing a whole lot of nothing and you felt great about it? In a sense that’s what my weekend was like. We bought a new stove for the house. We’re supposed to move in around May 15th. Other than that, I just whittled at the [...]

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Suggestive and Summative Titles Make Bloghoppers Stay

I see the biggest challenge to blog authors today as keeping visitors on their site long enough to have an impact through their writing. I’ve seen and heard the effective traffic brought on by games and gimmicks for shiny items like designer jewelry. I wonder if that traffic really reads their stuff though. [...]

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A Short Thought This Easter

Well, it was a wonderful Easter here at home. We decided to not travel this year and I’m glad we did so. We decorated egss, had a lot of chocolate and I did some sidewalk painting with my 3 year old. All in all it was very well spent and I think [...]

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Blog Safari 3-21-08

 
It was an amazing Safari last week. I read some great blogs by old friends and added several new ones through the binoculars. Most my new blogs here were discovered through Entrecard.com. Just a little plug for them, they are cool. Check these out. As always, each post received a [...]

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Writers Block Library Cure

A very important part of learning how to blog is learning how to get out of a “funk” or a case of writer’s block. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, the Library is a place to find humanity in life, and I will add to that a cure for writer’s block. [...]

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