Goodreads Authors

Over the years, I’ve had several conversations with Ryan Holiday, who is co-author (with Stephen Hanselman) of The Daily Stoic. Our discussions appeared on his podcast and website. I think I’ve met Ryan about three times in person, and we’ve spoken a few times via email. We’re both huge fans of Marc

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Compression therapy might not sound glamorous, but it can be important in managing various health conditions. From marathon runners and desk workers to those living with chronic diseases, compression therapy could be your hero when managing health conditio

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Dr. Merary Simeon, a Fortune 50 HR Executive and co-founder of ZERA Consulting, explains why understanding your inner world is key to becoming self-aware. She also shares why vulnerability is a must for anyone wanting to feel the full benefit of self-awareness.

H.E.R.A.C.T. is June’s featured book of

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We’re almost there. Twenty-two days and counting until The Entire Sky lands.

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From George Lakoff and Gil Duran at the FrameLab Newsletter: Moderate and centrist are political weasel words. Their definitions vary widely because there is no such thing as a moderate or centrist ideology. There is no united “middle” or “center” in politics, no single set of ideas on which all mod Read more of this blog post »

Happy Monday, friends! Up above is one of my favorites in the garden, an Indian Blanket Flower. In addition to some flowers, my green beans are doing well and I’m getting a bit of lettuce and kale. The tomatoes are still taking their time, but hopefully they’ll speed up here soon. It’s been a quiet Read more of this blog post »

You may have noticed that I’ve been posting less frequently,especially my book reviews. Fear not, I have not departed for illiterateclimes. I value our community. And I do have things to say about the books I’vebeen enjoying. I just have been reading and writing much less.

In mid-May, I experienc

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So far as we feel sympathy, we feel we are not accomplices to what caused the suffering… Our sympathy proclaims our innocence as well as our impotence.

 

-Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others

 

…His thoughts were unjust and inhumanely cruel…and all the way home he despised the

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In the fourth post about our Road Scholar trip, Best of the Pacific Northwest – Exploring Three of Washington’s San Juan Islands, I report about our visit to the Lime Kiln Lighthouse on San Juan Island.

Lime Kiln Lighthouse is located on the west side of San Juan Island. Its name comes from the lime

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Is this a typo or is it just poetry? Editing poetry can appear so daunting at times because of this infamous question. Everything within a poem can seem intentional. From two em dashes in a row to a misspelled word, it can be hard to decipher what’s needed and what isn’t. However, there are poetry r

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Wow, thank you to The Tawny Frogmouth magazine for such a breathtaking interview in this month’s issue, ‘Local writing hero is an inspiration for living a better life’. I feel seen!

I have always felt great empathy for those around me, whether it’s my community, writing tribe, friends or family.

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New Post From The Franchise King®

If you’re feeling a bit intimidated by the idea of starting a business alone,  franchising might be the perfect solution for you. In this post, I’m going to share some benefits of owning a franchise business.   Franchise Benefits When you invest in a franchise, you g

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На Росбалте публиковалась весьма дельная аналитика по нынешней арабо-израильской войне (включая полосу Газа, но не ограничиваясь ею)*, которая в значительной мере пересекалась с аналитикой в этом журнале**. Вывод из сказанного в обоих случаях получался такой: ПОЛИТИЧЕСКОГО ВЫХОДА НЕТ.

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RT MurrayWatt: Yesterday Hanson refused to answer questions about plane donation. Now demands ABC $ cut, to silenc… https://t.co/0Wr5NeIY8k

— HRFMIPLaw (@HRFMIPLaw) May 31, 2017

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It's summer break for me, or as I like to call it the season of restoration. Teacher burnout is real! Burning out in life is real! I suck at marketing my books because I burnout. I have pretty much lost the flow of this blog too.
Burnout! 
I was getting up every day and exercising for at least 30 minu Read more of this blog post »

B2B SaaS content marketing can be notoriously complex. Your SaaS company’s solutions are built to solve problems for a highly select subset of a professional audience. If you can’t find and reach this audience with your content, creating it feels like a waste of time.

No matter how niche your SaaS so

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These 10 Kid-Friendly Verses to Memorize this Summer (with a free bonus printable!) will get your family on the way to knowing God’s Word and incorporating it into your hearts and lives this summer. Enjoy!

 

 

When we adopted four kids several years ago, we decided to add some goals for the summer

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Last week...

Writing Related:  As I mentioned in my last Monday post, I'm doing my own Camp NaNoWriMo this month. I feel like I had a good start. I need to write at least 10k a week to make my goal of 40k by the end of the month. I ended the week with 8k which is slightly less than the 10k goal, but

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Cedar City Writers Resist, Cedar City, Utah, January 16, 7 p.m.

https://rick-ayers.medium.com/percival-everetts-james-and-the-literature-of-resistance-5214d11a56ad

Faith, hope, and love -
the greatest of these is love:
jump into faith...
and you'll see with love.
Doesn’t matter if you don’t believe
(what I write);
God believes in you.
God. Bless. You.

I'm in my fifties now, and I think I want to share some of the things I've learned about people in my home state. I'm zeroing in on it like this because I don't really interact with any people who aren't in my home state, so painting with a broad brush is not something I want to do. Anyway, here Read more of this blog post »

DC Pride 2024
Created by Various Writers and Artists

Published by DC Comics

The Skinny: DC once again delivers a beautiful, fun, and affirming collection of Queer stories by Queer creators.

It is June once again, and that means it is Pride month! DC Comics has released their annual oversized DC Pri

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The Question to our First Competition has a WINNER!!!
🥳🥳🥳

Dan you have won yourself a Worlds End • Volume 3 – Don’t Fear The Reapers – A2 Year Planner

#WizardsKeep #WorldsEnd #worldsend 
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Today would have been Hattie McDaniel's 131st birthday. She died back in 1952, but she was born on June 10, 1893. Hattie McDaniel starred in one of my favorite movies, 1939's Gone With the Wind. Although this movie is a favorite of many, it is not without controversy. And, Ms. McDaniel, the daug Read more of this blog post »

What does the gospel do in us? That might seem like a strange question since the gospel does a lot. Depending on your inclinations, you might think about:

Atonement: the consequences of our sins are satisfied and our guilt is covered through Jesus’ death.Justification: we are declared righteous b Read more of this blog post »

Here's the next installment of our Metallum Nocturne story.  If you need to catch up on any of the previous episodes, click here.

Episode Thirty-Two

The locale might have been a secluded bathroom in a courtroom in the city of sorcery, but it felt like a dusty town in the middle of the Old West.  Clair

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From Jonathan Welsh: "Downtown Montclair, N.J. The Ramblers were not much for style during the 1960s and often seemed to be five years in or so behind the aesthetic trend. This one caught my eye because of its originality, right down to the "dog dish" hubcaps. See Bruce Willard's poem about the Ram Read more of this blog post »

Hello! Long time no anything! I’m back and blogging again. Did you miss me? It’s been a wild month and a half.

Let’s see. First off, my house is now SPOTLESS and I’ve discovered the magical tool known as a steam mop. I’m in favor. It makes cleaning the floor SO much easier.

I am now the proud mother o

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Many guys have their own definitions of what the best T-shirt is, whether it's a lightweight undershirt, a moisture-wicking Merino wool top, or something more u

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We have a Sonicare toothbrush — one of those rechargeable ones that vibrates, like, a trillion times per second and essentially buzzes plaque and tartar into submission. (That might not be exactly the science behind the technology, but that is certainly what it feels like.) The toothbrush has a buil

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