Let’s do the Time Warp again! Welcome to the twenty-ninth installment of my blog hop/writing exercise called Time Warp Tuesday! For those not familiar with Time Warp Tuesdays, which I host on the 2nd Tuesday of every month, here is the background of how and why I came up with the idea. If you are here […]
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I finally got around to skimming through the Oscars on my DVR tonight, since I pretty much slept through it on my couch last night (after an awesome and exhausting retreat weekend) and loved this quote by Ben Affleck at the end of his Best Picture (for Argo) acceptance speech: “You have to work harder […]
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It’s the last Monday of the month which means its time to share our Perfect Moments from January with Lori from Lavender Luz (formerly known as Write Mind Open Heart). I look forward to participating in this blog hop/writing exercise hosted by my friend, and soon to be published author, every month. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ One of my friends gave her testimony […]
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When I was a junior in high school I was assigned a research paper to do about famous person who has had an impact on America. If I recall correctly, my classmates and I were given a list of approved men and women that we could write about. But, I had someone else in mind […]
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The irony is not lost on me that I am getting this review posted, for a book about willpower, just under the wire on the day it is due to go up. Clearly this was a book that I could benefit from reading and I was not disappointed. Ever since I began The Willpower Instinct: How […]
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There is a scene in the movie Philadelphia where Tom Hanks’s character, who has AIDS and is very sick, introduces his attorney (representing him in a wrongful termination lawsuit), played by Denzel Washington, to one of his favorite opera arias. He closes his eyes and translates the story being sung while they are listening. As he […]
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