By: James McGinley
August 21, 2023

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We all need some quiet time. Typically, it means getting away from all the external noise in our lives, such as overlapping demands, chaotic conversations, and pressure to do or think what others want us to. The result is we get saturated and overloaded. We just want to get away from it all for a […]

By: Lisa Campion
January 11, 2023

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I found an old journal from 2009. I must have gotten it for Christmas that year, because it was filled with New Year’s desires and goals for 2010. It was sweet and sort of sad to read about what I was wanting to create back then. The good news was that I have done all […]

By: Dr. Steven Farmer
October 17, 2022

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In case you hadn’t noticed, we are going through an increasingly challenging era in this emerging cycle of the planet’s evolution. Mother Earth continues to change and evolve as she has done for over 4½ billion years. Yet, largely due to our human species’ influence, catastrophic fires, droughts, floods, heat waves, and other evidence of […]

By: James McGinley
September 6, 2022

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What is in your stress management toolkit? Here is my interpretation of the 4 A’s of stress management from the Mayo Clinic. I am not sure I would keep them in this order. But, then again, I do not think the order matters much. The list is more a menu than it is a recipe. […]

By: Julia Cameron
September 2, 2022

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It is the ego’s dicey proposition that as artists we should always be “special” and different. The ego likes to be set apart. It likes to look down its nose at the rest of humanity. Such isolation is actually damaging. It is like the reverse of the Midas touch turning everything golden into a problem. […]

By: James McGinley
August 14, 2022

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I was sitting at work the other day and felt a bit thirsty. On my desk I had a bottled water, a cup with a tea packet in it, and a soda. Without hardly thinking, I glanced up and started to reach for one. Then I stopped. I was struck by the power of choice […]

By: James McGinley
August 14, 2022

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We have all heard it, anything worth doing is worth doing well. We heard it as children and we probably have said it to others as adults. But, is there room to do something badly? According to some people, there is. G. K. Chesterton was a prolific writer and Christian philosopher who lived in the […]

By: Lauren Sapala
August 13, 2022

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When writers first start out writing they tend to concentrate on all the wrong things. The big question always seems to be: Do I have talent? This is followed closely by: How do I get an agent? When I was a new writer I also agonized quite a bit over these things. It’s very normal. […]

By: Jacob Nordby
August 13, 2022

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I walked by a mirror and caught the glance of my own eyes. The words that came from my lips without warning surprised me. “I love you.” It stopped me. I turned back to meet my gaze in the mirror. It was the first time in my life that this had ever happened spontaneously. Unlike […]

By: Lauren Sapala
August 13, 2022

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Every writer I’ve ever worked with has specific anxiety trigger points that occur during different phases of the writing process. Some writers are the most anxious while writing the first draft, because everything feels chaotic, messy, and uncertain. Other writers love the first draft phase, but their anxiety kicks in when it’s time to edit. […]

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