Mother’s Day is this Sunday, are you ready with a gift, card, or phone call? I sent my mom a card, which she should receive tomorrow. She’s going to be 93 years old this July and she loves word searches. We will take her and my dad out to dinner and do a little shopping. […]
Quotes for Writers
“You do not have to explain every single drop of water contained in a rain barrel. You have to explain one drop—H2O. The reader will get it.” —George Singleton “When I say work I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.” —Margaret Laurence […]
Practice Breathing
I’ve tried many breathing techniques, but this one works for me. Give it a try click here.
Meet With Your Muse On Sundays
Do you use a few minutes on Sundays to reflect on the preceding week and prepare for the six days ahead? When I do, magical events happen. I don’t plan step-by-step procedures or specific outcomes. I envision happy feelings and a-hah surprises. For instance, I’m behind in studying a speaking program with […]
“Your Book Is Your Expanded Business Card”
I’ve heard about Canva to customize designs. “Canva is an online designing software that makes designing images simple and is easily accessible allowing you to create designs for Web or print. Canva has various preloaded layouts that you can use and customise to create blog graphics, presentations, Facebook covers, flyers, posters, invitations and even magazines […]
Octavio Ocampo’s Surrealist Paintings Offer Two In One Optical Illusions
Octavio Ocampo is a Mexican surrealist painter born on February 28, 1943 in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico. He also has studied acting, dancing, film and theater. Since 1976, Ocampo works only in painting and sculpture and at present primarily in the metamorphic style. He superimposes and juxtaposes “realistic and figurative details within the images […]
Hada’s Fog Chapter Eighteen Part Two
Hada’s Fog Chapter Eighteen, Part Two is posted. See menu above. Hada complains about Berkeley weather, “I took off my coat but maybe I should have left it on. This house is freezing cold. It’s worse than New Jersey. More damp. Soaks into your bones.” Her granddaughter tries to make Hada comfortable, […]