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Continue reading →: Keeping Silent: A Book Lover’s Personal Victory
The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods. – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Beads of perspiration crowned my brow. I cringed with every crack of the poor book’s spine, every wrinkle of its pages. The offender gentleman sitting across from me on the train took no…
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Continue reading →: cleaning out the cobwebs, moving forward
You always pass failure on the way to success. – Mickey Rooney When your office eats a stack of books, it’s crying out for help. And mine was screamin’ for a scrubbin’. So I got down to it. And in the process, I had one of those infamous “ah-hah” moments.…
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Continue reading →: when imagination attacks
I admit to having an imagination feverish enough to melt good judgment. – Dean R. Koontz, Seize the Night It’s easy to forget how powerful a writer’s imagination can be. We tend to think of it as a gentle giant we harness to get our work done and then admire…
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Continue reading →: 8 lessons freelancers can learn from WWE superstars
Controversial yet undeniably successful. There’s a lot that freelancers can learn from World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) superstars. One: Own your awesomeness WWE superstars have more self-confidence than a souped-up housecat. And they’ll tell anyone who’ll listen. “I’m the best there is, the best there was, the best there ever will…
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Continue reading →: happy national rubber ducky day!
One is never alone with a rubber duck. – Douglas Adams January 13, 2013, is National Rubber Ducky Day. Obviously, I’m going to sidetrack from my usual writerly topics and take a moment to celebrate one of the greatest inventions ever. The rubber ducky. Rubber duckies have been charming our…

