Come Alive by Jonathan Mead Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. – Ralph Waldo Emerson If you had one week left to live, would you still be doing what you’re doing now? In what areas of your life are you preparing to live? Take them off your To Do list and add […]
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I'm a writer. I also bake. And knit. A lot. My novels are available anywhere ebooks/paperbacks/audiobooks are sold online. Find more info on my blog: http://www.madebymeghan.ca
Travel by Chris Guillebeau If we live truly, we shall see truly. – Ralph Waldo Emerson Not everyone wants to travel the world, but most people can identify at least one place in the world they’d like to visit before they die. Where is that place for you, and what will you do to make […]
Post-it Question by Jenny Blake That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. Where is the master who could have taught Shakespeare? Where is the master who could have instructed Franklin, or Washington, or Bacon, or Newton? . . . Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare. […]
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#Trust30 – prompt #3 – One Strong Belief
One Strong Belief by Buster Benson  It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance The world is […]
I have just had the pleasure of reading Gary Scott’s (AKA Scott Fitzgerald Gray) novella, One Size Fits All. Now, I must predicate this mini review with the fact that I know the author, Scott, though we have never actually met face to face. Scott has story edited a number of my screenplays, though only […]
Day 2 of the #Trust30 30-day writing challenge from ralphwaldoemerson.me begins with this prompt: Today by Liz Danzico Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. The force of character is cumulative. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance If ‘the voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks,’ […]
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#Trust30 – 1st prompt
I just signed up to participate in the Self-Reliance, Ralph Waldo Emerson online initiative. #Trust30 is a 30 day writing challenge. You receive a daily prompt and respond to it… in writing. So I sign up, THEN I check out the 1st prompt: Gwen Bell – 15 Minutes to Live We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, […]
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Joanne’s Birthday Socks
A very lovely friend of mine turned 30 last week [ah, 30 I remember you fondly, as you blew by many, many years ago] and I wanted to help her celebrate this milestone in style, so I knit her some socks: And last Monday, in a brief sunny break, we sipped iced tea in the […]
…I’ve just had buds forming for a long, long while now. [Oh! You thought I was being deeply and unusually personal for a moment. No, no. I was personifying the baby apple tree:] [Or Not]. On a gardening note, I was really hoping that those ants were eating those aphids, but alas it seems (according […]
Thank you for all your feedback (most of it via Facebook). Based on your concerns and, of course, also your “likes” here is a 2nd draft of the book cover for the AFTER THE VIRUS ebook. I also worked up a version with a biohazard sign and then a version combining the biohazard sign and […]