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Expressing our inner questions: Writing and reading as therapy

♦ January 23, 2018 ♦ Leave a comment

Writing was something I started as a very young girl. I could read when I was four and my earliest journals started after my best friend was killed in a fire when I was five, he was only six. That was not something I could make sense of. I wrote from the age of five …

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Use your voice and your word: You’re more powerful than you know

♦ January 9, 2018 ♦ Leave a comment

The speech that Oprah made at the Golden Globes was so very important. Not only for young girls watching the show, but for everyone who has ever been victimized in any way. She is an amazing speaker, and respected by many because of her outstanding accomplishments and her unending search for the truth. And coming …

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Using plain language in self-help writing connects writers with their readers

♦ December 29, 2017 ♦ Leave a comment

Sometimes when I read self-help books, I have trouble with the language the writers have used to express their ideas. I’m a writer who is firmly in the simple language camp, and I’m not impressed when writers use flowery language or three-dollar words (as my mother calls them) to sound as if they “know” more …

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Writing, loving–inseparable

♦ October 13, 2016 ♦ Leave a comment

I believe it’s no coincidence that once I chose to write full time my world opened up in completely exceptional ways. I have been struggling with having the confidence to just write, write, write. I mean, a full-time writer, how can I be that? How can I make enough money doing that? How can I …

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