It's been a whirlwind six months since the initial release of my debut novel (Pretty Little Mess: A Jane Luck Adventure) in eBook format. Since then I've added about 10 new chapters, several new supporting characters, developed the story for added depth and realism, and prepared to release the new edition in eBook and Print …
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Opposites attract. I hear people say it all the time. I’ve said it myself. I can relate. Though my husband and I have some things in common, we also have quite a few fundamental characteristics that are opposite. Because of this, in many good ways we complement one another. It’s like a natural system of …
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No wonder so many of our parents and grandparents had separate beds. Some of them had separate rooms. For all their "traditionalism", they had some good ideas about how to keep relationships balanced through the manipulation of distance--ideas that some consider to be progressive nowadays. There is truly something to be said for the “man …
Good touch is awesome. It's immediate and intimate and provokes a slew of cognitive responses in a way that sight, smell, taste, and hearing just don't. Good touch has the power to heal and, in a sense, to create. It influences the production of growth hormone in infants. It has the power to alleviate the …
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Someone once told me that while detachment can be a very useful survival tool in certain situations, it should not be a way of life. Yet I’m finding that there are some circumstances and people with whom I have had to adopt a lifetime strategy of detachment. Well maybe I’m not employing the strategy of …
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I love Bill Maher and all unabashed commentators like him who know how to sum up bullshit. Take, for example his comments regarding Addyi, the new "female Viagra": "...the new female sex pill, Addyi. Yes, that’s right. There’s now a pill that makes women want more sex, but can also lower blood pressure and put …
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Bermuda's on my "Traipse Across the World" list. No, I haven't been—only Jane Luck, my alter ego has. Yes I'm dreaming again. I'm picturing myself there. It's a little game I like to play called Pretending--that's Pre-intending. I'm setting the scene in my mind, just the way I like it. Sooner or later, the Universe …
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Whether you write in a journal, for a blog, for poetry readings, creative gatherings, for your own pleasure, or for the masses, there may be times when bringing your deepest emotions to light becomes painful. Write it anyway, the painful stuff is some of the best work, not just because dumping it on the page …
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The grass usually looks greener on the other side when you refuse to water your own. If you haven't figured it out by now, I'm pretty interested in this topic of people traveling abroad to find love and escape the dating drama that may have become common for them in their native countries. According to …
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At times, I sit back and recall my days as a devout, nearly fundamentalist, Christian and lay minister. I consciously de-converted from organized religion 8 years ago, and I consider the effect that inherited thinking patterns had on my experience. One glaring element of my worldview was a strong sense of victimhood, though I wouldn’t …
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