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Archive for: February, 2011

Reality Shows Can Be Dangerous

Reality Shows Can Be Dangerous

Sink or Swim - Reality shows can be hazardous to your health and welfare. Some require that you perform dangerous tasks that can cause bodily harm. Others require that you make a fool of yourself in front of millions of people. Many people are willing to risk life, limb and dignity just to win huge monetary [...]

People of the Forest

People of the Forest

From the author of best selling novel Nu–Del Daughter of the Forest comes a new breakthrough novel that intertwines two different worlds. One filled with hard working forest people that live off the land, having many mates to care for, families that work together to fend for each other and protect against the tribes that [...]

One Mother’s True Story

One Mother’s True Story

Title: Sucking Up Yellow Jackets Women were placed on this earth to serve men and appease their every whim. Wives have many different roles but according to some men their only one is homemaker and of course mother. Labeling us as housekeepers, mothers and caregivers definitely short changes our skills, attributes and much more as [...]

My Son Ryan and AIDS

My Son Ryan and AIDS

In 1984, one week before Christmas, Jeanne White was told that her son Ryan had contracted AIDS from a blood product he’d used to control his hemophilia. The doctors gave him six months to live. Struggling to make life as normal as possible for her thirteen-year-old son, she attempted to have him return to school [...]

Baseball Nights

Baseball Nights

Mama told others, “A storm is brewing.”

Those women sitting on bleachers laughed.

Mama knew, and grabbed my hand -

tugged me into the cement clubhouse -

you see – no one listened to Mama – not

during a baseball game.

Who is Next?

Who is Next?

The lives of so many people including mine have been turned inside and out The lives of so many people have changed for the Worse no doubt Their lives were normal just like yours and mine Their lives were normal one minute and the next far from fine It sneaks up slowly without a single [...]

Building a Platform

Building a Platform

How to Write, Edit, and Sell a Novel: Advice from the Forum Wednesday January 12, 2011 by Ginny Wiehardt Writer Shelly Goodman Wright contributed an excellent piece in the forum on how she finished a novel and then “built a platform” for it before submitting to agents. Because she provides such a good example of [...]

Winter Falls

Winter Falls

Winter blew in early that year The trees gave up their autumn finery And settled into stark black and gray Pointing bare angry fingers Up to the frozen sky A solitary bird stirred suddenly to flight Caught daydreaming by surprise In the sudden fall of harsh season Taking to wing with a lonely cry The wind whistled and [...]

Stay With Us…

Stay With Us…

For the victims of the January 24, 2011 Domodedovo International Airport bombing Thirty five extinguished breaths Thirty five senseless deaths Thirty five names posted today …in a world morally grey To be buried in the search-engine ten-minute update To be snatched away to their pointless fate No!  I object, I will not let… …the machine [...]

The Possibility of Shadows

The Possibility of Shadows

I once belonged to a psychic development group. In this group we would practicing reading each other, using whatever medium the individual felt strongest at. We used tarot cards, astrology, automatic writing, visions….anything that worked. One day a new man came into the group. He was interested in becoming a professional psychic reader and offered [...]

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