tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17137872596345925012024-03-04T21:05:32.515-08:00KeatsWriteAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16137699947337181975noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713787259634592501.post-77241261860465287102016-05-26T20:59:00.000-07:002016-06-09T06:42:29.299-07:00It's ALL me<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #fff2cc;">I saw a post the other day on Facebook of someone so happy about the last bit of years. How the years gave back to her, launched her and helped settle her into how content she is today. I thought it was great and I thought about how much must have been woven into all that time of her life. Lots of ups and downs I’m sure. A good example though of how keeping your eye on the prize and steadily moving forward does a lot for a person (and says a lot about a person). It made me happy to see them so happy after walking through a good chunk of years, and then it got me thinking about my <i>own </i>travels in my life so far. What the heck happened here in the last 20+ years? </span></span><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 20.24px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The years have definitely given back to me in good ways and, of course, I've definitely given it a run for the money at times as well. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #fff2cc;"><br /></span></span> <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 20.24px;">As I sit here, instead of just looking back on “how far I’ve come” I want to remember the “wows” and go beyond the great of today. And I can tell you my life has had many of "wows", and no, they are not all awesome. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This isn't one of those big, deep posts that will ramble on about how meaningful life all is, it's</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> just a pause to stop and think (maybe get </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">you</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> thinking) about all the “in betweens” that take place over the chunks of time in our lives, you know, the "let's forgets" and the stuff we don’t care to discuss often. But maybe that's the </span></span><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 20.24px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “other good stuff”? </span><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">We all have landed where we are today but what all took place? Certainly not just a smooth run with rainbows, unicorns and all the glory we could handle, right?</span><br />
<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span> <span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 20.24px;">I mean, if I wanted to just try and boast about ME today, I'd say I'm an accomplished designer, published author, mother and a friend. My daughter is awesome and my boyfriend is amazing. I own pets, a Jeep and a house (and wouldn't we all just love to go on?) but really, there is so much more to how it is that I am exactly who it is I've become, even if it's not all glamorous. There is a</span></span><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline;">nother side of my life that makes me </span><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline;">ME</span><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline;"> today. Should we set aside these <i>less pretty </i>things? I think they could be respected.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Way back </i></span><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">when</span><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, I was bound for college, nothing could stop me. And whew, I made it! And then I’ve had some amazing jobs. I waitressed for many years adding to the bank while I worked </span><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the real job, </span><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">moving up as I could</span><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’ve been a live-in nanny, a kids clothing designer and worked nonprofit helping kids in underprivileged schools. I’ve worked as an artist painting murals and people's families, children and pets! I’ve worked in graphic design, IT, marketing, web development and design again. I’m a proud mama who has lived in the Minnesota snow, Colorado and it’s mountains and California on the beach...what a great mix! </span><span style="color: #fff2cc; line-height: 22.08px;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> I've had the best of friends and have been a good friend back. I've been fortunate to have gone paragliding and rock climbing, and learn the art of fly fishing, which I still love. And I have to say I feel lucky that </span></span><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 20.24px; white-space: pre-wrap;">in my very young and fun days in life, </span><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">I didn't drop health and fitness as something important over the years. I've loved and been loved (cliche, I know).</span><br />
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But also </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>way back when</i></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">...I’ve been married and I’ve gotten divorced. I’ve failed at work at times I knew I was better, and I've failed as a friend. I lived with the fact that I supposedly couldn’t have children (</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">but then I did</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">...</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">what an amazing blessing)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. My dad passed and family pressures put me in a very dark place. My body has been weak and I've had multiple surgeries that wore on me deeply and physically. I've lost some people I considered friends along the way and have felt alone. </span></span><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">I wear my heart on my sleeve and unless you do too, I can’t tell you what a unique struggle that alone can be. </span><br />
<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span> <span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’ve been so stressed my hair was falling out and so sick I lost more weight than I’d care to admit. I’ve gotten beat down by people close to me and sadly for the tough chick I think I am, I had to give up the fight. </span><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 20.24px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’ve had great relationships, failed relationships, and meaningless relationships I’ll never forget. </span><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 20.24px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’ve been happy with myself and then so mad at myself I couldn’t stand it, and even went so far as to have lost a relationship with myself altogether at one point (glad I came out of that). None of t</span><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 20.24px; white-space: pre-wrap;">hose times were pretty, nor were they any sort of boost to my moral.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span> <span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline;">Should we just admit that most of the time we look at ourselves, we are concerned about where we are </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>today, </i>and what it all says to all the people supposedly looking at us? I mean, are "they" really all that concerned with us? I say respect all of yourself. And i</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline;">t’s not just about today. We are made up of what we </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline;">were</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline;"> as well and our travels to get where we are. What are you made of? What’s behind that social media smile presented to the world? </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Just when you don’t expect it, something awesome happens! While going about my day and sorting through my to do’s, there it is! Incoming note that I have been given the <b>Liebster Award</b>! What is this you ask? Well, if I may repeat the words of <a href="http://www.womanreinventsself.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Celia Kennedy</a> (the wonderful blogger who nominated me), Liebster (German) “means beloved, sweetheart, lover, darling”. It is an award that exists only on the internet and is a great gift to newer bloggers, given from a blogger, to a blogger…<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">and may they continue to pay it forward</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">My blogging has followed my path in life. For years, I actually blogged under another name and almost felt too <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">shy</i> to put my words out there. I’d rather hide than be known for what I had to say. Who would really care? And if they did, I probably wouldn’t know that, or know them anyway so why did it matter?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">But it does matter. And to me this world of blogging has so many perks and gives so much. It gives to the reader (when it hits the right person at the right time) and it gives to the blogger (for all the things they have to share…it just feels good to give what you know, share a little bit and put yourself out there).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">My path continues and today, it brings me here, to the Liebster Award through Celia Kennedy. Celia has given me some questions to answer and with my intro behind me, I give you those questions along with my answers. So take a read as I, along with many other bloggers, continue to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">pay it forward.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="color: #fff2cc;">My first blog was under another blog space that I had before I moved to my permanent space here. I had a blog about how “Half is just that…half”. It was about the fact that many of us say that we are “all for” something or this way and that, but when it really comes down to it, we may not be. It’s that it feels good to be a part of something but then again, something keeps us from being “all in”. Relationships, careers, moves…so many things. It got a great response and although I was writing mostly for me, I realized there were others that felt the same and some I seemed to have hit right when they needed it. Felt great.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">How would you say your blog has evolved?</span></span></b><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="color: #fff2cc;">This new set up I have evolved through some book reviews. I started this space particularly for that reason but over time, I knew that I had more to say and that I could do all of it in the same spot. So, I opened up KeatsWrite and that is my new home. Blogs always seem to start for a purpose…you feel you <i>need</i> one or <i>should have one, </i>or people want to see your stuff there. To me, and what I think now over time is that a blog serves a purpose that holds many layers. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="color: #fff2cc;">Telling stories and sharing thoughts with different points of views! Really? Writing can get people <i>thinking</i> and that’s what it’s all about. Don’t be shy about having your own point of view and be open and willing to listen to other’s. It satisfies me when something I put down hits home or takes someone on a needed escape. I love what it does for me and hopefully what it can do for someone else (on any level), plain and simple!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Has your blog led you in an unexpected direction?</span></span></b><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="color: #fff2cc;">I can say it has in a way. It’s helped me get some of my individuality back. I think we get so involved in work and misguided goals and/or feeling overwhelmed with obligations that we can forget that there is real person inside! What is around us does not define us and by being able to “blog what I know” helps me stay grounded to who I really am.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">If you were stranded on a desert island, what would you do?</span></span></b><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Have you ever revealed something in your blog that a loved one was surprised by?</span></span></b><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Not a hidden fact or anything (like I hate sardines) but more of by the way about me period. I’m a deep thinker and have a lot to say when I get back in my head and let it rip. I think that it’s been surprising to those closer to me these days that I am that person (and always have been). You don’t always have those bigger discussions with people and it can take a while. To read something can be a surprise that you let yourself go there at all. So…maybe not “surprising” but more like “eye opening” is how I see it. </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #fff2cc;">Whew!! How did they get out of all those errands?? Guess they had been growing up regardless of what their big brother thought. Perfect. The two girls were three years apart with Tara being the older one. 10 and 7 and feeling pretty awesome about being left in charge of themselves. Their family had horses and dogs, among other things, on a farm out in the open fields of Minnesota.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #fff2cc;">Well these two girls were on their way. They had BIG plans. They weren’t allowed to leave the house while their parents were away. All the kids in the area had a habit of running into the woods or finding a random beach somewhere and getting lost for hours. With no mother to call them home for dinner, they may not make it home at all! So there they were, all grown up and nowhere to go. What to do? Beauty school! They went down to the bedroom they shared and got all set up. They had brushes, hot rollers, hairpins and all the makeup they could gather. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #fff2cc;">They were getting along great and feeling quite accomplished with their <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">hair art</i> when all of a sudden Carrie started to point to the closet. The closet had two bi-fold doors with wooden blinds. All white of course, to match the trim in the bright pink room their daddy had painted for them. Tara looked over and they both just stared at it. There it was about two blinds up from the middle. It was a spider and it was on the move.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #fff2cc;">At this point, the hair project was off the table. This was obvious. They were thankful for all the supplies though! They spent the rest of the afternoon throwing the rest of the hair styling items at the dang thing. It wouldn’t budge! As their fear grew, so did their distance between themselves and the spider. When they ran out of hair goodies they turned to other little trinkets and things they had out on their bedroom shelves. Notepads, bells, pencil boxes…you name it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #fff2cc;">But that spider would NOT move! They were hungry by now and had cried a few times. They talked about their lives and how they loved being sisters. Carrie even fell asleep at one point but Tara was stubborn and remained bound and determined to get the evil invader. She lasted longer than Carrie but soon enough, she too had fallen asleep.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #fff2cc;">He calmed them down and finally was able to get the full story. It was behind him, they said. It was huge, they had determined. And it would eat him right then and there if he did not save their lives at once.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #fff2cc;">He slowly turned around. A spider? Sat here all day? He was looking at the door and leaned in a bit closer as the girls took in huge breaths in unison. He bowed his head and, wait, was he laughing? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #fff2cc;">The girls had been there all day in defense of their home and their lives. What they didn’t know is that whatever spider had possibly been there once, was now long gone. And with the ruckus they had caused, it was surely long gone and then some! What they had been scared of all day, and what robbed them of their once-only chance at freedom…were brush bristles. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt;"><b><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">As this award moves on, here are the Liebster Award Rules:</span></b><span style="color: #fff2cc;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #fff2cc;">1. Acknowledge and link back your nominator. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #fff2cc;">3. Nominate other bloggers who have less than 200 followers. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #fff2cc;">4. Here’s the challenging part: Think of 11 new questions to ask your nominees. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt;">5. Let your nominees know that you have nominated them. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">As I pass the award, my Questions for <i>Terry Lee</i>, <i>Venky Iyer</i> and March McCarron are:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #fff2cc;">1. What is the first thing that comes to mind for you when you think of what defines you that might be surprising to your blogging audience?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #fff2cc;">2. What did you think of the blogging concept when you first thought of blogging for yourself?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #fff2cc;">4. Speaking of personal, do you write solely for the public or do you have private journals of your own?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #fff2cc;">5. When you are feeling under pressure for whatever reason, what do you look to for relief?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #fff2cc;">6. Now that you have been writing for a while, what is your favorite piece (personal, published, or in the works)?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #fff2cc;">8. Most writing today is clearly on computers…do you carry a notebook or handwrite any of your notes and ideas?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #fff2cc;">9. Blogging is different for everyone. How does it feel for you each and every time you post? Meaning, does it tend to feel like a task or is it more for personal satisfaction? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #fff2cc;">10. What would you say to someone who is a bit more removed from the electronic world and thinks that all of us “bloggers” are just wasting our time?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #fff2cc;">11. Now that spring is here, what does it mean to you where you live?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #fff2cc;">As this award moves on, I’d love to read the answers to the questions! Let me know when you are sharing your Liebster Award blog because I’d love to check it out! I hope you enjoy putting more out there as much as I did. Thank you Celia and happy blogging!</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16137699947337181975noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713787259634592501.post-75263665654443640432015-02-02T10:06:00.002-08:002015-02-02T10:06:25.998-08:00Don't forget the sweets ...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFsjKSnMkEqwB1jup9P_XwNGCyzRMBuuWKT2DTIPBNxEFf827DsyMdj2Yb5uo8Ud_3rjBtmmT1uByDmJKU_VmOiQH8hwMbIWPaj0wOnXpHJevaeG6jINMUuyxT5gg78-MbwJXZ1swDON4/s1600/girl-write.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFsjKSnMkEqwB1jup9P_XwNGCyzRMBuuWKT2DTIPBNxEFf827DsyMdj2Yb5uo8Ud_3rjBtmmT1uByDmJKU_VmOiQH8hwMbIWPaj0wOnXpHJevaeG6jINMUuyxT5gg78-MbwJXZ1swDON4/s1600/girl-write.png" height="184" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><span style="color: #fff2cc;">Today I didn’t really have a big topic to write about per se, more than I really just had a thought that intrigued me. Many times we write and talk about our problems or hard times. We talk about the wisdom that we have taken from those times and what we have learned from it all, and oh what a story! What we’re not talking about too much, or maybe I’m not finding it, is what the turning point within ourselves was. I guess my intrigue stems from those most awesome moments that left us feeling refreshed and satisfied, and able to move on.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">When we are in times that seem unreal and it seems like things just can’t get any worse, harder, longer (whatever), we know that someday we will see it differently, or at least we hope so. We know that someday we can share our stories with others who are going through the same thing and maybe, just maybe, it will give them some idea or shed some light on a hope for the future. </span><i style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">It also reiterates to ourselves that we actually did it.</i><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"> But before those stories are told, there is that quiet and very sweet moment when things change, and we feel it. And it feels good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><span style="color: #fff2cc;">It comes when you feel like you have finally shed enough of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">whatever it is</i> and things have shifted. It may not seem like a lot, but you’ve shed just enough of the pain, struggle or stress … enough of the pity party or whatever it is, and it changes your outlook completely. It makes you feel like you can get on your feet again. You feel refreshed in some way and able to move on and move forward. You take a sigh and look around with a feeling of <i>satisfaction</i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">.<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwggk-LQhKBFLvpNqsFTlwiODHh3itczE3HdeAWc8hFEs6Wv1XncDtn5rvVmvgKxOCy9vCIghTV2p4Hq88VFYKMgObpkvxCaW627jPR9mViSIwzRU-NxYScYvyj63ms05Vh85ft5SD-SM/s1600/hike-top.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwggk-LQhKBFLvpNqsFTlwiODHh3itczE3HdeAWc8hFEs6Wv1XncDtn5rvVmvgKxOCy9vCIghTV2p4Hq88VFYKMgObpkvxCaW627jPR9mViSIwzRU-NxYScYvyj63ms05Vh85ft5SD-SM/s1600/hike-top.png" height="260" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><span style="color: #fff2cc;">Of course, if we do make it through something big, there is the awesome fact that we have the win behind us, and that is most definitely something. We can say that we stuck it out and made it through. </span></span><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">We can tell our stories and can say “Yes! I did that!”, and we have transcended.</span><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><span style="color: #fff2cc;">We feel good telling the whole big story and how we came out the other side, however I say the story alone leaves something to be missed. Something we should hold tight. </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><span style="color: #fff2cc;">What we never really share is that <i>sweet, sweet moment</i>. That moment when you wake up and quite simply, there it is; it’s your future. Everything looks different and you feel like you can finally take a breath for the first time in who knows how long. It’s the <i>sweet spot of it all</i> where you know that “it” really and truly is behind you <i>(and the possibility of things ahead of you for that matter)</i>. You take a breath and stand up tall, while taking in the </span></span><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">private realization and celebration that you have conquered whatever it was. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">Even if these </span><i style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">shifts</i><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"> don’t make for great storytelling, I hope for us all, those moments are not forgotten. It’s when we smiled to ourselves. When we put our head up high and we walked ourselves forward. It may be short-lived, but after everything preceding it, </span><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">nothing compares to it, at least not at that time. We are thankful, we are grateful, we are glad … and it is so, so sweet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><span style="color: #fff2cc;">That click in your brain that you are now moving forward with this person, and your life is changing. You smile to yourself with excited nerves. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">You have shifted, and you feel happy and accomplished.<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><span style="color: #fff2cc;">So why do those moments get tucked away? They are the best of the best! I know for me, I live a colorful life and with that does come struggle but it also comes with many sweets. And I look back and it is those sweet moments that I remember when I finally could take a breath and look around and say, “Wow”. The accomplishment has arrived even if the struggle is not quite done. These moments come in all shapes and sizes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><span style="color: #fff2cc;">One time, I was getting my mail and another time I had just gotten to the grocery story. And yet another, I landed in Colorado without a clue. However simple, those times were a few <i>shifters</i> I will not forget.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><span style="color: #fff2cc;">I’d agree that these moments are happening privately for the most part but I also think we share these moments less because they are not so glamorous, and it’s the big story that is much more appealing to our fans in life. It can seem like our pride comes mainly from the accomplishments that others can see. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><span style="color: #fff2cc;">To me, we are not defined by our stories alone, but <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">more so</b> by these private moments when we realize our successes or relief, and can feel what we have become. These moments occur before any stories are told and are ours and ours alone. I’m not saying that to “live to tell it” doesn’t mean something because it certainly does, but it’s that moment with yourself when you realize that it is happened at all that is the grand prize. That’s the good stuff, even if to share these moments </span></span><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">make us vulnerable or make us blush</span><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16137699947337181975noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713787259634592501.post-315101278200236062015-01-06T09:24:00.003-08:002015-01-06T09:40:31.116-08:00On one level, it is a reality<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">I think that most of us have similarities in the fact that we all have certain “issues” with ourselves that we really just don’t want to admit. Why do we continue to put things off, be lazy and hurt the ones we love over and over again? I know we always say that we don’t mean to but let’s be real, most of the time? Most people are full of it when they say that. They’ve done it by choice, they just don’t really want to admit it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It’s almost like, we all have some sort of need for chaos or the negative. I think it’s because we are all a bit selfish and want things and time for ourselves. This is on top of the fact that we all seem to fall victim to our surroundings and feel like we have no choice but to do some of the surprising things we do.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We are lazy and eat bad, ignore our commitments to exercise and health and say we deserve it. We hurt each other by doing things we know we should not do, but it’s because we have no choice, because of ‘blah blah’. Why can’t we just come out and say that our commitments to ourselves and our loved ones are just not as strong as we’d like to believe, and that a lot of the time, our choices are ruled by fear? Fear of a person, failure, change … could be anything.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We can also admit that really, we just might be quite comfortable where we are and don’t really want to make changes or do certain things, even though we say we do. We only really hear someone admit things like this when it’s harmless or maybe when we take pride in the fact that others might envy our choices. You rarely hear people say they hurt someone because they are selfish or that they knew it would hurt people but did it for their own gain.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I think we are all hiding a bit from ourselves and others. I think we lack the strength to do what we want and tend to feel ‘stuck’ in a certain situation. What would it take for us all to be able to truly come out into the world as our true selves? Can we even admit what that is to ourselves? When will we have the strength to do what it is we really want to do?</span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16137699947337181975noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713787259634592501.post-62916229685510340772015-01-05T11:00:00.000-08:002015-01-06T09:12:58.382-08:00Reality bits - "All that glam!"<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16137699947337181975noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713787259634592501.post-66774158776665229682015-01-04T07:38:00.000-08:002015-01-06T09:13:17.613-08:00What kind of “Creative” are you? <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Are you generally creative or are you a </span><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">????</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #fff2cc;">Are you a painter, a writer, sculptor? Do you have one creative outlet and is that what defines you? Many, find themselves simply creative overall and have multiple ways they express themselves, while others focus on one, main and specific thing. A professional photographer, for example...books, studio and the works. It’s what he/she does. Would you say that you fall into a category of the arts?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We all talk to people everyday and sometimes find ourselves </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">surprised</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to hear about their secret dabbles...happens all the time. The accountant in the next cubicle is part of a garage band, your hair stylist makes jewelry, your boss builds classic cars and your child’s daycare provider is a dancer!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #fff2cc;">What makes it so that these talents get lost behind other careers or are they not lost at all and are simply creative outlets? I guess you could say the same about a lot of things but sometimes we find ourselves expecting more out of our creative friends (and even ourselves). Do we wonder why every guy we see at the gym is not a bodybuilder or why every woman we see in the lap pool didn’t go for the Gold? Probably not. But meet someone who sings and performs on the weekends or maybe has some art on the walls at the local cafe and we feel it somehow defines them. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Katy Perry (stage name) had music </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in her bones</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> since she was a small girl. There was no doubt about the fact that she wanted to sing. Course she started out in gospel music as that was her only outlet. Not sure about it, she kept at it until she found her home in music and broke out into Pop. She went for it even though it was against her childhood family values overall.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Would you be willing to give up your </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">life goodies</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> that you have now to </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">go for it?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He was writing, and writing some more. He and his wife lived with pretty much nothing while he typed away. I’m reminded of a story (written by him) explaining how he </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">maybe</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> had enough money to walk down the street for a six pack and buy diapers for his little one. But, with the art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in his bones, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">he couldn’t stop, kept at it and now writes more than 3000 words every day!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #fff2cc;">And just maybe, you will route your talents to teach others and that, in itself, is your true legacy?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As a prima ballerina, Jessica has made quite the career for herself. With leading roles from Russia into the U.S.A., she has many on her resume. She takes it beyond that though and also puts together concepts for fashion shows, works in the theater and also has directed more than one of her own theater productions!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Of course, it’s always fun, and feels somewhat </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">celebrity</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> say say “I’m a writer” or “I’m an artist” but the biggest question is “What does that mean to YOU?” Can you feel it? Can you feel it in your bones? Are you “jonesing” for your talent each and every day or is it more of a hobby? Maybe you just like the image it gives you socially and at parties. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sometimes creative habits are good just as they are and they give us an outlet when the day is done. I know for me, if I’m being honest, I can not survive in a </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">closed world, put me in a box, I have limits,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> kind of existence. If I had to hide my talents behind a set career in an office somewhere, I’d be doomed (and I did give it the honest try). But for some of my close friends it is that very career (trade or business, for example) that provides them their outlets at all and that is where they find their balance.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I say, it is good stuff either way...as long as we are honest. But if you are a true Creative, let’s be honest there too and if it’s what you feel and what you want, I can only hope there are more </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">go for its</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> out there! </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #fff2cc;">Creative habits support good living, creative teachers can form new paths for others and defined creatives have their set focus. Our respect for our talents and ourselves helps us to find that direction. Today I say, I hope we all find our home in our talents and can live with them and share them when we can, so that we are giving ourselves and our talents the respect they each deserve. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;"><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To me, it’s this respect for yourself that should allow you to ask yourself about your talents and be honest. And if it would feel good and right to give that talent some more attention...then I say <b>go for it!</b></span></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16137699947337181975noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713787259634592501.post-72782432135568495222015-01-03T22:28:00.000-08:002015-01-06T09:13:34.550-08:00Reality bits - Fun Facts<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="color: #f6b26b;">Parts of our world...shared in what's around us, and in history. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #fff2cc;">I like reminding myself of these types of things. It reminds me that what we do when we are writing is real and what we do will be remembered. And just as our choices in our stories are each unique, we are all unique as the creators behind them. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">1.</span></b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"> </span><span style="color: #fff2cc;">What is something we hear about and ourselves have casually referred to having, that Charles Dickens did suffer from?</span></span></div>
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<li><span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Robert Frost (famous writer of John F. Kennedy) </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Wow!)</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket.” </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(ha ha, well said!)</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Flannery O’Connor </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(takes the excuses for slacking right out of it doesn't it?)</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thomas Clayton Wolfe </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(I...do not have this issue, ha ha)</span></span></li>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>6.</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Danielle Steel - </b></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She is known for working on 4-5 books at a time. She also would work 20 hours a day working first drafts...on a typewriter!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>8.</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Truman Capote -</b></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #f6b26b;"> </span><span style="color: #fff2cc;">He wrote longhand (and with his cigarettes handy of course) and could only write in the horizontal position! Yep, he wrote lying down in bed or laid out on the couch. Nice!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;"><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hey, we all have our quirks. As for me, well, I have an issue with the immediate space around me and my comfort in it (to the annoyance of those around me at times). I don’t like clutter around me when I sit down to write. I like things situated and in their place. Things on the outside could be in complete chaos but if my little bubble of space is clear...no worries, I’m good to go!</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What about you?</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16137699947337181975noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713787259634592501.post-41329278324733728832015-01-02T09:08:00.000-08:002015-01-06T09:15:43.453-08:00The Fault in our Stars - a great ride!<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;">Without realizing it this story gets you thinking, about yourself. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;">Hazel holds a hope and a clarity that allow her to think beyond her challenges. It can put a shame on those of us who blow right by that clarity at times. She is bitter from her illness. This bitterness is sweetened, however, by her newly found, special friend, Gus. Their relationship follows the familiar but their perspectives together are more mature than a lot of us reading this blog.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The best part of Hazel for me is that she is </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">real.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></div>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></b>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;">I liked how it felt like I was there, in the day to day with Hazel, Gus and Isaac. The book gives you intimate and friendly relationships. The teenage innocence and curiosities are natural and the bond between friends is admirable. Although the young adults are struggling, the parents are having their own hard times with everything and the two sometimes challenge each other. Even so, with the way the characters are presented, it did not leave me with any “good guy” vs. “bad guy” viewpoint. John Green also throws in a bit of a surprise that involves a character far removed from this home group. It is interesting to follow him as well.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;">Find out more by checking out</span> <a href="http://gingergelsheimer.blogspot.com/p/how-book-review-depot.html" target="_blank">Book Review Depot FAQs</a>.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16137699947337181975noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713787259634592501.post-41078640321993693282015-01-02T09:00:00.000-08:002015-01-06T09:14:02.362-08:00Successful or Passionate?<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’m happily getting to know more and more of my writer friends each day and my thoughts are focused a lot on my writing. And I have to say that energy must be in the air because more than one discussion on this very subject have come up right as I was putting this together - I’m thinking it’s a never ending topic.</span></div>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ideally, I’d like to pair the two sides and see my ability to bring home the bacon walk hand in hand with doing the things I love. I think I am doing my best work when I’m actually enjoying myself, so why not?. Of course there is the factor that passion alone can’t make the world care about</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the things we each personally hold dear, no matter how much we want to write about them in our stories. Man, it is hard to avoid that inner adrenaline when you love what you are doing and writing! So, we forge forward and hope that our readers think our story is just as awesome as we do and something they just can’t live without. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Then I wonder, can I have </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">smart passion</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">? Is there such a thing? I mean, for example, I feel really good about drawing a portrait for someone who just got married, or just had a baby and if I get paid also, this is a good thing, right? I just want to believe that! The same goes with my writing.</span></span></div>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But since our passions are not a guarantee, I think that doing something that puts gas in my Jeep </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">today</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> so I can four wheel and go out to my favorite restaurant seems like the right thing for me also! And paying the bills is certainly a success. Could how I go about doing that though cause me to question if my passion comes first? </span></span></div>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’d like to think we can have both, although I read a lot about the fact that the two should be </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">blended with care</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (i.e. Forbes - Passion will put you in the poor house). Am I just a dreamer? (I’ve been called that too). I think the big fantasy would be to give it all up and go for it, and then be amazingly successful of course. What a great feeling! I know a lot of people with the want and desire to do just that but many times that is not how it goes down. The realist in some of us just can’t give it all up to run and go. </span></span></div>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I do know that when I am on the receiving end of a good book or story, I feel like I can sense the passion from the author when it’s a book that sucks me in. I can sense how they took great care in putting their characters and storyline together in such a way that it can almost seem packaged just for me. I will see the characters and feel their needs, pains and happiness. When the author can get me to care about the things a character holds dear and get me to feel right along </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">with </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">them, I think the author has let his/her passion out free to do its job. I am affected by their story. I would like to think we all write for that.</span></span></div>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the end and when I look at it for me, I have to say that it’s only because of my passion for the things I do that make any of them worth it in the first place. A means to an end, fun tickets, obligations (and yes, the bills!)...those things are always there, but I truly believe that without the ability to express what makes me true, none of that would matter to me. And so I write my stories, write with my friends and my daughter, draw for others and myself and stay in creation mode. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I can see that it’s my passion that keeps me going. To me, it is having that passion at all that is the real win and it is my driver. I think that’s the good stuff. Plain and simple. </span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16137699947337181975noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713787259634592501.post-42549586366383603022015-01-01T05:36:00.000-08:002015-01-06T09:15:30.070-08:00The bad review perspective<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Not that we like it but hey, putting your book out there </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">will</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> get some comments you may not want to hear or that hit you by (unpleasant) surprise. We all know this.</span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></b>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;">For me, during the launch of Aurora Conspiracy’s first book in the trilogy (I co-authored with Ginger Gelsheimer), we were exposed to our first official reviews. Some were really great and we were feeling pretty good, and some were feeling not so awesome. Experiencing our very first hit did cause us to sit back for a moment, quietly taking in the shock of the feedback. </span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></b>
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But then we decided to take a step back...what was this all about anyway? I can tell you in all honesty, that was one of the best decisions we made. And no, I don’t mean we gave ourselves the positive pep talk that it was all okay. I mean, we really took a look at what was being said. We decided at that point to consider that review, and all our reviews, good or bad. We had decided to look at them to</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> learn</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and see what the reader was saying, what the review could mean and what might actually be beneficial based on what had been said.</span></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></b>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I think the scariest of King's bad guys is, by far, the Overlook Hotel. Whatever the evil, spooky Overlook wants, the Overlook gets. Thank goodness it can't get up and walk </span><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">around!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>What's that I hear? the shriek of brakes, the hiss of steam, the screech of metal in the darkness ... The Halloween Blog Train is here!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><i>From the fog and steam enveloping Car #5, something emerges ... something ephemeral, slowly taking form ... Ah! There it is! The next revelation in our Story.</i></b></span></span><br />
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<b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A face, blurred and anxious, peers into my eyes. "Doctor, come quickly! She's waking!" Quickly the woman - at least I think it is a woman, despite her unseemly britches - gently removes the mask from my face. I expel a great rush of air, an indescribable relief.</b></span><br />
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<b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A strained-looking man in a white coat, an odd apparatus slung around his neck, hastens to my bedside. I've no idea who he might be. He stares at me a moment, then smiles and says, "Hello, there. Welcome back. Can you tell us who you are?"</b></span><br />
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<b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Who I am? What a strange question! I'm Jennie, of course. Miss Virginia Wade of Pennsylvania. "I ... I am Miss Wade," I manage to whisper. My voice sounds and feels as though I have not used it in many years.</b></span><br />
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<b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Ah," the doctor - for now I gather that is what he must be - nods. "And can you tell us what you last remember, Miss Wade?"</b></span><br />
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<b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">What I remember ... what I ... Bread! I remember making bread "I ... I was making bread," I murmur. "Kneading the dough. At Sister's house in Gettysburg. And then, and then, something hit me ..." I raise my hand rub my eyes. "I cannot ... remember anything after that. I ..." My voice trails off as I stair at my hand. Oh, Dear Lord! Not <i>my</i> hand, surely!</b></span><br />
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<b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I raise both my hands now, hold them in front of my face, then frantically feel my face again, my hair. Not me! Not <i>me!</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>The doctor leans down, takes my hands in his, stopping their frenzied motion. "Nurse," he says quietly over his shoulder, as though he does not want me to hear, "10 mg Valium, please."</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>"Take is easy, now, Miss Wade," he says, I cannot understand why he is smiling! Does he not see my distress? But he goes on. "You have had quite a trip, but you are doing very well. Your body feels strange to you because it is not the one you last inhabited, which, unfortunately, was damaged beyond repair when you were struck by a stray bullet during a long-ago battle. But you are quite well, I assure you. In fact, you are more than well, for you are now the first successful Past Life Transplant to ever survive the procedure!"</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="font-size: 17.7777786254883px;"><b><br /></b></span></span><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; line-height: normal;">I love this movie. It’s just plain messed up. </span><br />
<i style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; line-height: normal;">Here is the <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0482606/?ref_=nv_sr_1" target="_blank">trailer</a>! (Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman)</i><br />
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13.5pt;">What scene from a book or movie scared you more than any
other?</span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><span style="color: #fce5cd;">This
scene of this guy putting his face down on the curb and getting STOMPED has
stuck with me for years! </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">I cringe just looking at this picture! I mean,</span><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13.5pt;"> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsFpyUgkdrY" target="_blank">check this scene out!</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13.5pt;">If all of Stephen King's bad guys were after each other, who
would win and why?</span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><span style="color: #fce5cd;">Well,
being from Colorado and having stayed at <b><i>The
Stanley</i> </b>many times, I have to say that my favorite <i>bad guy</i> would be the actual hotel in The Shining! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">The Overlook Hotel holds a huge amount of history and spirit power.
It is then, the </span><b style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">place itself that has grabbed me by my fear straps</b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"> and gives me
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<span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">I’m not sure it would matter how badass you are … could you stay
focused? Could you stay sane enough? Could you win (and actually know it)?
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<span style="color: #fce5cd; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; line-height: 115%;">A simple one for you and the kiddies. This one
was a hit at school and if you like pudding and cookies, you’ll love it!</span></span><br />
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originally found this on the mommysavers.com website where they use vanilla
pudding.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #fce5cd; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; line-height: 115%;">The kids loved it and so did I!</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">They were given a beginning of a story and each writer passed the torch to the next train car (blog) to continue the story. We had no idea where it would go or how it would turn out, but it's a great story and you will never guess what happens next!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Follow the train to see how the story goes and to get to know some of the new authors.</span><br />
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cars to complete the following Halloween story. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><span style="color: #f6b26b;"><i>Follow the train to see how the
story goes and to get to know some new authors!</i></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>(If you have just arrived, click here to go to <a href="http://gingergelsheimer.blogspot.com/2014/10/authors-cave-halloween-blog-train.html" target="_blank">Train Car #1</a> for the beginning of the story!)</i></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">I panic. I can’t shake off the visions. I can’t squirm because
there is no room. All I feel is pure fear. I put my hands to my head, squeezing
my eyes shut as I hold back a scream. But wait, what’s that? This is not my
face.</span></div>
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<sub><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: small;">I feel pockets and grooves…what is this? I follow a slimy tendril
back behind my right ear. It seems to go right into my skull. I am in shock,
and I freeze. I want to get out of here! I try to call out, but somehow cannot
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<sub><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: small;">Just then, a tapping breaks through the silence. <i>Tap, tap, tap. Tap, tap, tap</i>. What the
hell is that? The tapping goes on for what seems to be hours, and I get dizzy
and slip into unconsciousness. </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></sub><br />
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<sub><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: small;">A voice - cold, detached, clinical: "She's panicking. Push two CCs of diazepam..."</span></span></sub><br />
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<sub><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: small;">I float free of anxiety. I am confused, but not worried about the confusion. Why this distant memory of fear?</span></span></sub><br />
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<sub><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: small;">"Okay good. Heart rate's coming down, blood pressure's easing. Nobody's ever made it this far. My friends think the transplant may be stabilizing..."</span></span></sub></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="color: #ffd966;">Click here to continue on to
<a href="http://keatswrite.blogspot.com/2014/10/welcome-to-halloween-blog-train-by.html" target="_blank">Lorrie Farrelly’s train car</a> and the next part of the story!</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-style: italic;">-Christina
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Authors' Cave celebrates Halloween for the commercial spirit and there is no relation with beliefs or non-beliefs about any pagan or other traditions.</span></span></div>
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<b style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 1.15;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Blog Trains, Contests, Hunts and a Launch but what in the heck is going on over at Authors’ Cave?</span></b></div>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We all have an Authors' Cave of our own. That place where we create and our ideas come alive. Some of us may even have a few but either way we are certainly working very hard to get something very personal done! So why not take it a step further?</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For those of you who are new or if you do not quite know for sure what Authors' Cave is...here goes.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Authors' Cave is the place to take your personal work of art to the new heights I'm sure you are aware it deserves. So, in case you were curious of <b><i><span style="font-size: large;">what all is going on around here</span></i></b>, I've laid out a few examples of why visiting us in the Cave is a great idea!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You have written your book and are feeling pretty good. You have edited the dang thing to death and you have read it to just about every family member you can get your hands on. You are ready and want to see that thing presented to the world! If all is set and you are feeling like you want it up and looking awesome, then right there is step one to taking advantage of the polishing services offered at Authors' Cave, and here are some examples as to why: </span><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Facing the music.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">How compelling is your blurb? Does the cover match the reader's experience or expectations? </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Get an outside view into your grammar and punctuation...are there errors? Get feedback on your characters, plot and story engagement. Take the plunge and get some feedback. This could be a great tool to help you see things that so many of us miss in our own writing! I definitely experienced this and was thankful to the readers that had found those <i>unwanteds</i> in my story that I was completely blind to when reading it myself. And just ask my writing partner, Ginger Gelsheimer, and she will tell you the same thing. Very glad we got our beta readers to help us out!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #e69138; font-size: large;">Challenge yourself.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="color: #fff2cc;">Before you subject yourself to that first, harsh review, give your book a good run through The Grind. In return, you will get an error report that runs down the details into grammar and punctuation the human eye may miss. You will also get information on sentence structure, spelling, tenses on top of a personalized narrative by an Authors' Cave Committee Member. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="color: #fff2cc;">There is no doubt that you would benefit from the follow up that breaks down and interprets the report findings with the added benefit of one-to-one feedback of a readers suggestions. You can take the report and book feedback and are free to make the choice on any edits you may want to go with! Why not get that now before you hear it first on Amazon.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="color: #fff2cc;">These are not handed out by any means and obtaining this is a backup that many will be looking for as we spread throughout the writing community beyond where we are now.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="color: #fff2cc;">By the end of the process, these books are certified by Authors' Cave as top notch, five star, polished works of art! </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">These are not going away and are going to be a regular feature of Authors' Cave so you will want to get your Ticket to Ride!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Get the support of Authors' Cave to publish your book.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">With Authors' Cave on your side you will gain not only a "spot on the web" but the support of helping make sure your book is reaching the people out there who want to read your story!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Get more direct interaction with your followers. You have more flexibility with the outgoing connections than having to wait for them to find you first! The power in numbers that is growing for Authors' Cave members is building the community every single day. The Authors' Cave news and updates, event and enhancements are sure to be posted in full in the Authors' Cave Google Plus page and as we grow, we want you to grown with us and not miss the crucial information and available benefits to YOU!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Take advantage of Google's <i>Circle of friends!</i> You can use them for promotions and interaction and can target them to specific readers, writers, regions and more! It is just the beginning of something big so you aren't going to want to miss out on that one!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hi there! I'm so happy to be a part of this blog train with you! This festival is a great way to bring us together. For me, I often find myself behind the scenes with the work I do for the building and enhancements of Authors' Cave and so hopefully you can learn a little bit about me here. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>Creativity</i> and<i> freedom</i> are two life codes that have always been a part of my world as a drive and pure necessity. I love to create through my drawings and paintings and have been lucky enough to share them with many people in my life. My writings in particular, stem from points that run deep and the continuing Aurora Conspiracy project is a shared vision between myself and one of my best partners in life, Ginger Gelsheimer, and brings an experience one just can't get anywhere else...I'm most definitely, one lucky girl!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The mystery of who we are may not be for the purpose we <i>think</i> it is and more importantly, in the control we <i>hope</i> it is.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">How far would you be willing to go to know the truth? Could you stand up and face the knowledge before you and could you handle true change if it was presented to you?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The truth for all of us is out there and it might just be its time for discovery. We just have to be willing to believe and find strength in that challenge.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Do we believe the history that has been presented to us? What were they doing here that day and why does it concern any of us at all?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Accepted truths are just that...<i>acceptance</i>, and acceptance does not give us the answers. Historical facts can fill the gaps but the true history tells us the story behind it all. Get to know when and how it all began and finally put the pieces together.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The details of that true history have been told through the eyes of the ones on the front lines, and those very tales can be found in the prequel series.</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #f6b26b;"><u style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Quest of the Hybrid (Aurora Conspiracy Trilogy: Book One)</u><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #f6b26b;">- </span></b><span style="color: #fff2cc;">Those that are willing to dream beyond what is handed to them, deserve the chance to know the truth. It was time to share the knowledge that has been shared with us by those that were there.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #b45f06;">The first three words I would use to describe myself are -</span></b> </span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #fff2cc;">Passion. Loyalty. Expression.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sometimes a story seems too amazing to get our head around. I mean, how do you put something like that into words? The notes and endless pages of thoughts, humor and tears, along with a will that won't quit, is where I am right now. More simply put, I'm in the awkward phase of building a story that has been asked of my by many. All I can say on it, as of right now and today, is that there is definitely something on its way.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well, this goes back to Aurora Conspiracy once again and when we were wondering where all the great reviews we see and read out there actually come from! That's when my writing partner put out that first post looking for some answers. We found one. I look at Book Review Depot today as an answer to one of many questions that people were asking. Since then, the desire to help others that might want the support and help along the way grew into the vision of Authors' Cave. My thought had always been that if we could expand out of one box into something bigger, the options for resources were endless, and why not rely on the experts which include each and every one of us. For every person that benefits from the things I am doing and setting up every single day, THAT is what makes it all worth it and is my favorite thing about it all.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">So, I'm sitting here and thinking...the end of the week for me somehow never feels like the end of the week for me. Well, okay, maybe I’m a bit brain dead and shall I say, slightly tired? But let’s face it, those of us who are the creative types, and with all the writing going on here, who really has time to shut off the brain anyway?? I don’t know about you but waking up in the middle of the night with a “big idea” or coming up with answers to any sort of “creative block” are a total norm for me. Heck, I expect it and bring it on! </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">No doubt most of you share this little </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">hobby</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And here come the weekend, it's a whole new thing! A fresh start, a time to catch up and a time to get ahead. Sometimes, it’s a time to get away...but then of course, not much gets done at all and we don’t even </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">want</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to talk about how that leaves Monday!</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJYr6ZTnejINpU6C3ayACvj_Kye7nJqBhqseM5dgVS2RJ8Z2uRnUQU8GPCwpW-SvJfDg6mQOQlBQMxnVl4g6ppglPMSlaTi1yc3pT6qhzWkzsCF0Od33NbDWDwFVz3Q32w06hUaRxhcL4/s1600/minn-city.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJYr6ZTnejINpU6C3ayACvj_Kye7nJqBhqseM5dgVS2RJ8Z2uRnUQU8GPCwpW-SvJfDg6mQOQlBQMxnVl4g6ppglPMSlaTi1yc3pT6qhzWkzsCF0Od33NbDWDwFVz3Q32w06hUaRxhcL4/s1600/minn-city.jpg" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17.25px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;">It’s funny, these guys are so excited because they are actually moving here very soon. I swear, if you haven’t been out to Colorado yet you really need to get out here! It’s 77 today as I sit in the foothills and ski resorts are still open, so you can go ride the snow if you’re in the mood. They are having a blast. Hosting dinner tonight and I’m sure the stories will go on and on.</span></span></div>
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