Tag: 2014
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2014 End-of-year wrap-up! A Digital Yule Letter…
Blessed Solstice and Happy Yule! Family, friends, and devoted readers: I’m taking the lazy way out this year. Since I didn’t even do the lazy way last year, I’m counting this as a success. My annual letter is being printed by digital code, not in ink and paper. Lazy is also more economical and environmentally…
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Inkster Dispatch: She’s Off To the Quarter Finals!
Quick update from Inkster Here… Every time I hear the words “quarter finals” I think hockey. But today my dear darlings, it’s all about the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. Yes! Casz made it to the quarter finals. That means I went from 1 in 5,000 to 1 in 500 to now, 1 in 100. Amazing.…
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My Outlook for 2014: Fiction Farming and Beyond
I live with this voice inside my head that thinks that all these things I do – self-improvement, goal-setting, trying to have a positive outlook is a bunch of feces of the male bovine. It screams, “Poser!” “Fake!” “Failure!” It’s my internal editor, if you will. It is that voice, cultivated by social ridicule, parental…
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My 2013 Happiness Project: Year-End Round Up
Wow. Seriously, that’s all I can say about 2013 and my goals to seek happiness in my flawed human way. All in all, I think it was a success, because I learned very much about myself, my abilities, my desires, my failures, and yes, what makes me happy. I also learned more about my family…
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Happiness Project: Winter Solstice Reflection
Happy Solstice my Happiness Seekers. The Axial Tilt of the earth and the winter darkness easily allow us to look inside and examine the good and bad and lessons learned of the past year. I’m taking a few quiet moments in the wee hours of the morning to do just that. My mind turns first,…