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Much to be grateful for this week! Quotes on Gratitude “Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.” — Aristotle “Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.” — Wayne Dyer [...]

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2011 turned out to be a light reading year. I didn’t even average a book a week, which is unheard of for me. It’s not surprising, however, when I consider that I spent the summer abroad and, once the kids started school in the fall, started treating my writing and other work as a full-time [...]

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Sorry I am a day late with the check-in this week.  A bomb went off in my day yesterday and I just couldn’t get it finished, but here goes… I don’t even know where to start with this week’s check-in.  If you read my earlier post, you know that one of the assignments for this [...]

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Oh the HORROR! The HORROR!  I just finished reading Chapter 4 of The Artist’s Way (which, if you are a regular blog reader, you know I am working through), and found out that one of the week’s assignments is TO GIVE UP READING FOR A WEEK!!! The rationale behind this exercise is sound.  Cameron says [...]

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From now on, these check-in posts will be on Wednesdays, but since I was guest blogging yesterday, I postponed this first one to today. Week 1 Theme: “Recovering a Sense of Safety.”  The idea is that artists need support, especially from ourselves.  We need to learn how to nurture our inner artist, to make her [...]

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It was a big week in the Hedlund house.  Em performed in her very first musical – 101 Dalmations.  She was amazing in her role and most importantly, had a blast!  Her enthusiasm was infectious, and we are so proud of her.  Not only that, but after the show I had just enough time to [...]

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My new blogging friend, Coleen Patrick, let me in on this amazing giveaway sponsored by YA author Beth Revis.  Beth is giving away 19 books, and the one thing you have to do to enter is blog about one book you are grateful for and why.  Awesome right? My first thought was, how on earth [...]

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Welcome to this week’s Gratitude Sunday post. Quotes on Gratitude “I am eternally grateful… for my knack of finding great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive…” — Kurt Vonnegut “I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles.” — Anais Nin “Think of all the [...]

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It’s astonishing how much the conversation about digital publishing, self-publishing and indie authors has changed in just one year.  Last year at the Rocky Mountain SCBWI conference, agents and editors said things like, “Yeah it’s out there, but it’s not a huge factor in children’s books yet.”  This year, publishing houses are racing to set [...]

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I read a book by this title before we left for Italy (Subtitle: A Sensual Guide).  After our brief visit, I can now say I concur.  The city is shaped like a fish, yes, but that is not what I mean. Like a fish, Venice glimmers in both sunlight and moonlight.  It flashes diamond light [...]

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