Throughout the time of our youngest daughter being in Japan I experienced an incredibly painful bout of sciatica, the most difficult in the recent past experiences. Normally it erupts following an extremely strenuous session of exercise.
But I have not been exercising to keep me weight down, rather
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Not a day has passed during the three weeks since posting my last blog that I have not felt guilty for failing to hold to my schedule of blogging.
It is a promise I give to myself, and a responsibility I maintain as a published writer.
The nagging feeling that has haunted me now abates as I write this post.
But what occurs when life happens and disrupts our goals and the tasks we have set our energies to?
What do we do when
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It requires skill to craft tantalizing titles, bylines, etc. that coaxes readers, even those who receive your blogs as I do those written by The Mommy Psychologist
to actually stop what we are doing and take in the blogger’s words.
That what we read leaves us thinking, and pondering the subject of their website and blogs, which for The Mommy Psychologist is the whole gambit of parenting in the 21st century, evidences grasp of an art.
Readers can be grateful when the very topic of a blogger’s discussion plunges
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Elizabeth Kolbert asks in her New Yorker article, Spoiled Rotten, “Why do kids rule the roost?”
More specifically she poses the question, “Why are American kids so spoiled?”
On spending several months living with and observing the Matsigenka tribe of the Peruvian Amazon, Carolina Izquierdo, a medical anthropologist at UCLA, grew impressed with the helpfulness and responsibility of Yanira, a six-year-old girl and member of a family within the Matsigenka tribe of 12,000.
Dr. Izquierdo witnesses Yanira’s self-less behavior, what some might call daily altruism, when she and Yanira accompanied a third family of the Matsigenka on an expedition down the Urubamba River for gathering leaves from the kapashi palm tree used to build roofs for the Matsigenka’s houses.
During the trip, Yanira, not a member of the family she and Dr. Izquierdo had accompanied, assisted others in performing daily chores and tasks without having to be asked.
Yanira made herself useful and all the while, Kolbert writes, “ … asked for nothing …”
This ability to give assistance without request, and in so doing,
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Reading Scott Pratt’s posts on his blog, The Writer’s Predicament, installments, if you will, of his journey on the road from writer with two thrillers published by Penguin Books to self-published author of three more, inspired me to revisit my anger and hurt with comment about Anne Romney made by CNN contributor and Democratic Political consultant, Hilary Rosen.
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“What you have is Mitt Romney running around the country saying: ‘Well, you know, my wife tells me that what women really care about are economic issues. And when I listen to my wife, that’s what I’m hearing.’
“Guess what,
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Contributing authors discuss their stories in the anthology, “Oil and Water and Other Things That Don’t Mix”.
Contributing authors (pictured): Zetta Brown (editor and publisher), Shonell Bacon, Lissa Brown, Maureen E. Doallas, Angela Elson, Melanie Eversley, L. B. Gschwandtner, Mary Larkin, Karen Pickell, Tynia Thomassie, Linda Lou Vegas, and Amy Wise.
Other contributors: (not pictured) Dallas Woodburn, Nicky Wheeler, Jenne R. Andrews, Nicholson Brown, Mollie Cox Bryan, Mylène Dressler, Nicole Easterwood, Kimeko Farrar, John Klawitter, Kelly Martineau, Patricia Anne McGoldrick, Ginger McKnight-Chavers, Carl Palmer, Dania Rajendra, Cherie Reich, and Jarvis Slack.
So tune in.
Other Places Where You Can Connect with Contributing Authors
Zetta Brown
Zetta Brown’s Desk
Jim and Zetta
Shonell Bacon
CGL Entertainment
Melanie Eversley
http://content.usatoday.com/community/tags/reporter.aspx?id=447
http://www.thegrio.com/author/melanie-eversley/
http://www.theroot.com/users/melanieeversley
http://www.linkedin.com/in/melanieeversley
Cherie Reich
http://cheriereich.blogspot.com
Tynia Thomassie
http://oilwaterdontmix.blogspot.com/2011/03/meet-tynia-thomassie-author-of-bop-this.html
1. Tell a little about yourself.
My name is Roxanne and I received my B.A. in English from Sierra Nevada College.
I run the blog Unintentionally Brilliant, which is mostly filled with my daily meanderings, but also features book reviews.
In “real life” I work as an administrative assistant for an environmental consulting firm in Reno, NV.
I’m mother to a four-year-old who provides a lot of humorous (and sometimes poignant) entries for the blog.
2. How did you come to reviewing fiction?
I was actually looking for something to post about one day, and I had just finished reading this fantastic book called This is Where We Live.
I decided to review it on my site.
I had so much fun doing so, I decided to make book reviews a semi-regular appearance on the blog.
I started off reviewing books that I picked up from the library, and have recently started querying publishers and authors for review copies.
3. How long have you been reviewing fiction?
I have always been the type of person to recommend books to friends. In this way, I have been a reviewer for a very long time. But in regards to the blog and writing physical reviews, I have only been reviewing fiction since September, so six months.
4. Are you a writer? If so what genre? Have you ever considered writing?
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