Tag: illusion
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Of Mom-Preneurs, The American Dream, and ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ …
The host of a blog addressing the experience of parenting recently shared with me that she had recognized what might be a trend in how women solved the dilemma of how to continue working but in a way that leaves us feeling that our work has not intruded upon our desires, fervent as those to…
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Of Mothers, Daughters and Cracking Open the Pomegranate…
A fruit of both the body and the soul, the spirit and heart, the pomegranate casts a net long and wide, deep and with breadth stretching into those areas of life perceived not with the eyes but with inner knowing that comes with age and experience. The relationship between mothers and daughters is as old…
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Of Conundrums, Pockets of Time, and Water to Down Our Bread…
I once had a client who said, “We [humans] consist of but pockets of time. Spend time on things that don’t matter-waste time–and you throw away yourself.” As with life and pockets of time, humans also consist of a conglomeration of relationships, none so important as the one we hold with ourselves. Despite all, we…
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Of Revelation, Illusions and the Parallel Processes of Writing and Discovery…
Revelation plays an important role in constructing and/or assembling the middle section of a novel. Revelation also encompasses the uncovering of truth of what has always stood present, but remained hidden by strong held illusions and beliefs. Stories and novels stand upon revelations, ones that sustain the cause-and-effect events that comprise, most particularly, the plot…
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Uncertainty, Destination, and the Need to Know…
We are ruled by uncertainty. The need to know shapes our motives, what we ask for, desire, fear and seek to claim. And so it is in writing that we encounter a somewhat safe haven. The writer has a general idea of the destination of her or his story if not, how it shall end.…
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For Richer, For Poorer II: Emotions, Money, and Marriage in America
For Richer, For Poorer II Emotions, Money and Marriage in America Marriage Penalty crop An award-winning, nationally-syndicated personal finance columnist, Liz Pulliam Weston writes: * The median net worth of married-couple households in the latest Census Bureau wealth study, conducted in 2002, was $101,975. For single men, median wealth was $23,700. For single women, $20,217.…
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For Richer, For Poorer II: Emotions, Money, and Marriage in America
For Richer, For Poorer II Emotions, Money and Marriage in America Marriage Penalty crop An award-winning, nationally-syndicated personal finance columnist, Liz Pulliam Weston writes: * The median net worth of married-couple households in the latest Census Bureau wealth study, conducted in 2002, was $101,975. For single men, median wealth was $23,700. For single women, $20,217.…