This is one of those books that stick with you forever. Even if you only read it once. I don’t remember now what made me decide to read this book, but I do know I was in my early 30s when I finally bought a copy of To Kill A Mockingbird and read it for the first…
Research is more important to your success than you may realize. Research is something most of us probably started doing when we were still in elementary school. I know my own experience with it started when I was in 5th grade and needed to write a report on Mexico. We were told it was OK to…
The subtitle of Poemcrazy (“Freeing Your Life with Words”) is an excellent way to describe the main message in these pages. Fun. Random. Surprising. Inspirational. These are just a few of the words I’d use if I had to describe this book to someone. Less than a year after the paperback edition of Poemcrazy was published (in…
Inspiration for poems can come from anywhere. Most of us were probably first introduced to poetry when we were still very young — through nursery rhymes. But by the time we entered middle school — at least for most of us — poetry was not something that was even on our radar. However, around 30…
The subtitle of this book — ‘Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results’ — says it all. I had heard good things about this book long before I had a chance to read it. But to be honest, I wasn’t expecting it to be much better than any other self-help book I’d read. But because every chapter in…
Engaging with audiences is easier when you include stories in your messages. Everyone loves a good story – both adults AND kids. But knowing how to TELL a good story is a skill that doesn’t come naturally to everyone. However, storytelling is a skill that can be easily learned. Why Is Storytelling Important? In a…
This book is an excellent introduction to what “walking the Camino” is all about. I decided to order this book in 2020 – a few months after I knew I wouldn’t be able to take advantage of the offer I’d received to go on a Camino tour with Spanish Steps – a travel company specializing…
Journaling can improve your writing … but it does SO MUCH more than that! The practice of writing down your thoughts in a journal each day – physically, not digitally – is a very powerful thing. For one, it improves your writing. Not only does it get you into the habit of transferring your thoughts…
This keyboard case holds not only the keyboard, but also my Lenovo tablet.I LOVE being able to use a keyboard when working on my tablet! A few months ago, I realized that my new Lenovo tablet [a Lenovo Tab P11 (2nd Gen)] would be a lot more useful if I had a keyboard to go…
Working with clay can be kind of messy … but writing can be messy, too. Creating a bowl on a potter’s wheel or a piece of sculpture with modeling clay is very different from combining groups of words into sentences that (eventually) form a story or an article. But there are a lot of similarities,…