What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it. – Gabriel Garcia Marquez It’s a good thing that time heals all wounds because if it didn’t I wouldn’t […]
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Two years ago, I had a nervous breakdown. Let me tell you how that happened. I had just moved to New York. I’ve always been dreaming about making that big step. You know those people from small towns
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When I began the process of examining my life, I didn’t have the intention to achieve life-mastery – I just wanted to be happy. I wanted to make the necessary changes in my life so I could live
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For more than forty years, I’ve been transformed through the writing process. It all began at the age of six when I was at a sleepaway camp. In my camp trunk, my mother had packed a big box
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“Perseverance is impossible if we don’t permit ourselves to hope.” – Dean Koontz It all started when I was homeless. There were seeds before that, those miserable nights of sleeplessness. Dreading work the next day. Pummeling myself to
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It’s easy for me to say that writing can make you a better person. I’m a writer. But I’m also convinced that the deliberate act of writing is a worthwhile endeavor for any person, no matter who or
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Do you know a person who has never faced any obstacles in life? If you can think of a name, then you probably don’t know enough of their personal story. People are torn apart between their ideas, desires,
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My writing career began at the age of ten as I was sitting in my walk-in closet writing in my journal. My mother had given me my first journal to help me cope with the loss of my
Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion. – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel I grew up wanting to become a writer but was discouraged from choosing that career path because according to those around me
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I’m writing this blog post purely out of love. This statement may sound forced, or worse, a lie. You may think that I am writing this blog post for my own website, so this post generates website traffic
“You write because you need to write, or because you hope someone will listen or because writing will mend something broken inside you or bring something back to life.” ― Joanne Harris I began writing basically as soon as
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