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Thanks and More Thanks!
When I am unsure what to write about in my blog, I reach for the subject of gratitude, and coincidentally this is a great week to express this sentiment as we all prepare for Thanksgiving festivities....
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Inner Voices and Instincts
Why do we often walk past our instincts? Why don’t we trust what our inner voice is calling out to us? Is trusting our instincts a learned behavior over the years or is it an innate trait? When my...
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Anais Nin at 110 years old
(1903-1977) On February 22nd, one of my favorite writers would have turned 110. The last time I thought about her birthday was in 2008 when a birthday celebration was made in her honor at the Hammer...
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Handwriting As An Art Form
As an avid journal keeper, I believe the written word is a powerful mode of communication. In the writing classes I teach I emphasize the importance of personally choosing your own journal. In many...
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Living Creativity
The subject of creativity has always been of great interest to me. I suppose my interest peaked after reading Csikszentmihalyi’s, Creativity: Flow and the psychology of discovery and invention....
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Blogging : The New Journaling
For years, many friends and colleagues have called me the “journaling guru.” While I advocate for novices to journal every day, most seasoned journal keepers and/or writers tend to journal when...
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The Dalai Lama, Compassion and Giving
Saturday was His Holiness The Dalai Lama’s 78 birthday and also National Compassion Day. Recently, I reminisced about when he visited Santa Barbara back in 2009. Prior to the full-day event in UCSB’s...
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National Suicide Prevention Month _Musings & Help
Unlike when my grandmother committed suicide in 1964, there is a lot of help for those tortured souls considering taking their lives and their loved ones left behind; the bad news is that in certain...
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Year End Musings
At year-end many people do one of two things, either they write and talk about what a wonderful or horrible year they have had or they gather their New Years’ Resolutions. Historically, I do not do...
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Journals, Love Affairs and Presidents
This past weekend we took a beautiful drive to the Reagan Library in Simi Valley. Libraries are institutions held close to my heart—the place where I developed the love for the written word at a young...
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