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My Beach House – Power House Creatives Contest

As we head into the New Year, it's time to think about new beginnings and shake the dust off of our lives But it's not just a new year It's a new decade It is like a blank notebook to fill with dreams of what might be...

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Let’s talk: Can our society be happy again?

Is it just me, or has the divisive conversational climate of politics and news in recent years had a terrible effect on our general happiness I feel that we are living with more fear and angst, and that many people are...

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Catch-up day, writing day, it’s-not-too-late-to-enter day

How I love Saturday It's that special day when I think about all the things I've wished I could get to during the week, and start checking them off I created a new "Online Fiction and Resources for Writers"...

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Honoring the Past, Embracing the Future: New Year’s Day 1/1/19

The idea for this post came to me today as I was boxing up my Christmas ornaments It's always a little melancholy putting them away because it means the holidays are over But it also got me thinking about how we are...

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WordPress and steempress test post: does lightning strike twice?

Something bizarre happened yesterday In general, I write my substantive posts from WordPress, and they post to Steemit via the Steempress plugin For some reason, my 50-word short story posted to Steemit five times I...

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Keeping the Faith: Just Keep Swimming

Now and then, the best inspiration comes from a children's book or movie In this case, I turn to the 2003 movie, Finding Nemo, when Dory famously tells Nemo to "just keep swimming" How appropriate for us...

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SteemFest retrospective: A whole bunch of shout-outs

I know there are a lot of summary and retrospective posts that have come out from the SteemFest3 attendees Perhaps collectively they will create a kind of mosaic of events and experiences that provide a sense of what it...

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PhotoFest from SteemFest3

Okay, there's no time to write blog posts here at SteemFest3! They have us going from morning until late into the evening (aka after midnight) Yesterday some of my room mates didn't get home until 4 am I was the early...

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Anticipation in Amsterdam

That either sounds like the name of a trashy novel or a bad garage band I don't know which I'm sitting at a Starbucks in Amsterdam after a lovely all-night Delta flight My strategy for Europe travel works like a...

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The Road to Steemfest, true confessions, breaking the ice, and other silliness

I am really looking forward to getting on the plane for Steemfest in two days Why Because my life is way too busy at the moment and I can't breathe That said, I should have been preparing for this all along, reading all...

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