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How To Write A Sonnet
Posted on January 21st, 2006 on
Valentine’s Day is coming, and you’re tired of the pre-fab cards, the stale chocolates, the tacky jewelry. You want to give your beloved something timeless, something re...

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Bringing All of Yourself to the Dating Process
Posted on January 15th, 2006 on
Bringing All of Yourself to the Dating Process Dating is challenging. Nothing is as socially taxing and emotionally draining as dating. It is the only we can put ourse...

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How to Support Your Writing Practice
Posted on January 15th, 2006 on
How to Support Your Writing Practice Earlier I wrote a blog about how to find a community of writers. Now I am going to write about how you can utilize your writer’s community...

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How to Find a Writing Community
Posted on January 15th, 2006 on
How to Find a Writing Community We all know that writing is a solitary craft but you can only go so far on your own. What I mean is that the act of writing, revising, and sendi...

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How To Improve Your Luck
Posted on January 13th, 2006 on
It’s estimated that even today, in the twenty-first century, more than 8% of Americans believe in bad luck. The Stress Management Center and Phobia Institute tells us...

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Working Your Way Out of Writer’s Block
Posted on January 13th, 2006 on
Working Your Way Out of Writer’s Block Writers are all too familiar with the highs and lows of writing. Sometimes the writing flows so easily and almost effortlessly. But most...

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How To Be A Decent Human Being
Posted on January 12th, 2006 on
Fat women. Small men. Amputees. The mentally retarded. The handicapped. People who walk funny. People who dress funny. People who are pregnant. People who talk wi...

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How To Make A Citizen’s Arrest
Posted on January 9th, 2006 on
Making a citizen’s arrest is one of those things that most people know is possible, but have no idea how to do. How exactly would you go about it, anyway? First of all, y...

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How To Choose A Tattoo Parlor
Posted on January 7th, 2006 on
You’ve decided: You’re going to get inked. You’ve spent hours researching or sketching to find the perfect design, given some thought to how to cover (or display) yo...

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How To Re-Use Old Painting Canvas
Posted on January 5th, 2006 on
Many of us have the Artist Fantasy. We see ourselves, complete with beret, easel and brush, amazing hushed crowds in our local park as we compose our masterpiece: “Sundial, Wi...

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