The Novel in the Journalists Drawer

This post contains affiliate links. Fran Hawthorne, a New Yorker, is a retired journalist with 8 non-fiction books and articles to her credit. She’s won awards for her nonfiction writing, however, what she wanted ever since she was four years old, was to be a novelist. She has fulfilled that dream with two novels publishedContinue reading “The Novel in the Journalists Drawer”

The Human Story: Walking Each Other Home

This post contains affiliate links. I grew up in 3 countries, am artistic, do energy work and am into spirituality, A Course In Miracles, and have studied social and cultural anthropology. I’m the host of the The Holy Spirit’s Curriculum Of Joy Podcast. In addition to that, I work in education and am open minded.Continue reading “The Human Story: Walking Each Other Home”

Stories to Round Out Your Summer (or Winter)

This post contains affiliate links. “Instead of condemning people, let’s try to understand them. Let’s try to figure out why they do what they do. That’s a lot more profitable and intriguing than criticism; and it breeds sympathy, tolerance and kindness. “To know all is to forgive all.”  ~ Dale Carnegie, How To Win FriendsContinue reading “Stories to Round Out Your Summer (or Winter)”

The Peace Corps, Chocolate, and Books

This post contains affiliate links. Christine Herbert is a part-time writer, part-time bodyworker, and full-time space cadet currently living in the Pacific Northwest. A dyed-in-the-wool introvert, she occasionally surprises everyone—especially herself—by chucking it all and living an adventurous life of service overseas, once as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in Zambia and later as aContinue reading “The Peace Corps, Chocolate, and Books”

The Hands of Time

This post contains affiliate links. “Tough times never last, but tough people do.” ~ Robert H. Schuller “Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.” ~ Coco Chanel “Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.” ~ Thomas Hardy Time is a human construct.Continue reading “The Hands of Time”