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If a Blind Man Can Do it, What’s Your Excuse?

This post contains affiliate links. Maxwell Ivey grew up in a family of carnival owners. He started losing his vision to retinitis pigmentosa at an early age becoming legally blind by junior high school and totally blind by the time he graduated from college. He did graduate from traditional schools, achieved the rank of EagleContinue reading “If a Blind Man Can Do it, What’s Your Excuse?”

Emotional Training

This post contains affiliate links. It’s my contention, after being a public school and college instructor, that the emphasis on education in the U.S. is all about expanding student’s minds and making sure their physical bodies are strong. However, there is very little education about how to manage emotions as evidenced by bullying and otherContinue reading “Emotional Training”

Sometimes Life is Messy

This post contains affiliate links. “Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it.” ~ M. Scott Peck, M.D., The Road Less Traveled” “Tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we haveContinue reading “Sometimes Life is Messy”

Write the Book You Want to Read

This post contains affiliate links. My name is Alanna, I’m from the UK, and have just released my first novel, Abolish the Rose, published with Atmosphere Press. As a lifelong reader, long-time writer, and first-time, indie-published author, it’s been a long journey and a rollercoaster of mistakes and lessons learnt! I also love salsa dancing,Continue reading “Write the Book You Want to Read”

Where is the Love?

This post contains affiliate links. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” ~ Lao Tzu “Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for the second time in the history of the world,Continue reading “Where is the Love?”