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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”

Stories That Comfort

This post contains affiliate links. “The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.” ~Thomas Paine “Conflict is drama, and how people deal with conflict shows you the king of people they are.” ~ Stephen Moyer One of the tenants of good storytelling is to have plenty of conflict for the characters to deal withContinue reading “Stories That Comfort”

Historical Books that Evoke Familiar Feelings

This post contains affiliate links. “Humans are not ideally set up to understand logic; they are ideally set up to understand stories. ~ Roger C. Shank, Cognitive Scientist Bio: Cheryl King is a dyslexia therapist and author of teen historical fiction Sitting on Top of the World, a 2022 Eric Hoffer YA winner, First HorizonContinue reading “Historical Books that Evoke Familiar Feelings”