Saints and ordinary people

14.06.2009

I just read the book Brida by Paulo Coelho. It’s about the quest and eventual initiation into witchhood of a 21 year old girl with a desire to learn magic. The story has a lot of religious fragments and messages - as do most of Coelho’s books - and they are nicely mixed into the [...]

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MIA? No longer

04.05.2009

Sometimes it’s hard to start a post. This is one of those posts. I figure that the best I can do is just to start writing and see how the post turns out to be.
I have been missing in action lately. I was missing for a reason, and it was a direct result from a [...]

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Watch Your Language

18.03.2009

This article is a reprint of an article by Christine Kane. I usually don’t reprint articles, but this one is right up my alley, and a great companion to How to sabotage goals with 47 simple words. Enjoy!
A few years ago, I was in a car with the promoter of one of my performances. He [...]

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Review of Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy

12.03.2009

I reviewed Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy
by Martin Lindstrom for this month’s theme A Love Affair With Books over on Joyful Jubilant Learning.
Buyology is scary and fascinating at the same time, and it all depends on the mindset with which you read it. Follow this link for the review.

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On Blogging: A Living Memoir Of My Path

11.03.2009

In his book On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft Stephen King describes, in one of his many forewords, his initial reluctance to write that particular book. As a fiction writer he felt the desire to write about writing, but he left the work unfinished for a long time questioning his motivations. He didn’t want [...]

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