Guest Bloggers WANTED – “Team Charisma World People”
‘Bout time I gave some others a shot. So I’m inviting select guest bloggers to write something for me. Well I say write, I’m actually more interested in encouraging the minorities – artists, photogra…
View ArticleOn the Fifteenth Day of December . . .
Today was one of those days. It wasn’t the worst day I have ever had by far, nor was it the best day, either. It just seemed like at every turn, I kept running into minor setbacks and obstacles. By…
View ArticleAllison McGevna of Inside Allie's World On Creating A Look-Great Holiday...
Welcome Allison McGevna, 31, of Inside Allie’s World, who is joining us as our resident curvy-girl style blogger. She was featured in the December/January issue of PEOPLE StyleWatch and contributes he…
View ArticleKinship With A Homeless Veteran – by Mia Bentley
“Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?” – Eleanor Roosevelt …
View ArticleSurprise! Shannon’s Return to Blogging
Surprise! Shannon’s Return to Blogging Shannon is back. After 32 days, I can no longer stay away. Idling is not my thing. But I collected my thoughts and worries and concerns, and I found a new road …
View ArticleAunt Minnie Was Kindness Personified – by Jackie Phillips
She had white hair, a round wrinkled face, kind blue eyes and a big toothless grin. I was a skinny, shy kid with white hair, an angled face and inquisitive gray eyes and a big gap toothed smile. We we…
View ArticleSpotlight and Giveaway with Karen-Anne Stewart
FeelKaren-Anne Stewart Genre: New Adult Paranormal RomanceSuspense /Contemporary Date of Publication: December 15th, 2014. ISBN: 978-1502757746 Number of pages: 276Word Count: 94,000 Book Descript…
View ArticleOn the Sixteenth Day of December . . .
On this sixteenth day of December, I find myself struggling to find the goodness and light in the wake of the attack on a school in Pakistan that left at least 146 people, mostly children, dead. This…
View ArticleTHE SMILE – by John Tuite
The man was her uncle and he told her story… It was an unpleasant, tricky morning some years ago. I remember I wasn’t rising to it. I’d had an early, irksome conversation at home, followed by fractiou…
View Article36 Things I Know After 36 Years of Marriage – by Winifred M. Reilly
This week, my husband and I will celebrate our 36th anniversary. Some years we’ve gotten dressed-up and gone out to dinner. Other years we’ve simply marked the day with a kiss. Once, we were both sick…
View ArticleGuest Blog & Giveaway: Lisa Kessler on Those Tortured Heroes & win Moonlight
A big welcome to Lisa Kessler who is here to telling us about Those Tortured Heroes and celebrating the release of Blood Moon, The Moon Series (published on 12/15/2014 by Entangled Publishing). Want t…
View ArticleGuest post: Writing History by William S Shepard
Today’s guest blog post, on the topic of writing a family biography, is brought to you by non-fiction writer (of memoir and wine) and diplomatic mystery novelist William S Shepard. Writing History A t…
View ArticleGuest Blog: Rachel Brimble
Christmas Movies & Books…yes, please! Well, Christmas is here again – where does the time go?? Every year I think I will be ready and then the festive season seems to arrive without warning…if you...
View ArticleOn the Seventeenth of December . . .
The hour is late, as is this post, but thankfully, love and kindness were right on time today. I returned home from work after a twelve-hour day, and the long day could not have been for a better rea…
View ArticleA Random Act of Kindness – by Belle Beckford
At one time in my life I was a military wife. That meant spending quite of bit of time without my husband, the military member, as he tended to travel frequently away from home. Where we lived on base…
View ArticleSweet Little Somethings – by The Reluctant Baptist
Mine is a story of missed opportunity and redemption. It began one cold winter evening as I stood in the grocery checkout line behind a rather ragamuffin couple. I watched their items move along th…
View ArticleUnexpected Kindness – by Phylor
Most times I waited for the train, she was there, whatever time of day it was. White wires to white player = apple world. She never arrived without these wires, nor a method to become de-tangled. We n…
View ArticleOpenGov Voices: How California's putting big local government data online
Marc Joffe, founder of Public Sector Credit Solutions. Image credit: Public Sector Credit Solutions Many state governments in the U.S. collect and report local government data. These data compilation…
View ArticleGuest Post: Eric R. Asher
Vesik, Book 4 An ocean of darkness lives in the journal of Philip Pinkerton. Ancient things with no place in our world are rising from the Abyss. Ezekiel, the arrogant, mad god has called us into batt…
View ArticleWhy Antarctica? Guest Blog with Ann Gimpel
I just got back from my second trip to the southern oceans this year, and most people who know me have asked why I wanted to go in the first place, and why I wanted to go back. The first question is e…
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