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How To Transform Your Relationship With Money with Carrie Friedberg Podcast Episode · Making Change with your Money · February 21 · 48m

How To Transform Your Relationship With Money with Carrie Friedberg

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Because Today Feels Like Poetry A womanist urging to move the body galactic

Because Today Feels Like Poetry
A womanist urging to move the body galactic
Rebekah L. Pierce
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McDonald's and Burger King beef over CEO's viral video A video of McDonald's CEO Chris Kempczinski taste testing one of the fast food giant's new burgers got roasted online.

McDonald's and Burger King beef over CEO's viral video
A video of McDonald's CEO Chris Kempczinski taste testing one of the fast food giant's new burgers got roasted online.
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DOJ attempts to evade state ethics oversight of its attorneys Legal groups swiftly denounced the department's latest attempt to avoid oversight.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) is attempting to short-circuit state bar ethics investigations into department attorneys through a new and unexpected proposed rule. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Readers Don't Want to Be Impressed, They Want to Be Moved spend your time mining your feelings and write them

Readers Don't Want to Be Impressed, They Want to Be Moved
spend your time mining your feelings and write them
Patti M Hall
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#kindness

#writerslife
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U.S. Opens Military Action in Ecuador Against ‘Terrorist Organizations’

U.S. Opens Military Action in Ecuador Against ‘Terrorist Organizations’

U.S. Special Forces soldiers are advising and supporting Ecuadorean commandos on raids across the country against suspected drug shipment facilities and other drug-related sites.
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I Hired a Book Publicity Firm for £1,800. Here’s What Went Wrong. | Jane Friedman One author reflects on how her desire to not just outsource marketing, but to outsource even thinking about it, led to regrettable results.

This case study in hiring a book publicity firm is both laugh-out-loud funny and highly informative. Few people share these poor experiences due to shame and embarrassment.

If you're thinking of hiring *anyone* to help you with book publicity, this is a must-read.

Newsletter - BartsBooks Half-Pipe Dreams The Olympic games are an endless source of inspiration to us all.  Two percent will be motivated to hit the slopes and discover the exhilaration of intense athletics; while the other ...

Work Wit - Biz Quiz and ***
Curmudgeopedia
Devilish Definitions of Life as We Live It
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Revision as Care & Witness Returning to the "Work" with Tenderness & Care

Revision as Care & Witness
Returning to the "Work" with Tenderness & Care
#editing Rebekah Pierce
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Why Writing 500-Word Chapters Might Be the Best Way to Draft Your Novel - April Dávila Discover how 500-word chapters can jumpstart your novel draft—build momentum, tame the messy middle, and outrun perfectionism with a simple daily habit.

Why Writing 500-Word Chapters Might Be the Best Way to Draft Your Novel By April Davila
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Is Trump finally going to take accountability for lying to the American people back in June?

#TrueStory

Video: This message by Sen. @kaine.senate.gov , on why every Democrat should vote for Kaine's War Powers Resolution on Iran, sure seems to be aimed at Sen. @fetterman.senate.gov ("Iran hawk," "pro-Israel")... bluevirginia.us/2026/03/vide...

Snowed in this morning? Great read by
@bartjackson.bsky.social Holy Christ - It Works
As a journalist, Jackson has explored more than eighty countries, interviewing everyone from world leaders and Nobel laureates to monks and poets in pursuit of how people live life fully. amzn.to/449RdSW

I Signed the Rock Star. Then I Married Him — How a Professional Triumph Led Me to the Love of My Life (Exclusive) In celebration of her new book, 'Stop Trying! The Life Transforming Power of Trying Less and Doing More!' Carla Ondrasik looks back on her love story with Five for Fighting's John Ondrasik in an exclu...

Carla Ondrasik, who's married to Five For Fighting's John Ondrasik, reflects on their "ping pong match" love story
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The Playing Field Isn’t Neutral What I Had to Unlearn About Equality

The Playing Field Isn’t Neutral
What I Had to Unlearn About Equality By Danielle Davies

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DOJ's recent 6th Circuit filing misspelled:

Voters as “Votors”
Emergency as "Emeregency"
United States as "United Staes"

And, it included a non-party in the caption.

These are the people who want access to your sensitive voting records and who my team fights in court every day.

@me reading my old oneshots having forgotten my plot and character beats

"Wow it's like someone took all the tropes I like and put them into this fic"

me to me: girl you wrote this
me to me: i'm a genius

...
the oneshot: 15k of romance drabble, left unfinished

#writerslife #writesky

An Iranian Political Dissident on Khamenei’s Killing and What Comes Next From the daily newsletter: Mehdi Mahmoudian fears that military strikes by the U.S. and Israel could usher in deeper crackdowns inside Iran.

The activist and Oscar-nominated co-writer of “It Was Just an Accident” warns that Iran may be entering “an even more repressive and difficult era.” www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...

Libraries Beneath the Sand - Hidden Compass Beckoned by the siren call of Timbuktu, explorer James Michael Dorsey enters realms of historical wonder, escalating tension, and a benevolent smuggling operation.

Helping the nomads in the Sahara of Mali smuggle manuscripts from the libraries of Timbuktu for dispersal among desert tribes ahead of their destruction by Al Qaeda.
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You're Not Losing Your Faith. You're Reimagining It.

You're Not Losing Your Faith.
You're Reimagining It. By Dr. Saundra Biltz, spiritually independent, strongly influenced by my Christian faith
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The One Sentence That Gives Your Book Its Focus - Clear Sight Books A book can have a clear topic and still lack cohesiveness. A critical step in developing nonfiction is to find your core message.

The One Sentence That Gives Your Book Its Focus

Terrific advice from Karin Wiberg on the importance of a core message, how it’s used, and how you find one.
#writing #editing #publishing
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What's New This Week - Half-Pipe Dreams and Blessed are the Suckers by @bartjackson.bsky.social Lisa Hagan Books
Be the change.
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James Van Praagh (FULL EPISODE) | Where Everybody Knows Your Name YouTube video by Team Coco

James Van Praagh (FULL EPISODE) | Where Everybody Knows Your Name and Ted Danson
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Author Q&A With Rebekah L. Pierce - Books Uplift Rebekah L. Pierce is an English professor, playwright, and women’s advocate whose work centers on storytelling, truth, and transformation. A parent, veteran, and proud member of Richmond’s literary co...

Author Q&A With Rebekah L. Pierce
#books #teaching #englishliterature
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The Sunday Morning Wrap-Up Here’s the highlight reel of the past week’s posts and events.

All of this week's columns from Civil Discourse, collected for you in one place in case you missed anything. (You'll especially want to listen to Nils Lofgren's anthem for democracy, No Kings, No Hate, No Fear). open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...