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62Gwendolyn Brooks
I met Gwendolyn Brooks briefly, when I was about 14 years old. I grew up in Evanston, Illinois, and I went to Evanston Township High School, where we had a very active and thriving creative writing club. Our club went on a field trip into Chicago where we attended a "write about artwork" workshop at the art museum, and then Brooks did a reading and spoke to us about what it is to be a writer (though not necessarily an author).
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74The Gift of Fear Book Review
The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker has been given to me by well-meaning friends more than once, but I finally sat down to read it this month. This is not an easy book to read-- at several points, I had to...
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73Online Tools for Losing Weight
So, you want to lose weight. You're thinking about joining a gym and all the monthly fees, or the weekly meeting cost of Weight Watchers, and you think "I can do this without intervention," and maybe you're...
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82Trichotillomania: Things That Help
Trichotillomania is a compulsion to pull your hair or pick your skin, sometimes with the added complication of eating the pulled hair. Although the actual health dangers are few, except for those who eat...
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63Inferno Kindle Sample
The sample for Inferno by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle (Kindle price: $9.32) pulls you into the story right away, and only leaves off after the story has motion. Like The Book Thief and The Graveyard...
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72Removing Wax from your Eyebrows
You're at home, the Sally Beauty Supply wax strips or jar in your hand. With trepidation, you smear the sticky depilatory onto your eyelid, between your eyebrows, under your nose, on your chin.... wherever...
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61Last Minute Gifts That Don't Require Shipping
As I write this, it is Christmas Eve, at 8:23 in the morning. If I leave my home today, I can face two kinds of traffic-- holiday revelers heading out to family home to wake up Christmas morning in a place...
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60How to Write and Illustrate a Scientific Paper Kindle Sample
I thought I would be disappointed in this sample, because it's an introductory chapter followed by about 2 pages of Chapter 2. However, I was pleasantly surprised by the easy writing style and a challenging...
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55How to Be a Comedy Writer Kindle Sample
The sample for How to Be a Comedy Writer by Mark Blake is disappointing to say the least. It's almost entirely table of contents and introduction, followed by about 2 pages worth of text which ends on "see...
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68How to tell if an egg has gone bad
I love the easy questions. To tell if an egg is bad, follow these steps: Get out a bowl or pot and fill it with water. You need 4-6 inches of water, but you do not need much width in the pan. You're not...
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