Pay It Forward
The Book Is Dead! Long Live the Book!
How to Save Books and Keep Reading What You Love *Pick Two* Talk about the books you love. Not just the big famous ones. Leave a review on Amazon or BN.com or Goodreads or all “Like” the book on Amazon, or “Like” the author’s Facebook Fan page, invite your friends to “Like” Authors need people…
Read MoreSuccess Tip #2 and #3
It’s sounds so obvi (as my daughter would say) To be a successful author you have to try It’s like Pink says: You’ve gotta get up and try, and try, and try. My best friend in high school was good at everything and so I pretended I was too. It was like taking a vitamin. I…
Read MoreHey sweet heart put that bottle down
I knew plastic bottles of water were terrible for the earth but didn’t know the extent of it until I watched this video. No ore bottles for me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se12y9hSOM0 Well, sometimes a plastic bottle is hard to avoid but I’m going to try really hard to carry a water bottle that I refill. Tweet: I dont…
Read MoreThis Just In: You Can Buy Happiness
Michael Norton’s Ted talk. Give it away, a little here and there because getting more isn’t cutting it. This makes me want to sing. Just take a minute to watch it….after a shower, just before you go to bed, while you are waiting to pick up your kids at the endless school pick-up line. Watch…
Read MoreIt takes an army to save girls.
I teach health to twenty-year olds who make a lot of bad decisions. The college years are known for that kind of thing and it is mostly written off as growing pains. All those bad decisions take time though and my thinking is this. If you have the time for all those bad decisions then…
Read MoreWhy the girl effect? What about boys?
My friend’s son is in love with a Pokémon character and I totally get it. I fell in love with a cartoon girl too and I’ve been raising money for her ever since. She is the girl from the the Girleffect.org video (Charity) and I’m scared to death for her. I watch her run from…
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