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Building Emotional Intelligence and Fostering Resilience in Children — Linda Lantieri

What are some of your hopes for the important children in your life? Whether they will be successful at realizing those hopes is dependent on whether we, the adults in their lives, have equipped them with the inner strength they will need to approach their day-to-day challenges as well as the big challenges life may throw them.

9Aug2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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A walk on the not-so-wild side.

Novelist Diana Wagman published an op-ed piece in last weekend’s LA Times about unlikely connections that can be made while walking in her eclectic neighborhood.

30Jul2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Anti-Chick Lit Author Rachel Resnick interviews Anti-Dick Lit Author Seth Greenland

The only tip I can give writers about writing and selling comes down to this: find your voice. That is the only thing you have that no one else can offer. By the way, this is not easy, and may take years. If there is anything else you think you might like doing, by all means do that.

10Jul2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Way to go Seth!

Seth’s novel Shining City comes out tomorrow and over the weekend both the Washington Post Book Review and the LA Times Book Review gave it high marks.

7Jul2008 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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Why is my husband on the Internet in his underpants? - Susan Kaiser Greenland

My brilliant and erudite husband has a new book coming out and it seems as if the ‘author video’ is de rigeur - I uploaded a screenshot and posted it below . . .

7Jun2008 | Susan | 0 comments | Continued
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Not so fit - Lisa Dinsmore

What keeps me going back for more? I can’t stand “losing” to a machine. I realize this is a competition only in my mind, but since it’s keeping track of my fitness “progress” I’m compelled to make it change its’ tune and am scared every time I step on the board. I guess anything that gets the heart rate up is a good thing, right?

5Jun2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Things that feel good. Janet Pierson

Maybe because for so long I lived in my head. For decades people hassled me, “You think too much!” So in this later phase, I’ve been embracing the modalities that get me out of my head. The mind/body connection is powerful and real. And once you come to understand and start to work with it, the changes are palpable.

21May2008 | Janet | 1 comment | Continued
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There is absolutely nothing interesting about me. Seth Greenland

I have been stymied in my efforts to craft a memoir. Here is my problem: there is absolutely nothing interesting about me.

9May2008 | Seth | 4 comments | Continued
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Duttons Bookstore is closing in LA - Where is a book-loving soul to go now? Tom Teicholz

In a world where the bookstore is less and less viable . . . where will we find knowledgeable guides to help us find what we are looking for or make suggestions? Where can we go to see our literary idols?

7May2008 | Tom | 2 comments | Continued
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Way to go Janet!

Rising expectations for the future of film distribution paved the way for a pair of important industry moves within the independent movie industry today. . .

15Apr2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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