Author: Karen Powers Wan
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Celebrate Your Life!
Too many of us think that the life we have created through luck, accident and choice, is not a story worthy of being celebrated and written for someone else to read. Yet, when you think about the people in your life who are no longer alive to share their story…
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Reading to Improve Writing and Life
For the last several months, I’ve been reading, writing and coaching a lot more, but sadly blogging a lot less. So, I wanted to share some insights from some of the books that I was reading. Today, I’d like to discuss the insights I received from On Writing, A Memoir of…
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Rituals for Writing and Life
Long ago, a dear friend of mine gave me a book called Wrestling with Your Angels by Janet O. Hagberg. I’m not sure if this book ever was a best-seller when it was published back in 1995, but I liked it. I might not have looked at this book today, if…
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The God of Artists
Many of us equate difficulty with virtue — and art with fooling around. Hard work is good. A terrible job must be building our moral fiber. Something — a talent for painting, say — that comes to us easily and seems compatible with us must be some sort of cheap trick,…
Mindful Earthkeeper 