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  1. Reviewing Books Without Prejudice: Can an Honest Review Turn on You?

    5/18/12 8:36am by TiaBach
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    Notebook and pen by Derya

    Homosexuality. It’s my generation’s civil rights movement, and it affected my life recently in an interesting way. I review books for World Literary Café as part of their WLC Review Team. Every month, I choose four books from their selections and receive two to review. Since I pride myself on reading all genres and styles, I choose books based only on the covers. Could I go look up summaries? Sure. But I wanted to experiment with picking books solely based on my reaction to cover art.  Read more >

  2. As You Grow, So Do My Wishes for You

    5/15/12 5:45am by TiaBach
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    Today is my oldest daughter's 12th birthday. Every day I pray for my children. For her birthday, I wanted to reprint the wishes I posted last year... with a few additions.  Read more >

  3. You ARE Mom Enough: Parenting Your Way is the ONLY Way

    5/12/12 7:54pm by TiaBach
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    The best type of mom you can be is YOUR type of mom.This Mother's Day, we should reflect on the importance of mothers. A mother is a woman responsible for the welfare of a child. There are no tiers of mothers. It doesn't matter whether you gave birth, adopted, had a child through a surrogate, and so on.  Read more >

  4. 5 Ws of My Writing

    5/11/12 6:46am by TiaBach
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    Writing is my passion. It always has been. I can't pinpoint an exact moment when I knew it. I just knew. One of my daughters came home with an assignment to analyze a subject with the 5 Ws. My brain started firing. How would I analyze my writing with that criteria?5 Ws of My Writing  Read more >

  5. 5 Movie Types that Influence my Blog Writing

    5/7/12 6:12pm by TiaBach
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    I love movies, second only to books as a choice for entertainment, so I was thrilled to see this theme day. Instead of picking five specific movies, I've picked five movie themes.  Read more >

  6. 5 Reasons I Try Things that Terrify Me

    5/3/12 2:41pm by TiaBach
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    We all have fears. Some of them are legitimate and founded; those are ones we have tried and have reasoning to dislike or avoid. Others are based on assumptions or influence. Those are the ones I like to tackle. I don't want unwarranted fear holding me back. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.” You must do the thing you think you cannot do.  Read more >

  7. There's a Poet Within Each of Us

    5/2/12 11:57am by TiaBach
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    Poetry terrifies me. It's not for the faint of heart or soul. The scariest part of last year's Blogathon was the Haiku day. Instead of facing my fear, I wimped out and asked Mom, a multi-published poet, to write it.  Read more >

  8. Mauling Malpropism: Saying What You Mean

    4/20/12 7:30am by TiaBach
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    I'll admit, I was familiar with this concept but not with this term until I was searching for interesting quotes one day. Yogi Berra, an accomplished baseball player and manager, is known for his humongous misuse of words. (okay, humorous)  Read more >

  9. Kick it or Kiss It: Finding The best Way to Deal with Situations

    4/19/12 1:53pm by TiaBach
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    "It's all about ass, isn't it? You either kick it... or you lick it."This is one of my husband's favorite movie quotes. It's from Fat Man and Little Boy, starring Paul Newman.I haven't seen this particular movie, but I love Paul Newman and will watch anything with him in it. He always struck me as a great guy, who managed a lot of charity work and a long-lived marriage even as Hollywood royalty.  Read more >

  10. Bird by Bird: Inspiring My Creativity

    4/15/12 7:41am by TiaBach
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    My oldest daughter owes Anne Lamott big time! Thanks to her Operating Instructions: A Journal of my Son’s First Year, I survived my first year as a mother. Another new mom recommended the book to me. I clearly had been living under a rock, because I never heard of Lamott prior to this.  Read more >

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