Becoming The Minority Part 1: The First Big Question
Five years ago, I received an email from our family’s most loving couple: “We’re going to begin foster-to-adopt classes. Anyone who wants to help us raise this child is welcome, and we will take care of you when you get old.”
Read full storyGot Money Problems?
Whether you have a lot or a little money, you can always give a bit away to help or surprise someone else. Author Laina Buenostar tells us to share some “happy money” because creating a feeling of generosity and abundance by surprising a stranger with a dollar — especially when we’re struggling with money —changes our energy and opens us to unseen resources.
Read full storyGluten Made Simple
Gluten is one of the health world’s hottest topics lately and has sparked an entirely new arm of the nutrition industry. For some people, the attention of mainstream news and nutritional experts to the impact of gluten on our bodies is a relief, and for others the word, what it is, and what’s wrong with it is still a mystery. For years, no one recognized what a gluten allergy caused.
Read full story6 Ways Gratitude Makes You Gorgeous
Before products and styles and techniques, comes radiance. You’ve heard it a million times: Changing your thoughts does you a world of good. Dr. Caroline Leaf says, “75% to 95% of the illnesses that plague us today are a direct result of our thought life.”
Read full storyAvoid This Ghostwriting Writing Scam
thumb_bigstock-Horror-Silhouette-With-Knife-36724519_1024. On Jan 27, 2021, I received an email from Rosemarie Scott through the booking calendar on my website ghostwriterglobal.com.
Read full storyAnother version of the same writing scam
Lazy scammers barely changed their pitch—even the disease is the same. In Jan., I posted an article about a writing scam I narrowly escaped with the excellent help of two great banks. I thought that was the end of it until the other day when this email dug its way to my inbox. Just posting it so you can see two things:
Read full storyThird Writing Scam This Year
Looks like 2021 is my year to be a scam magnet — and your year to get ripped off if you use these ghostwriting websites. In Freelance Writing Scam — Learn From My Narrow Escape, I wrote about my first scam hit—a freelance writing con from “Rosemarie Scott” who was (poor thing!) afflicted by ataxia.
Read full story5 Climate-Saving Powerhouses Spreading Their Branches
Follow their example, upgrade your neighborhood, nurture our planet. All over the world, increasing numbers of people, organizations, and countries are working to save trees from the onslaught of human greed and destruction. Check out these five climate-saving powerhouses who use reforestation to branch out into their communities, uplift lives, and bring back climate health.
Read full storyGrow Bark, Reduce Bites
What kid doesn’t love a good tree house? Climbing up, standing above the crowd, embraced by branches and leaves — a tree house symbolizes all that is peaceful, safe, and mighty.
Read full storyLove Water? Plant Trees
As you lean against that sturdy trunk under the shade of a thriving tree, drinking a refreshing glass of water on a hot afternoon, you might want to raise your glass to your arboreal protector. That tree and its many cousins are key to the clean water you hold in your hand.
Read full storyDeforested Areas Can Regain Their Former Glory
thumb_shutterstock_Lush Landscape Arerial_368011226_1024. Trees are older than humans. They know how to survive — if we let them. When Mother Nature and humans work together, deforested areas can regain their former beauty, fertility, and life-generating harmony.
Read full storyPlanting Trees and Greening the Desert
thumb_shutterstock_Date Palm Trees_372617131_1024.jpg. Planting species that need water in an environment defined by lack of water seems like the most obvious oxymoron. But it can—and is—being done in semi-arid and arid deserts.
Read full storyPreserving Endangered Trees For Future Generations
1) Alerce Kevin Schafer Photography © kevinschafer.com, 2) Fadang Western Pacific Tropical Research. Trees are tenderness. What culture does not have an ode praising the trees that are so intimately woven into their traditions and rituals?
Read full storySoil Stabilization Through Tree Planting
“The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.” —Franklin D. Roosevelt. Shifting sands, falling coastlines, crumbling riverbanks…scary problems with a simple solution — TREES. Creating or controlling soil stabilization by planting trees can save millions of homes for people and habitats for wildlife.
Read full storyWildlife Habitat Matters
OUCH!! According to American Forests, “…a shocking one million species will become endangered in just the next 50 years. Forests are the primary habitat for wildlife around the world.” Planting trees nurtures the survival of animals, birds, insects, fish, and reptiles—not to mention the plants and fungi that need arboreal shade and moisture to survive.
Read full storyLooking for a literary agent?
Book marketing tactics to help your hard work get the serious attention it deserves. After all the dreaming, plotting, writing, and passion you put writing into your book, promoting it is key to your success.
Read full storyOutline Your Story In 15 Steps
The Meet in The Middle tool lays out your novel’s action. If you’re writing a novel, try this oft-used Hollywood/TV writing hack to plot your story’s action: The Meet in The Middle.
Read full storyPlease, Don’t Cheapen Your Book
As a ghostwriter, it breaks my heart to watch someone with a great story lower it to a plebeian level by:. Writing it themself when they aren’t a writer (or don’t have time and passion to do it well)
Read full storyGood Edits Make Your Readers Want Your Book
It takes 3 drafts to expose your manuscript’s gold. Writing a book is the best and worst of times. Your creativity is on dripping off your fingertips, your concepts are throbbing to come alive, you can see your book sitting on the bookstore shelves tantalizing readers to taste its allure.
Read full storyShade Trees Reduce Impacts From Urban Heat Islands
They don’t lie off the coast of any country; these islands lie in the center. They can be hot enough to feel tropical. They hold millions of people and services; they are the hub of myriad lifestyles. And they not only contribute to but grow from climate change. Urban heat islands.
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