“It is Difficlt to Kill Your Darlings!”

Revisions I am in the mist revision of my original What Color Is Your Brain?® book, which made me think about my “Darlings”. In one of my earliest writing classes at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival, I learned a critical writing rule, which often is difficult to practice. That rule was Willam Faulkner’s quote: “In…

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Is Your Brain “Pot-bound”?

How Does Your Brain Feel? Do you every feel like your brain is bound up and your thoughts are going in circles? I thought about this metaphor, today while I was transplanting 3 of my Christmas Cactus plants that I have had for 20 years. Encircling Your Brain? When I took the plants out of…

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Word Wednesday – “Fecundity”

“Fecundity” is my word for WordWednesday. Noun: Fertility, ability to produce copious ideas, offspring, or new growth. Usage: Our neighbor’s 4-H rabbit project was a perfect example of “Fecundity”. Pronunciation – feˈkəndədē,fiˈkəndədē My Creative Blue Brain is always in a “Fecundity” mode!      My family business memoir No Bunk, Just BS (Business Sense) is available on Amazon.com.…

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