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Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Each year for my job, I set a goal to read one book per quarter on a particular topic. This…

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A Curious Mind by Brian Grazer & Charles Fishman

I don’t remember where I picked up the recommendation for this book. It may simply have been something that popped…

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An Interview with Every Day Birds author Amy Ludwig VanDerwater . . . by my chickens

Happy Poetry Friday! Heidi is hosting at My Juicy Little Universe! Look! Spotted in the wild, EVERY DAY BIRDS at…

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Mirror Monday quote & Pentimento

“A book was like stepping through a mirror. I could go somewhere else. Each one was a door to a…

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Poetry Friday Round-Up and Big Magic

It’s Poetry Friday and you are in the right place!! The Round-Up is HERE!! As I am on the road…

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Strengths Based Leadership by Tom Rath & Barry Conchie, copyright 2008

“If you focus on people’s weaknesses, they lose confidence.” The main premise of Rath & Conchie’s best-selling book, Strengths Based…

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The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw, copyright 1998

When I got down to the last two books in my FOLP series, I couldn’t choose between them, so I…

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FOLP #7: The Zookeeper’s Wife, by Diane Ackerman, copyright 2007

In a city torn apart by war and German occupation, a nearly destroyed zoo became a “Noah’s ark” to a…

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FOLP #6: The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield, copyright 2006

Don’t you love falling into a well-crafted story, losing track of time and place, of everything but the book in…

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FOLP #5: Being Dead is No Excuse — The Official Southern Ladies Guide to Hosting the Perfect Funeral, by Gayden Metcalfe and Charlotte Hays, copyright 2005

I read this humorous, recipe-filled guide about a month before we dealt with two family deaths within 36 hours. Not…

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