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Is my household the only one in America that takes the Chinese food out of the container and eats it from plates? I don’t know about you, but one of the hallmarks of eating Chinese in my house is sharing the different items with other family members. That being so, eating out of the containers [...]
Not today, but hopefully this week, the new and improved version of the Eagle Peak Press website will become available at a browser near you. On the site will be an Arts Showcase for SGI members to post prose, poetry, visual art and music. But I will let the site speak for itself. Check the [...]
I promised an update on priorities within a week in the recent post, Making decisions. So here it is: I am focusing on writing a sci-fi book next. The story will be about the withering away of the military industrial complex and its replacement by the multinational Entertainment-Food-Cosmetic Consortium–sponsors of extreme reality TV. Which will [...]
Thirty-one years ago, among other reasons, I began practicing Buddhism to make better decisions. Actually, not just to make better ones but to decide period. I had no difficulty seeing alternatives but real difficulty choosing among them. Over the years I have become better at it but from time to time it still comes back to [...]
This next installment on the topic of writing continues with the how part of writing that book. Missed the earlier parts? See part 2 here or go all the way back to part 1. The how relates in part with the what and the why. If you expect to make a living at this, you better [...]
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A couple weeks ago I said that “Yes, you can write and publish a book.” To follow up on that topic, beyond will and determination I mentioned that some research will be required. Like anything else, you get out of writing what you put into it. Little effort produces little result. Ask yourself what and [...]
Not to steal too much of Barack Obama’s verbage here, but translating we to you or I will fairly adjust his message to the self-empowerment topic that is so popular among writers of a certain type inspirational book. It also correlates well with the self-empowerment that I find through the practice of Buddhism. Regardless of whether you [...]
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I liked Talian, but I think I like this one better. Still have to get a couple bugs out, but it is mostly there. The poll, which I had on the left in Talian is now on the right–as you can see. So do let me know what you think. Also, for those of you [...]
Continue reading about Still Changing the View–of the Views from Eagle Peak
OK, very punny. Anyway, because changing the template of a WordPress blog is WAY easier than migrating a website to a new version of Joomla (and adding lots of new content), changes are coming first here. I am still working on it live as I post this, so there will still be a few more updates in the [...]
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