Interesting info...teachers, yikes!!

Smile...How To Be Happy At Work [Infographic]

Here's a blog to enjoy!

Literary Jewels

Found this on twitter! I think I will be utilizing some of this information! What do you think?

http://www.teachhub.com/

Me on facebook! I would love your visit!!  Please Click on this link.

This is very helpful infomation about the book sales of many authors....I personally think it doesn't matter if you sell tens of thousands, just keep your dream in your heart and get that book out there! Dee

How Many Copies Do Novels Actually Sell? http://t.co/WeJTxaUW via @bubblecow -- Joanna Penn (@thecreativepenn)

This information can be useful if you are in the process of writing a book, buy not sure how to get started!

How to go from blogged book to published book in 6 months or less! Step #1... Start blogging! http://t.co/iNoWBnxW -- Julie Isaac, Author (@WritingSpirit)

Congratulations!! Hard work paid off!

Indie Author Inks Seven-Figure Deal With Penguin After Shooting up E-Book Best-Seller List | Digital Book World

Yay!! Found this on Twitter! I thought I was putting too much thought into the font and size that I want to use in my first book...but, not so! Read the article.

http://www.thebookdesigner.com/

October 3, 2011 Health, Fun & Well-Being Newsletter – Topic of the Week: Your Sweet Tooth Can Absolutely Compromise Your Health and Well-Being!!! | carolinaaramburo.com | carolinaaramburo.com

Great article by Arielle Ford

Awakening Your Creative Genius - The Huffington Post

Interesting title for this article! I haven't read through it yet, but anything to beat the big "P" has to be useful.

http://inspired2motiv8.blogspot.com/2012/05/how-to-defeat-procrastination-in-9-easy.html?m=1

Hummmm

#WritingTips We all have crazy dreams. Try writing your next dream down & work on making it make sense. Crazy dreams make colorful stories. -- Brendan Dalley, MBA (@brendandalley)

#SpeakingTips There is a direct correlation between how well you communicate & how satisfied you are with life. Now you know- DO SOMETHING! -- Brendan Dalley, MBA (@brendandalley)

Improving Your Memory

Improving Your Memory

This is a helpful and fun read.  You might be like me and have trouble remembering certain things...especially many peoples names!  If a name isn't pleasantly unique to me, then, oh boy, chances are I won't remember it!

“The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.” -- Toni Morrison (@MsToniMorrison)

Powerful quotes from a Gem...

"All important things are hard." Toni Morrison -- Toni Morrison (@MsToniMorrison)

A poem: "The Best Daughter"

Here is a poem that I have written.  It is kind of a rough draft because I might have to revise it here or there later.  I am planning on this poem to be the basis of a future book.  I had entered into a creative writing contest at California State University Bakersfield, but apparently, I did not win one of three prizes.  Well, here it goes!


 "The Best Daughter"

 I would have been the best daughter.

If you would have known me.

Did you care to know me?

I resembled and loved you.

We had the same hands, feet and rump.

As a baby, did you hear my heart thump?                                                                                                                                        

I would have been the best daughter.

I would have tended to you after a long work day.

Brought you coffee and tea to get you to notice me.

I would have brought your pipe and offered you a light.

Read your favorite book with you; and

Rushed home from school to talk with you.

A life problem came one day,

A friend said, “Ask your dad

for the solution without delay.”

Startled and afraid,

I asked, “Who?”

I would have been the best daughter.

Did you think of me?

There were solemn Sundays, birthdays and holidays.

I thought of you, but not too much,

Just enough to feel my heart clutch.

You were so handsome and mild.

The pictures you sent were showed off with smiles.

I would have been the best daughter.

If we would have talked more; you would have known.

I would have been proud to call you my own.

Two people too proud.

Years passed without communication.

Hearts somewhat connected, acts of rejection.

I would have been the best daughter.

Daddy, you could have believed.

We should have reached out and

forgotten about our doubts.

I would have been the best daughter.

But, I sat there weeping,

deeply from the gut, that

felt like a never ending rut.

Hollow sorrow.

So much to say,

Unspoken words,

But, I will see you one day.

Now, I remember you.

Please remember me.

The best daughter.

  

For the Record

I am new to this blogger business, but I intend to have lots of fun writing about things that interest others and myself.  And, I hope to make lots of new friends and cultivate deeper relationships with old ones.  Of course, I realize that I am so new to this;  that I have not completely designed the site as of yet, but be patient please.   The fun is going to come with me exploring and learning the ropes...Thanks to any and everyone who has visited and I hope to be a source of positive and inspirational information to those who are seeking.
Here we go!!
Dee