Free Short Story: The Gift Box
Mother-to-be Tamara Cole doesn’t know what to think when her husband gives her an empty box on Christmas Eve. Except he says it’s not empty. And he’s not the only one who says so. A fantasy story about choosing what to believe. “The Gift Box” by National Bestselling author Dara Girard is free on this site from only the 17th to 24th .
Dangerous Questions
As we come to the end of the year many people start to think about failed goals and forgotten resolutions. With that come some dangerous questions. For example, recently a friend failed to reach her weight loss goal. She asked me, “Why am I such a loser?”
A sparkling change
S Martinelli & Co a company based in California and creators of the popular Martinelli’s brand of sparkling juice may not have been able to celebrate 151 years in business if not for Prohibition and the forward thinking of a 17 year old U.C Berkeley student and his professor.
The dangers of chasing perfection
Great talk on the dangers of pursuing perfection in your writing by author Kristine Kathryn Rusch (also some business mindset advice).
A little gratitude
It’s really easy to get caught up in what’s not going right. Perhaps your story has stalled on page 100 (relax that’s normal). Or you’ve not hit your goal for the year (or decade). Perhaps you’re not where you’d hoped to be in your life. Others have hit special milestones and you feel left behind, or you’ve hit a milestone and you feel inadequate.