• Book Review

    Reasons Not to Worry: A Self-Help Book to Start 2024 On a Good Note

    Tweet Brigid Delaney’s book *Reasons Not to Worry: How to Be Stoic in Chaotic Times, hit all the right notes for me. It was an easy read. It offered personal gut-wrenching stories of the author’s experience. It broke down the how tos in easily digestible nuggets that stay and helped me get through particularly debilitating flares with long-Covid. First of all, if you are not familiar with stoicism, it is a way of being that was created by philosophers a very long time ago like BC times. Seneda, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius are three stoics from the late period of Stoicism.…

  • Giveaway - Rejection

    How to Handle Criticism and Rejection

    Tweet I doubt any writer is immune to the vulnerability that comes with handing over your work to someone else. It’s a brutal business this writing thing. But it’s part of what you sign up for when you decide to be a writer. Recently, my rejections have dug deep into my heartstrings only because I’m getting closer to work that means a lot to me. I’m no stranger to getting rejected for jobs, articles and essays. In fact, my email inbox is flooded with them. But when you work on something that not only takes up a lot of time (time…