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The Trauma in Our Genes The aftermath of abuse is long-lasting. After bruises heal, actual and figurative, the trauma caused continues to linger.
How One Life Can impact So Many In December of 2018, my mother’s partner and a significant father figure in my life passed away.
Typhoon's End: Week 7
My novel, A Haven Amidst Perdition, is currently on sell for $2.99 for limited time. If this isn't enough to pique your interest, then check out a four chapter sneak peek on Amazon.
My second novel has been completed and waiting in the wings for a few years. Now, it's time for it to make its grand debut. But I'm gonna need some help. I've launched my gofundme campaign, so that I can self-publish, because let's face it, traditional publishing sticks with the same, and rarely takes chances on what's different. Any help that can be given I would so appreciate and as always you have my humble thanks for all of your kind words and support. My campaign:. gofundme.com/please-help-me-publish-my-2nd-novel #secondnovel #thewickedorchard #sidraowens #self-publish #blackfiction #writers #blackwriters #femalewriters #crowdfunding
Snow fall is always a beautiful thing. It forces us to stop. All of the non-stop, super busy, go-go-go lifestyle that we are all used to grinds to a halt when it snows. The quiet, potentially hazardous descent of snowflakes is infectious in it's ability to make all be still. Those who venture out, do so at their own peril, with their departure into the snowy fray seen as a karmic insult to the atmospheric gift of calm. These opportunities come infrequently, so they are to be relished with warm drinks, cozy beds and silly time with family. I hope you all took advantage, as I did. Check me out at: https://medium.com/@sidraowens Https://SidraOwens.wordpress.com #snowdays #karma #fiction #stories #weather #writers #writing #blogs #novel
GREAT WRITERS DON’T PLAN!
In seventh grade, I was introduced to my first real writing class; where I began learning the rules to writing prose and poetry. We had to break up into groups and have our drafts read by others in the class, where they would give you their ideas, if they could focus long enough on the task at hand. I liken myself to a mountain goat standing sideways on a jagged cliff. I am quite happy standing…
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I think this is self explanatory. If you can live by these three simple guiding principles, you should have a happy life.
Tea Tree Oil: A Friend to Skin.
Tea Tree Oil: A Friend to Skin.
Home remedies have been around forever. As time has passed with advent of so many groundbreaking and society changing medical discoveries, many of those remedies have faded into the obscurity of time. With the addition of so many unnecessary ingredients to our water, produce, and meats that lead to so many highly debilitating and life shortening diseases, there has been a grand return to these…
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Tea Tree Oil: A Friend to Skin.
Tea Tree Oil: A Friend to Skin.
Home remedies have been around forever. As time has passed with advent of some many groundbreaking and society changing medical discoveries, many of those remedies have faded into the obscurity of time.
With the addition of so many unnecessary ingredients to our water, produce, and meats that lead to so many highly debilitating and life shortening diseases, there has been a grand return to these…
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Do the work and Don't Forget to Breathe!
Do the work and Don’t Forget to Breathe!
I haven’t been active on WordPress for a while. After I published my book back in April (#ahavenamdistperdition), the ball, as they say, has been slowly rolling. I often find myself briefly tangled in a small conundrum. The book is written, the book is published and now…. Ahhh, I can breathe and just create more fiction.
If only it were that simple. It isn’t. The truth is, no matter how…
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The Month of Eclipse-ia
The Month of Eclipse-ia
The solar eclipse took place on August 21st of this year, and as far as that cosmic event was concerned; it was both eventful and uneventful. I was able to view a total eclipse from the only vantage point available, since I was in Chapel Hill. Handfuls of people stood outside my work building, looking up at the sun, viewing the eclipse, with some good hearted people sharing their eclipse…
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The Way It Is, The Way It Should Be
The Way It Is, The Way It Should Be
Occasionally, when you read my blog posts and definitely, if you listen to discussions between Sedrik Cannady and myself on Comparative Reasoning, you hear many of the same themes repeated, over and over. Some might call it repetitious rhetoric or perfunctory propaganda, democratic and republican corporatists mainly, but it’s none of that. It’s all the truth. The country would be better, the…
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Got Empathy???
Empathy.
Do you have it? Do you know what it is? I’m willing to wager that maybe 80% of the American populous don’t know or care to know for that matter. Empathy is the ability to understand and share feelings. It’s the ability to step outside yourself and understand what some else I’d going through.
Humans are not born with empathy. We are naturally born selfish; it relates back to instinctual…
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Empathy. Do you have it? Do you know what it is? I'm willing to wager that maybe 80% of the American populus don't or care to know for that matter. Empathy is the ability to understand and share feelings. It's the ability to step outside yourself and understand what some else I'd going through. Humans are not born with empathy. We are naturally born selfish; it relates back to instinctual self-preservation. If you want to survive, you have to think of self. But in a society where interaction with others is needed, empathy is needed as well. So it must be taught by parents, grandparents, teachers and eventually peers. Unfortunately, our society, on this country, is not centered around aiding or understanding our fellow man. We are all suffering under the thumb of the corporate controlled Congress; who would have us all believe that the minorities, the immigrants and the terrorists are to blame for your lot in life. Meanwhile, they subjugate us with their morals, turning us into cogs in the machine rather than citizens. The key to this country is simple. Do unto others, as you would have them do unto you. The Golden rule. Empathy. It's so simple. But it will take the further crumbling of our republic into eventual revolt and bloodshed, before empathy will re-root itself in our society. How many of us will have to flee our home for unknown refugees, like so many others all around the world. A dark scenario, I know, but highly probable when you examine the road we are travelling. So... Got empathy??? #gotempathy #goldenrule #progressive #comparativereasoning #savetherepublic #weareallpeople #weareallhumans #progressivesociety
My First Review!
I know to some this may be a small milestone, but for me, this is another step in a long journey and dream that is slowly coming true.
I have spoken to the person, who left the review, and the thing that is more gratifying than a sale, is the fact that they really enjoyed my novel. They loved the characters and went along for the ride that I created.
I want to thank her for purchasing the book…
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My First Review! I know to some this may be a small milestone, but for me, this is another step in a long journey and dream that is slowly coming true. I have spoken to the person, who left the review, and the thing that is more gratifying than a sale, is the fact that they really enjoyed my novel. They loved the characters and went along for the ride that I created. I want to thank her for purchasing the book and for enjoying it so much. I also want to thank anyone, in advance, who takes their time to check it out. My novel is available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kobo and Outskirts Press. Read my short stories and blog on https://sidraowens.wordpress.com Listen to the first and second chapter of my novel on my YouTube channel, The Wicked Orchard. #ahavenamidstperdition #thewickedorchard #newnovel #newauthor #african-americanauthor #self-published #writers #fiction #stories #literaryfiction #womensfiction