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What is Your Web of Life?
What is Your Web of Life?
You can’t escape the web of life Maintaining and protecting your web results in a bounty for all. Photo by Cherie Ude. Previously published in Interpretative Guide to Western Northwest Weather Forecasts. (See Natural Resources, the environment and eco-systems) If you could separate yourself, you’d destroy your connections to life itself. The Web of Life confirms that, contrary to what we might…
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Share the Joys of Water! Conserve, Don't Hoard!
Share the Joys of Water! Conserve, Don’t Hoard!
The joys of water fill my life! A golden eagle has a bath, something birds need to get rid of parasites, to stay healthy. Photo by Marian Blue Hot showers after a sweaty day. Swimming. Cleaning and washing dishes. Tossing clothes into a washer. Flushing waste away. Irrigating a garden of brilliant flowers or fresh veggies. And, of course, those long, refreshing drinks of clear and cold water…
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INVADERS!
Invaders! Invasive species threaten habitat and human health. Whose fault is it? Who can fix the problem? The word itself–”invasive”–blames unwanted behavior on the invaders themselves. Vikings storming through Britain; Imperialists denying the rights of native citizens; Nazis invading, well, almost everyone: these suggest willful and aggressive purpose. But when it comes to the environment, the…
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Plant a Tree
“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.”― Chinese proverbBig Leaf Maple-Photo by Marian Blue To plant a tree in the 21st century is to think in more complicated ways than in the past if you consider today’s conservation needs. Providing for wildlife and planting for future climate changes are considerations, along with concerns people have always had: beauty,…
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The Nature of Pets
The Nature of Pets
WE LOVE OUR PETS! Haiku and RhododendronPhoto by Marian Blue But… is it in the nature of pets to love the environment? Are we damaging nature with our pet love–fish to cats, birds to dogs, snakes to rats? If we answer these questions honestly, we have to admit that pet care often equals environmental damage. Here we’ll pause to acknowledge that pets provide many benefits. It’s the nature of pets…
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Saving the Natural World
Saving the Natural World
Saving the Natural World Feather by FeatherPhoto by Cherie Ude For those of us who love wild and natural places, saving the natural world for future generations, both human and wildlife, takes priority. Obviously saving the natural world isn’t a one-person job. Yet each of us plays a significant role by sharing our love of the natural world with people, showing them ways to enjoy and interact…
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Snags for Good Health
Snags for Good Health
An old forest snag: Something to Cherish? Photo by Marian Blue Snags abound in healthy forests. Hazardous. Dead. Ugly. And Something to Cherish? Today, many landowners cherish snags and, if none are present, create them by topping or even girdling trees. Why would you want to keep this possibly dangerous eyesore on your property, much less create one? Wildlife Habitat According to…
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A World At Risk--Living in Harmony with Wildlife
A World At Risk–Living in Harmony with Wildlife
Imagine this as your front yard. Photo by Marian Blue Imagine walking out your front door, perhaps to go to work or shopping, only to discover that all roads, sidewalks, and paths have vanished. Trees are growing where roadways should be, where you were cursing chuckholes the day before. Creeks are chuckling along, gleefully replacing bridges and culverts. Bogs and rocks and fallen trees have…
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Creating Book Collections–Five Steps to Success
Creating Book Collections–Five Steps to Success
Compiling your short stories, poems, or essays into a compelling book collection involves alchemy.
You’ve written, revised and published several dozen short stories or poems. Editors like your work. Friends suggest a collection. You realize that if you collect your work in one book, it comes to almost 400 pages.
You compile your book and receive, at best, a lukewarm reception to the collection.…
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Starting Your Book: Three Blocks to Smash
Starting Your Book: Three Blocks to Smash
TMI! Don’t let too much advice about book openings stun you into silence! Starting your book today smashes the blocks!
The idea of starting your book is often held at bay by three simple blocks. Avoid them!
Panic.
Don’t Let panic keep you from starting your book!
This means
don’t look up 5 million Google listings on how to create a famous opening line
don’t chew your fingernails over…
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Publishing Choices: Going Indie or Traditional?
Publishing Choices: Going Indie or Traditional?
A Google search of “How to Self-Publish a book” produces about 282 million results.
The Publishing Swamp
No, they don’t all agree. Nonetheless, the amount of information available provides a clue as to how many people are considering self-publishing. This feels a little like landing in a swamp with a large gator.
Rather than starting your search with 282 million suggestions, start with yourself.…
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Why Write?
Finding Your Inner-Writer Self
Not long ago, I received a Facebook message from a stranger. She asked if I had authored an article in the 1990s about cruising aboard a Montgomery 17’ sailboat and, if so, would I send a copy.
Wow!
That Cruising World magazine article predated the “everything-you-ever-think-is-online” days. Who remembered a magazine article from a quarter of a century earlier, an…
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B-Flat Overtures
Short Story originally published in Eureka Literary Magazine, Winter 2002, 10th Anniversary Issue and referenced in Blog Post “Why Write?”
Sammy leaned over his desk, his long hair flopping continually over his thick glasses as he conducted the music flowing from Hinckle’s new symphonic composition. The cellos began to swell into the music, then the violins plucked their way into the rhythms…
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Writing Genres! Feeling confined?
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Cover for new science fiction novel up for February cover contest https://weloveindiebooks.com/current-book-cover-contest-entries/
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Novel will tell you how stories about elves and dwarfs came to be...
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