How Beloved Writer, Thoreau, Carved His Words Into the American Psyche
People know Henry David Thoreau for his words, but most don't know that he was a great businessman and driver of the Thoreau Pencil Company.
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Melissa Gouty
- Mar 22, 2021
- 8 min
Hit Hard: How to Deal With Ambiguous Loss
Grieving Those Who Are Alive But Not What They Used to Be Photo by John Torcasio on Unsplash Honest. Raw. Painful…Helpful and Healing...
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Melissa Gouty
- Mar 13, 2021
- 5 min
How a Daily Reading Habit Makes You More Creative Than a Daily Writing Habit
Every writer hears the standard advice: Write every day. But if they don't also READ every day, they can't be successful.
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Melissa Gouty
- Mar 4, 2021
- 5 min
How One Compassionate Woman Put 150 Million Books Into the Hands of Kids
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library has "gifted" more than 150 million books to children throughout the world. She's a true book hero.
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Melissa Gouty
- Feb 27, 2021
- 5 min
Why Great Authors Often Choose to Write With Pencils
Writers have a process, a routine, a way of getting their creative mojo flowing. For many, their muse speaks best when they hold a pencil.
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Melissa Gouty
- Feb 25, 2021
- 5 min
8 Heartfelt Life Lessons from Fredrik Backman's Novel, Anxious People
Backman gradually drew me in, weaving threads of detail and story into a fine tapestry of literary art. I came to love the book.
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Melissa Gouty
- Feb 25, 2021
- 6 min
Need Spiritual Sustenance? Read the Novel, Gilead, to See the Power of Faith
Gilead is a tribute to the skill of a writer who created a literary work that is readable, relatable, and wondrous all at the same time.
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Melissa Gouty
- Feb 18, 2021
- 5 min
Five Helpful Tips For Choosing Which Books to Take on a Trip
If you love to travel, but you also love your books, you know how hard it is to decide which ones to take with you. 5 Tips for Choosing.
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Melissa Gouty
- Dec 31, 2020
- 2 min
Serendipitous Insight on the New Year from the Novel, Anxious People
By Fredrik Backman Call it “Literary Luck” Sometimes, I read something that, by coincidence, is perfectly timed with an upcoming holiday....
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Melissa Gouty
- Dec 31, 2020
- 2 min
Can You Think of a Better Poem to Kickstart the New Year?
I can't. "The Year" says it all. “We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear. And that’s the burden of the year.” Ella Wheeler Wilcox I love it...
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Melissa Gouty
- Dec 9, 2020
- 5 min
Why This Tender Land by William Kent Kruger Is One Great Picaro Novel
A picaro novel is based on an outsider who wanders around seeing the best and worst of humanity. This Tender Land is one great picaro novel.
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Melissa Gouty
- Dec 9, 2020
- 1 min
Can You Guess a Few of the Top Ten Quotes of 2020?
Eloquent or not... The Top Ten Quotes of 2020 Every year, Fred Shapiro, a librarian at Yale, compiles a list of the top ten quotes of the...
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Melissa Gouty
- Dec 4, 2020
- 5 min
How the Simple Little Pencil Changed the World Forever
The creation of the pencil helped bring about the Renaissance. The simple, little pencil gave common people the ability to write.
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Melissa Gouty
- Nov 30, 2020
- 4 min
7 Activities To Keep You Moving When Your Writing's At a Standstill
You CAN work without writing Brain blocks and brain breaks Ever had a day when the words are stuck like Gorilla Glue to the inside of...
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Melissa Gouty
- Nov 30, 2020
- 2 min
Achieving a Nearly Impossible Task: Choosing the Top Ten Books of 2020
The best of the best Oh, the Editorial Stress! It happens every year, this task that must be as difficult as a tropical ant hiking to...
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Melissa Gouty
- Nov 30, 2020
- 4 min
Reading Brings Us Joy: Three Ways to Stop Being Too Serious About It
Do It Just For Fun This Tender Land Our Monday night book club had been enjoying a discussion about William Kent Krueger’s novel, This...
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Melissa Gouty
- Nov 27, 2020
- 3 min
Have You Ever Taught Writing? Three Novels You'll Appreciate
Seduction of Water, Punjabi Widows, Lost Friends The Art of Teaching Writing and the Unexpected Results of Doing It Well How do you...
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Melissa Gouty
- Nov 26, 2020
- 4 min
The Value of Old-Fashioned Letters in a Temporary Society
Nothing says love like a letter Careers and friendship chronicled in letters “My heart still palpitates every time I see one of those...
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Melissa Gouty
- Nov 26, 2020
- 3 min
Celebrate World Kindness Day - Because What You Do Matters
3 Simple Ways to Bring Joy to the World Smiling: The Simplest, Cheapest Way to Be Kind It’s so simple, really. Smile. It’s something all...
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Melissa Gouty
- Nov 10, 2020
- 5 min
4 Reasons Why Reading Out Loud Is Actually Good For You
Reading out loud is a skill for all age groups, but it's also a tool that improves memory, comprehension, social connection, and enjoyment.
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