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Getting Organized: My Journey in Book Reviews

By Lydia Nolan © November 16, 2025 I am turning over a new leaf today and from this day forward…. Pretty dramatic, eh?Well… The reviews I post on my other website: http://www.ibcafe.wordpress.com are all out of linear order on the dateline. Why? Because I have been so caught up with various duties, life complications, and soContinueContinue reading “Getting Organized: My Journey in Book Reviews”

Finding Hope in Sundays: A Gateway to Weekly Renewal

by Lydia Nolan September 20, 2009 ON SUNDAYS WE THINK ABOUT MONDAYS THROUGH FRIDAYS, AND ANXIOUSLY AWAIT SATURDAYS I often wonder why I feel a certain amount of anxiety on Sundays. And then I realize that Sundays are the promise of a new week of business, networks of communications, contacts to ventures, and the hustleContinueContinue reading “Finding Hope in Sundays: A Gateway to Weekly Renewal”

Swim to, through & Lap Over into the Calm, Calm Sea

Yesterday was a hard pull. I love life of course. Sometimes though, it gets hard to pull through. The pull starts with waking up by the pain that tells me “get up! Arthritis is a bear. I have to stretch as much as possible, try and roll back and forth, and fan my legs inContinueContinue reading “Swim to, through & Lap Over into the Calm, Calm Sea”

From Cave to Creativity: The Writer’s Path

Writers, after a stretch of time, may become hermits. We don’t go anywhere, visit anyone, pay attention to the world around us, and when we’re done with a project, we come out of the room as though we were ascending from the underworld, looking for communication and others like us. Most of the time, weContinueContinue reading “From Cave to Creativity: The Writer’s Path”

Lessons from the Past: Letting Go for a Better Year

Let it Go, Let it Go! By Lydia Nolan December 14, 2024 It isn’t an easy thing this New Year deal. We speak of letting go the old and bringing in the new. This means everything that happened last year is to be taken with a grain of salt, or left behind, or lost toContinueContinue reading “Lessons from the Past: Letting Go for a Better Year”

Peripherals

Being a writer isn’t always glamorous. In fact, it’s not glamorous at all, at least not while you are actually writing. Furthermore, it is a lonely endeavor. No one wants to sit there beside you while you think of the plots, characters and settings, then write. There are many components to writing besides the actualContinueContinue reading “Peripherals”