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You cannot be aware and think at the same time.  Scientific research has proven that stimulus precedes thought.  Or it could be said that thought lags behind sensation or stimulus.  What is wondrous to the researchers is that thought lags … Continue reading →

One of the precepts of Alanon is, ”Don’t precipitate a crisis nor interfere with a crisis.”  I had, heretofore, understood this admonition to mean, ”bite your tongue and let someone reap the consequences of his bad decisions.”  This is also referred to in … Continue reading →

Currently, I am preparing the lessons for my October-November class, HOW TO WRITE AWARD-WINNING SHORT STORIES THAT PEOPLE LOVE AND REMEMBER.  Since I expect the class to fill up and since some people who would like to take the course live … Continue reading →

As I continue to hear from people who are re-friending their minds by playing the games in my book, my own insights continue to expand. This time last year, a well-known editor I was interviewing to work on the book with me … Continue reading →

As I considered the value of giving copies of 21 Games… to soldiers currently at war, I began rereading the Denma Translation of The Art of War by Sun Tzu.  Contemplating these ancient yet so currently appropriate concepts of victory in war convinced me … Continue reading →

In May, a U.S. Army Major stationed in North Carolina bought an early-release copy of 21 Games for The Mind that Won’t Shut the @#&* Up!  A couple of weeks later, he wrote me an email saying that he would be taking the book with … Continue reading →

Today, when I opened Yahoo! to access one of my email accounts, I noticed that they have recently changed their log-in page. Now, there is a headshot photo of an attractive person, sometimes male, sometimes female, with the accompanying text: Find … Continue reading →

Worry is a pervasive and perverse state of mind.  It is pervasive because it’s companion state of fear is the currency of media news broadcasters.  The experience of fear is incited by the belief that there is a powerful and imminent … Continue reading →

In today’s edition of the Blue Cat Screenplay Competition Newsletter, one of the topics is the current trend in Hollywood to produce movie remakes of earlier successful films or TV shows.  On a poster for the remake of The A Team , the tagline is “There is No … Continue reading →

As we grow from infancy into this worldly life, the initial and innate activity of our minds and, thus our bodies, is the giving of all we’ve got. In order to know what that all is, we first reach out … Continue reading →