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The Surprising Path to Serenity

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  Created by Pauline in Canva T he goal might be to live a serene life. That’s the goal. How well are you doing? Right now, there is a week left in November 2025. I am currently writing stories scheduled for the beginning of December. And I am panicking. Why? Because, for me, I like to see at least five or six stories circling above the various platforms I write on. Presently, I’ve got about three on average. It’s not enough for me. I can sit here on a lazy Sunday morning, having already written one article, feeling this rising panic. That is definitely not serene. That it is of my own making is one thing to consider. There is no publisher or agent knocking at my door, asking where the articles they’ve been promised are. In fact, I doubt anybody would be upset if I didn’t write for a time. So, what’s wrong with me? It is certainly not a sense of serenity. It is panic. Why? Okay, consider this. If you realized you had a skin condition, what would you think? Is this somethi...
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Making Plans and How They Go Awry

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  Created by Pauline in Canva We know what is right and what is wrong. We know this. If you were lucky, you were raised to know right from wrong. It’s not right to go around hitting people. It is nicer to share your toys. Don’t chew with your mouth open. Don’t yell in church—that type of stuff. You know it is not right to go into a bank and rob everybody. And yet people do it. You don’t, but other people do. Were they not raised right? What if their parents weren’t around and the people who raised them were robbers? Think of David Copperfield. Not the magician, the character Charles Dickens created. Didn’t he turn out okay in the end? Even with Fabian to teach him how to be a pickpocket? I know that was fiction, but it happens. It’s when you decide to do something different with your life that the universe helpfully steps in and shows you opportunities related to who you were, not who you are now. It happens. Look at Jules in “Pulp Fiction”. He was trying really hard to be ...
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I Don't Believe In That

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Created by Pauline in Canva   I have lost count as to how many people I’ve heard of who express fear, real fear, about even daring to think that they might be psychic. Many times, it just comes out as an “I don’t believe in that.” I don’t know how much clearer you can get than that. I once had a good work friend who was actually a birthday buddy. We were born on the same day, him in one place and me in another. That bond created for me, at least, a bond that was special. I’d known him for years, and although we both worked at the same place, we never took the relationship further than that. I think it was ten years into knowing him that I finally told him I was psychic. He said, “I don’t believe in that.” He turned and pretty much never spoke to me again. Now, he’s passed on, so we still speak occasionally, but that hurt at the time. I’ve had others in my own family do that and even approach my husband, asking what he was going to do about me. That hurts too. However, it was so...
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Free Books

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  Created in Canva by Pauline I know I’ve told you about this before, but I’d like to say it again: Writers read. I don’t have a list of books I recommend other than Stephen King’s book On Writing or Ray Bradbury’s Zen in the Art of Writing. Instead, I have my own idea of allowing myself the freedom to read whatever attracts my attention. Because I’ve been interested in books with a historical flair, especially from the American West during the 1800s, I tend to gravitate toward them. However, that said, I’m open to reading anything. I especially like it when I’m about to scroll further and reject a selection from that day’s offering at Weberbooks, and my Spirit Guide says, “That one”. I trust their opinion that I will enjoy the book. I signed up to receive daily emails from Weberbooks.com reminding me to look at the specials that day from Amazon. These are Kindle books, so you’d either need the free app for your phone or for your computer to allow you to read the free and d...
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Stamina in Writing

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Created by Pauline in Canva   I’ve got so many places to write on the internet, sometimes I begin to feel overwhelmed. I’m also in training to continue with everything I’m already doing and to try to write a book at the same time. Easier said than done. The idea was to do a NaNoWriMo for myself. They are no longer in existence, but it stands for National Novel Writing Month. The original idea was to write a novel of 50,000 words in one month. In the beginning, 20 years ago, when I first began participating, 50,000 words sounded almost unattainable. I won some, I lost more, but every November was when you signed up to write a book in one month. When you won, you got bragging rights. There were no cash prizes. As time went on, the rules changed, and toward the end of their 25-year run, you could pretty much name your own goals for NaNoWriMo, be it 50,000 words or 100,000 words. You could write anything, fiction, nonfiction, your choice, and it also no longer had to be written in No...
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Proofing is Important

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Created by Pauline in Canva It's late. I had a full day with writing. I made a to-do list and got about half of the things done. One ended up being a 1,200 word article for Medium. Another just now was a shorter piece for my other website, Talking to Spirit.com. It's scheduled to be published two days before this one goes out, but the funny thing is that I ended up posting it on this website. Now, Talking to Spirit has to do more with life as a psychic and tips and tricks for folks who would like to invite psychic stuff into their lives, too. Someday I'll be sure to write some books. Actually, I already have, I just have never gotten around to publishing them. In any case, I've always figured that I learned as an adult that you can too. It took me a good five years of intensive study, where I was like a dog with a bone. I just wouldn't let loose. In any case, I don't know if it was because I was tired or what, but I ended up putting that article here on my autho...
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My Way - Because I Have To

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  Created by Pauline in Canva I had an idea just now. It is about getting what I write to provide some money for our household. I could turn my hand to writing books. More books, or I could just continue on with my path of offering up “goodies” to the people who read me on the different platforms I write.  I wrote an article on  Substack asking my free subscribers and anybody new who reads to offer up some suggestions as to things I might add to the stuff I write. The only thing coming to mind right now would be psychic readings that don’t cost anything. Depending on the response I get, it might be a thing, or it might be overwhelming, in which case the offering of free psychic readings would need to be a finite amount, say, three a month, with any more than that costing something. What? I don’t know. Enough to make some money.  Maybe $70 a reading. I used to do a lot of paid readings for $70 a pop. Before that, being a new psychic, I figured I should charge people ...
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