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WHAT IT MEANS TO AGE GRACEFULLY ...
When I was a young woman, I was caught by the expression, “You are what you eat.” I still believe that, and not just in terms of the...
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stephanieraffelock
- Mar 24, 2020
- 3 min
What It Means to Age Gracefully…
To age gracefully is to age with gratitude. I embrace, believe and experience this truth every day. Walking life in gratitude is not...
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stephanieraffelock
- Mar 4, 2020
- 2 min
What It Means to Age Gracefully…
One definition of the phrase aging gracefully means that we look younger than our years. But that’s a sorry and shallow definition, and...
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stephanieraffelock
- Jan 11, 2020
- 2 min
In the Age of Me, Me, Me, Me . . .
Writing is one thing. Marketing yourself to the world is another. On the one hand I don’t think that the desire for readers is an...
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stephanieraffelock
- Apr 1, 2018
- 2 min
A Birthday Selfie – Reflections on 66!
My friends are precious to me, some known for 40 and 50 years. They’re the source of birthday cards and calls, emails and birthday...
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stephanieraffelock
- Feb 27, 2018
- 4 min
The Writing Pep-Talk Rant -a-Rama!
This is a pep-talk sort of rant that is as much for me as it is for anyone. Be forewarned: I speak of some unsavory aspects of writing...
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stephanieraffelock
- Jun 5, 2017
- 2 min
Insecurity, Not Good Enough and Other Sucky Things Writers Do to Themselves
On the one hand, you have to be a little bit crazy to want to lock yourself into a room several hours each day to create worlds with the...
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stephanieraffelock
- Apr 16, 2017
- 3 min
A Life In Letters
A few days ago an old friend, Kitty, emailed me that she was cleaning out a file cabinet and had found several of my letters. She scanned...
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stephanieraffelock
- Apr 2, 2017
- 3 min
Inspire or Perspire, Thoughts From An Old Determined Rookie
My writing journey is pretty inspirational, at least to me. For the past four years, I have been doing what musicians call...
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stephanieraffelock
- Feb 18, 2017
- 3 min
Why Would You Even Want to Write a Book?
So why write a book at all? I’ve asked myself this question in the past year as I’ve slogged through the slow revision and polish process...
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stephanieraffelock
- Jan 9, 2017
- 2 min
What’s Your Word for 2017?
Even though one day is pretty much the same as another, and an arbitrary line between December 31st and January 1st doesn’t really mean...
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stephanieraffelock
- Dec 24, 2016
- 1 min
Holiday Wishes
I am hunkered down with tea and a laptop, moving forward on a manuscript that has had its hands around my throat for the past year and...
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stephanieraffelock
- Oct 1, 2016
- 3 min
The Why of What We Write
Recently I was given a list of Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling. It’s a great list for anyone who writes fiction. Number #14 on the list...
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stephanieraffelock
- Feb 24, 2016
- 4 min
Technology and the Death of Introspection
For a while I still read at night. Schooled on the principle that one’s writing is a direct reflection of the quality of one’s reading, I...
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stephanieraffelock
- Feb 13, 2016
- 2 min
What The Morning Brings
I kept the teapot and the sugar and creamer, though I lost the lid to the pot during a move. I displayed them on a shelf. The rest of the...
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stephanieraffelock
- Feb 11, 2016
- 2 min
Investing In Your Writing
By the time you are working in the long-form format of the novel or the memoir, craft becomes the big thing. Story. Craft is what makes...
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stephanieraffelock
- Dec 30, 2015
- 3 min
Friended, Fanned and Porned (How To Make Facebook and Other Social Media Un-Fun)
And the problem didn’t start when I got porned on Facebook. A sexually violent picture appeared on my timeline. I was able to report it...
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stephanieraffelock
- Sep 20, 2015
- 2 min
Delights and Deliverance
Our group goes to the Minnenhauf. It means “house of love.” We meet Sister Felicitous, who tells us about the women from whose...
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stephanieraffelock
- Sep 9, 2015
- 4 min
And Then I Blogged Through Belgium
Thus far, my sixties have been the most exciting and fun part of my life. I never believed I would say that a few years ago. Sixty is,...
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stephanieraffelock
- Aug 10, 2015
- 3 min
We Are All Connected By Our Stories
Writers are a quirky lot. We spend a lot of time in our introverted creative bubbles, so when we do venture out, it’s kind of a party....
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