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Judges share stories of learning to love themselves. Five winners get $100 gift cards for writing their story of self-acceptance in 100 words. Springfield, MO (PRWEB) February 12, 2013 Four judges have been named to select the five winning entries in the WomenSpeak "How I Learned to Love Myself" contest. Amy Michael, owner and publisher of SpringfieldCares Magazine; Jacqueline Warren, Associate Professor of Art at Drury University; Raylene Appleby, President, PJC Insurance; and...
EVANSVILLE, Ind., Oct. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- If a scientist finds the cure for some debilitating disease, I hope he would publish it as soon as possible. Mediocrity is one of America's greatest ills. So many of us just exist and never learn to live, really live. Cures like the entertainment industry, Wall Street, sports which offer fun, relaxation and excitement fall short of providing the cure. At best, the contentment is short lived and we crash from the high even...
By Don Oldenburg When Australian author Thomas Keneally entered the handbag shop in Beverly Hills that sultry October morning in 1980, he was shopping for a new briefcase before flying back to Sydney. What he got, besides a briefcase, was one of the most extraordinary stories he'd ever come across. The shopkeeper, Leopold "Poldek" Page, was a Holocaust survivor. And he wasn't going to let the writer leave his store without first hearing a largely unknown piece of history. There was...
By Massie, Allan Ten, eleven weeks ago I had an email from Simon Gray to say that the tumour on his lung hadn't grown; so he was all right till his next scan in four months time. Now he is dead and I wonder if they didn't tell him the truth then, or if the thing took a sudden spurt. The latter, surely; he wasn't someone to conceal bad news from. 'I am always eager to acknowledge the worst, ' he wrote in the last published volume of his diaries, 'and often in advance of the evidence.' A day...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oprah Winfrey's powers of promotion, undimmed by a controversy over her endorsement of James Frey's "A Million Little Pieces," worked a charm on her latest monthly book selection on Tuesday, sending Elie Wiesel's "Night" to the top of best-seller lists. Winfrey chose "Night," a first-hand account of World War II Nazi death camps, amid a literary storm over Frey's memoir, parts of which were later found to be untrue. "Night" knocked Frey's book off top spot on...
