Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Get Rich, $tay Rich--Cheap class!

Cheap Class--GRAB it!


 Get Rich, $tay Rich


Make money your friend & servant.

Learn simple ways to become the richest person you know. 

This easy class is a step-by-step guide to bettering your life & circumstances— 

a Money Makeover. 

Wealth is within your grasp.  


1/26-2/16 6-8:30 pm (4 Tuesdays)   

$24.28 !!!


SHORELINE CC PLUS 50    16101 Greenwood Ave. North  (rm 1304)       206-533-6706
http://www.shoreline.edu/workforce/plus-50/current-classes.aspx

FYI--This class is available to anyone of any age.  Sign up soon to make sure the class runs. 

Taught by the author of the book

Get Rich, $tay Rich

 

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Real age piece about writing about sadness

Sad? Don't Forget About It



Feel sad sometimes but don't know exactly why? Tempted to just brush past it? Well, don't. Understanding the source of your sadness can be key to moving on.
In fact, research in people with amnesia shows that having a memory attached to a blue mood is best for emotional well-being. It helps people move past sadness more quickly.
Forget Me Not
In a study, people with intact memories and people with amnesia were shown sad movie clips. The facial expressions and demeanors of amnesic patients remained sad for up to 30 minutes later, even though they had no memory of what they'd seen. In comparison, people with intact memories returned to normal much more quickly.
(Want a sharper memory? Hone your wits with these engaging brain games.)
Remember and Let Go
Knowing what's making you sad is key to dealing with it, learning from it, and letting go. If you don't process what you're going through, sad thoughts may continue to linger, and sad signals may even get stored in your body. That's exactly what researchers suspect happened to the people with amnesia in the recent study. So the next time you feel down but don't know why, grab your journal and try to puzzle it out. You'll feel better if you do.
(Looking to boost your mood? Get to a happier place with these very simple strategies.)
Benefit
Taking care of your emotional health and well-being can make your RealAge up to 16 years younger.
References
Sustained experience of emotion after loss of memory in patients with amnesia. Feinstein, J. S. et al.,
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2010 Apr 27;107(17):7674-7679.

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Thursday, September 24, 2015

Free eBooks Promos



FREE eBooks

Pass these sites along to anyone you want. I look at my eBooks as the legacies I want to leave to family, friends, writing community, and people in general.

Fifty Shades of Graying: Love, Romance, and Sex After Fifty is free 9/23-9/27 http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00T85X2T4
The Successful Risk Taker is free 9/26-9/30 http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00Y7PT366
Making Mud Angels: Winning Strategies in Tough Times is free 9/30-10/4 http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00S0JD7M6

  















You can download any or all of these to your computer using an app that Amazon offers at the time of "purchasing" the free books. Or you can have them "delivered" to you on Amazon's Cloud Reader and read them right on their website.

Ariele Huff is a writer, editor, and teacher specializing in helping others get their books out as eBooks or publish on demand paperbacks. She is a third generation Seattle-dweller.



Friday, September 11, 2015

Shoreline class--CHEAP







 Cheap Class--GRAB it!



 Getting What You Want: Winning Letters & Emails 
  

Whether you’re after a promotion, a new account, stronger ties in business, a new job, a better deal, an apology, a refund, or freebies, a few well-placed words can turn the trick. 
Learn the basics of creating persuasive messages in this to-the-point class where 
we’ll look at specific student needs as well as general rules.  

9/29-10/27 6-8pm (5 Tuesdays)                                                                           $25.99

SHORELINE CC PLUS 50    16101 Greenwood Ave. North  (rm 1304)       206-533-6706

FYI--This class is available to anyone of any age.  Sign up soon to make sure the class runs. 





Monday, July 13, 2015

Sanctuary



SANCTUARY

            June’s dragon breath lay like a comforting quilt on Ella’s back as she stretched over the Wildcat’s metal haunch.  Inside the house of her childhood, her father was dying.
            Seeping, seeping, seeping life away, Ella’s mind chanted hypnotically.  It was a five-year-old moment in a fifty-five-year-old mind, tired from months of caring for one swiftly disintegrating parent and another, harried and grief-stricken.
            This is the last time, last time, I’ll be like this.  Ella felt the sun-warmed car beneath her.  A jellyfish on a beach rock, she absorbed the Sweetpeas along the driveway, the smell of summer dirt, and the peace of being a child of two living parents, outside the house where she had been raised.
            With one last embrace to the Wildcat – car of the father who loved her, still cluttered with his odd assortment of tools and toys – Ella returned to the house, where the imminent passing whistled and roared down the hallways.
            In twenty more days, Ella’s father split his skin and splashed against the wall, a sunburst of light, headed for the window and the relief of the July day.  It was the first day in two months Ella had not been with her parents.
            Her sister, who hadn’t been able to help, had said she couldn’t help, even wouldn’t help, was there.  It was an interesting coincidence, Ella thought.  But the next day when her mother refused Ella’s help with the last arrangements, clung to the reluctant Sophie, it was a shock – a second orphaning in so many days.
            Perhaps, I’m wrong, Ella thought to herself and waited to be summoned.  Waited through days of sudden chilly breezes in closed rooms, slamming doors, smiling Casper the ghost bedside emanations.  She waited while Sophie sorted through their father’s possessions, taking tools and three cars, including the Wildcat, Ella’s one request.
            When Sophie was done, Ella was called and brought to deal with the rest: old clothes, boxes of worn books, leaking faucets and plugged drains, a bereft widow.  Bereft but no longer restrained.
            “I’ve always had a special feeling about Sophie, like we were married in a previous life or something.”
            Ella could almost see the cloud of her illusions moving from between them.  She bent to fill a box with the remainders of her father’s medicines.  She had known his love like a many-colored coat; she hadn’t recognized it as a safe shelter within her own home.
 
My Short Stories Workshop is July 18th 10am-2pm through Everett CC. Call 425-267-0150 to register.

Father and daughter