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St. Catharines - Ontario
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Smoke Signals: My Story Collection
Over the past two years, recovering from some pretty serious spinal surgery, I started to wonder if the four months I spent in hospital and the surgery itself had affected my writing ability. So in addition to all the physical work I had to do to get back on my feet, I started wr ...
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The Very Difficult Process Of Learning To Write For Yourself.
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Writing
The 80/20 Differential And What It Means To Me
(The 80/20 rules, as it applies to work situations is also known and the Pareto Principle.This is my own take on it.) · Most of the time, I'm pretty serious as a writer. But every now and then, maybe 20% of the time, I veer off that highway and into whatever this is. · I don't pr ...
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Life Lessons
The 10 Commandments of Communication I Always Tried To Follow
One of the key things I have learned from talking to both clients and people in the communications business over the years is that they believed that hardest thing to do was to develop a methodology or personal business philosophy to help guide them on the long and winding road. ...
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Jim Murray's Story Collection
These are brief descriptions of all the stories in my various collections, as well as my first actual novel. I have formatted them to make them easy to read on virtually any device you have. If you would like to have any or all of them sent to you in PDF form just email me at ona ...
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Writing
Life Without LinkedIn
For the better part of the last decade, I have been on LinkedIn where · I would average close to 3500 views for many of the posts I did. Several of them went viral, A lot of them were blog posts in which I attempted to educate new business owners on the ins and outs of effective ...
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Social Media
The World According To Raymond Reddington
1. The quality of your life is only what you make it. We all have the ability to live like good human beings and help others do the same. · 2. Know that politicians are only attracted to politics because most of them are lawyers and have figured out easy ways to make lots of mone ...
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Some Tips for People Who are Buying Their First Bike.
A lot of people, especially those who are environmentally aware, are leaving their cars at home a lot more and getting around on bikes. · I have been a bike rider for more than 70 years. I have probably owned a couple dozen bikes during that period and have picked up a bit of use ...
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Education
The Decline & Fall Of The Advertising Empire
JIM: I have spent the Lion’s share of my adult life in the business of advertising. When I started in 1971, I was part of the third generation of modern day creative people. My mentors were the people who were taught the trade by the likes of David Ogilvy, Bill Bernbach and Leo B ...
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The Cold Hard Reality of Being a Best Selling Author.
If you fancy yourself a writer and cruise around on social media for any length of time, you will invariably come across offers to publish your book directly and forego all the drudgery of finding a literary agent and a publisher, which, of course, entials going back and doing th ...
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Some Thoughts On The Renewable Revolution
The last couple of decades in the life of planet Earth have been very strange ones indeed. · As a writer and observer of as much of the world as I can learn about without extensive travel, I have seen that there very much appears to be a revolution going on. It’s not a noisy revo ...
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Yadda Yadda Yadda And A Partridge in A Pear Tree: A Christmas Memory
(This was originally written in 2020) · We’re having the worst snowstorm of the season so far as I sit here and write these words. I’ve shovelled twice and will doubtless be shovelling more. According to The Weather Channel, this storm is called a Colorado Low. Not very creative ...
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Yadda Yadda Yadda And A Partridge in A Pear Tree A Christmas Memory
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Writing
The Writer’s Life…A Couple Billion Keystrokes And Counting
I · can’t speak for all writers, because I’m only this one and that’s really all the opinion I am entitled to. · For the past 55 years, all I have ever really known myself to be is a writer. And one of the things I learned about myself as a writer, was that my mind gravitated to ...
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