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The Joy of Having Written

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Please welcome this guest post by Karina Fabian, author of the new book, Mind Over Psyche . Every now and then, we have Tabata week at the gym I attend. If you don’t know Tabata, think of it as being in labor: 20 seconds of hard pushing and pain, followed by ten seconds of rest. Of course, drugs are discouraged and your trainer might not appreciate it if you snarl, “This is your fault!” but it only lasts an hour, and then you’re done until the next day. Sometimes, I enjoy going to the gym, but it had been a crazy week, anyway, and my motivation was low, even less so for Tabata, but I went. Why? Even though I didn’t look forward to going, I enjoyed having gone. That’s how it goes with writing sometimes. There are plenty of times when I don’t feel like writing. Sometimes, other things in life seem much more important, whether planning a surprise for my husband’s retirement or doing dishes. Sometimes, it’s looking at my Amazon sales and realizing that, should something ho

Remember These?

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I was sitting at the computer card catalogue at my local library today and reached for a piece of scrap paper to write the call number on. When I flipped it over, I realized that this was what I was writing on - a small piece of library history.