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Lessons Learned From 15 Minutes Of Amazon Fame

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I got my 15 minutes of fame by joining Amazon’s KDP Select. Could it work for you?

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Julia Child: Eat Well, Live Big, Bloom Late!

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How can you not love Julia Child? She was 6′ of bonhomie, exuberant passion, in love with food and with life. And she waited until age 36 to find it!

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P.D. James: From Civil Servant to Literary Royalty

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PD James retired from the Home Office after writing eight successful mysteries. Today, at age 90, she’s a baroness and still going strong!

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6 Late-Blooming Athletes To Get You Going

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Six people who found their inner athlete after age 50! Featuring two bodybuilders, a boxer, kayaker, marathoner and mountain climber.

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Mrs. Benz Borrows The Car

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The next time you see a Mercedes on the highway, think of Bertha Benz, the daring gal who took the very first test drive at age 39!

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15 Fascinating Legal Late Bloomers

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What do John Cleese and Hoagy Carmichael have in common? Read about 15 creative folks who detoured to law school first.

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Is It Time To Downsize Your Bucket List?

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Why, during these times of economic downsizing, would I write about downsizing dreams? Since 2007, when the movie The Bucket List came out, the Internet has been deluged with gigantic to-do lists. Some bloggers imply that if you can’t list 101 items to achieve before you “kick the bucket,” you’re not creative enough. Others maintain [...]

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How James Michener Derailed My Career

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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries. ~James Michener As an archaeology grad student, I decided to reread one of my favorite novels, The Source, to judge its accuracy. The story takes place in Israel, on a mound (also known as a tel) formed by millennia of habitation. As each artifact comes to light, [...]

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How Bram Stoker Handled A Soul-Sucking Boss

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What do Dracula and The Devil Wears Prada have in common? Recently I attended the opening of a gourmet chocolate kitchen.  As I sampled the delicious goods, someone asked, “Are you in The Industry too?” The amazing chocolatier, you see, has a day job.  He’s a sound engineer.  He’s done films you’ve heard of. In [...]

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Movies, Misfortune And The Making Of Roget’s Thesaurus

Peter Mark Roget

“The man is not wholly evil – he has a Thesaurus in his cabin.”  (Captain Hook as described by J. M. Barrie in Peter Pan) At  14, he went to university and by age 19 he’d earned his medical degree. (You might call him a Georgian-era Doogie Howser.) He went on to teach physiology at the University of London, [...]

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Why Are Some People Late Bloomers? Part 2

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In Part 1, I explored how “a good garden may have some weeds” — life’s difficulties and Later Blooming. In this installment, I look at two intriguing traits that many Later Bloomers share: Having too many passions and Learning by experimentation Too Many Passions During the Renaissance, humanism arose in revolt against the limits of Medieval education, [...]

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Why Are Some People Late Bloomers? Part 1

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“A good garden may have some weeds.” ~Thomas Fuller Does an article about yet another twenty-something internet millionaire make you wonder where you went wrong? Does a story about a grandma who ran her first marathon at 86 make your day? Don’t worry. If you’re a late-blooming adult, you’re not alone. You’ve got some remarkable company. According [...]

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