Author: reflectionsofrenaissance
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The Life Hack for Everything
–Carter Pierce I can already see some skeptical looks coming my way at ninety miles an hour. I have my tennis racket ready . . . This is something that I’ve been implementing in my own life recently, and it has worked beautifully. So I wanted to share it with you! First off, what is […]
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Marjory
__ By Carter Pierce __ One never really knows when an adventure will jump out of nowhere and hand you a cup of coffee. It was a warm morning in early May when it happened to Marjory: she’d bid her father good-bye at the Denver airport, and he’d driven away. She’d made it through security, […]
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Winston
__ By Carter Pierce __ It was on a foggy morning in early May that I was first introduced to the plight of Winston Edelbrock Marchbury. The city was quiet. I could see the dim figures of other people on the street as I hurried along, but the fog muffled any noise they made. They […]
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Color Vs Emotions
Sources: Cherry, K. (2020, May 28). Color Psychology: Does It Affect How You Feel? Verywell well. https://www.verywellmind.com/color-psychology-2795824 Vetter, C. (2019, December 5). The effects of colors on behavior. Neurofied. https://neurofied.com/effects-of-color-on-behavior/ Cherry, Kendra. “Can Color Affect Your Mood and Behavior?” Verywell Mind, Verywell Mind, 28 May 2020, https://www.verywellmind.com/color-psychology
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Learning a New Instrument!
“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.” ― Plato Is music something in life that you can’t go without? For me it definitely is! Just relaxing, listening to some contemporary music, and thinking about my day is a way that I wish that […]
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The Benefits of Journaling
There are many things in this world that can take a turn for the worse. Relationships, medication, your job, friendships, the weather, and so much more. Oddly enough, when these things happen, we tend to focus on the bad and ugly things rather than the good. So, can journaling take away these issues? Not necessarily, […]
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8 Sites for Writers
NaNoWriMo https://nanowrimo.org This is probably one that a lot of people know about and/or have participated in. NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month. You can’t necessarily publish your works through NaNoWriMo. It’s built for keeping track of your progress with multiple helpful statistics, including day-by-day word count, lifetime word count, total projects, etc. It’s […]
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Happy Thanksgiving!
It’s that time of year again! Stores are already stocking for Easter, beer is flying off the shelves, some folks are Christmas shopping, and most everybody has turned the heat up indoors. In our fast-paced American culture, I think a lot of people miss the deeper things. A few of us are lucky and have […]
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Why Work When You Could Play a Videogame?
_________________________________________________________ Yeah, we’ve all been there, I think. In modern America the pull of the screen has become increasingly strong, the graphics are way better than they were in 1822, and the plots! jeez, the plots are insanely complicated and amazing. (Mostly). But after all this, could there be drawbacks to playing videogames? In my […]
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The Duel
___________________________________________________________ This short story was contributed by guest writer Dauntless Jacobson __________________________________________________________ “. . . And then I knocked his sword aside and bopped him on the head with my foil,” Luke laughed as he recounted the duel with exaggerated hand and feet movements. “I can’t believe he thought he could beat me.” The other […]
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