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Blog Entries by Claudia Ricci from 01/2011

To Be Happy, Try Flipping Your Life Script

| Posted 01.02.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Writing as Therapy, Journal Writing, Therapy, Writing, Fiction, Happiness, Happiness Tips, Healthy Living News

The human mind is a kind of word and story machine. The mind encodes all experience in words and stories, pictures and images and sensory impressions....

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How I Got Happy Developing a Class in Happiness

| Posted 01.04.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: How-to-Be-Happy, How-to-Be-Happy-Everyday, Happiness Tips, Happiness, Healthy Living News

Great is the irony of designing a brand new class in happiness. Because as you will see if you read the computer diary that I kept when I first star...

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With all those guns out there ...the Tucson tragedy won't be the last...

| Posted 01.09.2011 | Politics
Read More: Gun Control, Tragedy in Tucson, Gabrielle Giffords, Arizona Shooting Spree, Guns, Arizona Shooting, Politics News

My Arizona writer friend Dan Beauchamp, a former academic who moved out to Bisbee, Arizona, after he retired and later became Mayor of that colorful t...

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A 'Novel' Way to Read a Novel: Right Here on the Huffington Post

| Posted 01.31.2011 | Books
Read More: Novels, Charles Dickens, Serialized Fiction, Fiction, Mark Twain, Blog Book, Books News

Borrowing from the Victorian tradition of serialized publishing, my new novel, Seeing Red, will be published right here on the Huffington Post beginning next week.

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"Winter Whether" Brings Back Memories of My Cancer

| Posted 01.31.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Lymphoma, Memoir, Surviving Cancer, Cancer, Creative Writing, Writing, Fiction, Healthy Living News

I carry my cup of tea into the living room and stand at the door. I stare out at the pine trees, their boughs laden in snow. I open the door. I inhale. The air is a painful blast.

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