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Your Brain, AI, and Reading Books (Thanks, Juliette Han, PhD!)

Before you go any further, I have to make it super clear that this blog...
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Thanks, Joe Davich!

Last week in Creative Loafing my good pal Joe Davich (who is also Literary Know-All of Georgia–at Georgia...
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Party Like it’s DBF!!

The AJC Decatur Book Festival is coming next weekend, and the lineup this year is...
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Summer Events!!!

Summer is usually a great time for me to teach at various writing workshops, and...
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TWO Writing Workshops this Fall!

This kinda says it all about what I’m looking forward to as August is over...
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Summer Writing Camps!

It was a quiet winter for me, but things are beginning to bloom here in...
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Food for Thought: Best Approaches to Improving Students Writing

Recently a friend (whose daughter I am tutoring in creative writing) sent me a link...
Two book covers promoting parties for "Drive Me Crazy" and "This Is All Your Fault."

I Hope You Can Make It To At Least One!!!

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Holiday Time: Little Shop of Stories will Ship!

You all know I work at the amazing bookstore, Little Shop of Stories, in Decatur,...
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Dare to Share your Diary

  Diary entries can be embarrassing. In the wrong hands (even your own, years later),...
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My friend (and great thinker, moving poet, inspirational character) Franklin Abbott shared this poem with...
Inspirational quote about books as powerful weapons in a library.

Books Are Ammo for Your Brain

Humans invented storytelling to explain things to others that they hadn’t experienced themselves. It’s a...