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schroedingersk8 · 5 years

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8.What dating me is like when you THINK you are a DOM.

Posting as Mistress K8 Morgan, k8morgan.com

It is a beautiful Sunday afternoon. You have just woken up, having spent the night on your sofa. You have fallen asleep while watching Bake Off re-runs and eating take-away, but it is a comfy sofa and you do have a cosy throw, so you didn’t actually bother with going to the bedroom when you woke up for the first time early this morning. You sit up, and a copy of 50 Shades of Grey falls off your pillow. Oh yes!!! You forgot! You have finished THE BOOK! Your girlfriend must have forgotten it when she moved out, having dumped your sorry ass for being too much of a lazy house slob and never wanting to do anything beside telly on the weekends. Did I say girlfriend? EX girlfriend.

You look back at the book, on the floor, and smile! But yes, of course! It makes perfect sense now! The reason your relationship failed, the reason all of them fail, the reason even Tinder dates don’t call you back is because you are, and having read THE BOOK you are now 100% sure -- you are a Dominant man, and they were not submissive enough for you. Yes, yes, that’s it! You, a surprisingly overweight guy in your late 20es who hasn’t left the house since he got back from work on Friday, in a very junior role and currently on probation for accidentally sending a dick pic to your male boss, right now struggling to find your second slipper somewhere under the sofa, amidst a pile of car magazines, some dirty clothes, and an old greasy pizza box, wearing a stretched out formerly white, now itself some 50 shades of grey T-shirt, adorned with both ketchup and mustard stains, and in underpants that look like they are a heirloom from a family with a history of digestive issues -- yes, YOU are the living embodiment of an elusive and mysterious kinky billionaire Christian Grey! And now all the women will fall to your feet! You decide to give up your search for the 2nd slipper, and stand up. A few crisps come tumbling onto the floor. “Strange, I do not even remember eating these last night.” -- you think to yourself. -- You pick up the biggest one and eat it.

You go to your dining table, and make room for your iPad, by pushing everything aside. You open browser, and type in D O M I N A N T, thinking to look at what dominant men are like, at least in the eyes of the society, but the first search suggestion is for dominant women. “Oh yeah!” -- you say out loud, and click “images”. After a few glances, on this ill-fated Sunday afternoon, you come across my picture, and after an even shorter research, you find me on Instagram.

The rest is as follows:

Instagram DM, to my account that asks for NO DMs, please:

-- HI

Pleased with yourself, and with a feeling of an accomplished mission, you go to the loo. You come back, good half an hour later, having jerked off in the shower because the idea of meeting me has gotten you all hot and bothered. You are now wearing an old dusty pink bathrobe -- yet another remnant of your ex -- to find that your message has neither been read, nor replied to. You think a little, and your brilliant mind produces another pearl:

-- HOT! [aubergine emoji] [water drops emoji]

ALL from the mind that brought us the “HI”...

In about an hour, you realise that I probably won’t read your messages on there, nor respond to them. You actually bother to click onto my profile, and find the email in my contact details. Score 1 for thorough investigation and due diligence.

You write:

Subject: Your Christian Grey.

Hi, I have come across your insta and you look hot, it says you are a domme but I think all this is only to show, and that what you really need is this hot young buck to bend you over the table and fuck you. Agreed?

C G

And you attach a dick pic. Yup, same one you’ve sent to your boss. It actually isn’t even your own dick pic, your dick is shorter than that and has too much foreskin, so you use the one you once got sent by some drunk guy on Snapchat, who thought you were a girl. Clever!

A day passes without any response from me. On Monday you go to work, you expect to come back to an email from me. It does not happen. Nor does it happen on Tuesday. Nor on Wednesday. On Thursday night you go out for a few pints with the mates, and come back home tipsy. You go back on Instagram, to look me up again. I still haven’t followed you, replied or even read your messages.

-- BITCH

-- WHAT MADE YOU THINK THAT ID EVER EVEN FUCH YOU

-- HAHAHA I HAVE A MUCH HOTTER GF THAN YOU

-- SUCK THIS -- say you, yet again sending me a picture of another man’s penis.

In about two weeks from the described event I check my Instagram DMs from people I do not follow, and come across your messages. I recognise you, from the dick pic. Which wasn’t even yours!

How can I possibly know that? Well, I have seen a few nice black dicks before, but never in my life have they been attached to a pasty white dude. And yes, I learn all that from glancing over your own Instagram profile and pictures, before I press “delete” and “block”.

And this is how our love affair ends, with me, laughing to myself, and wondering whether it would be ethical, in this day and age of mermaids and unicorns, to use my superpowers to make someone self-identify as a Cockwomble, instead of a Dom.

P.S. And if you managed to crack one off to any part of this post, then there is really nothing on the internet that you wouldn’t masturbate to, is there?!

No one, under the penalty of the EU copyright laws, is allowed to use or reproduce my blog or individual posts, or even passages, in any way, shape or form, be it for Netflix series, Amazon books, or anything of the kind, regardless of the credit given. K8Morgan.com.

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advancedthetapractitioner · 5 years

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Club Factory, Shein, Chinese Apps Ban: What Is Coming Next For Fashion Bloggers?

YouTuber Malika Sitlani believes bloggers should concentrate more on going forward with Nykaa and Myntra.

Shein, Club Factory, and ROMWE getting prohibited has a startling reaction — it's hitting a significant number of India's most popular design bloggers where it harms. Notable substance makers, as Shraddha Gurung (otherwise called LilMissGurung), Sejal Kumar, and Harshala Patil were acclaimed for making "pull" recordings, where they'd grandstand various moderate and polished garments purchased from these stages. With the application boycott presently set up, these makers are stressed over what will come straightaway.

YouTuber and Fashion content maker, Harshala Patil disclosed to Gadgets 360 that Shein was especially mainstream inside the style blogging network as a result of the reasonably evaluated at this point popular apparel.

"Shein was such a rave and it was for an explanation, no uncertainty. I mean such in vogue garments at such reasonable rates, in addition to it is size comprehensive," Patil said. "So I figure it would influence bloggers a little with regards to making new substance. As you most likely are aware, style and patterns continue changing each season."

Vloggers state that the boycott may make open doors for homegrown brands and takes from destinations like Ajio and Myntra may see an ascent, while others had just changed to pulls from Amazon since it had the option to convey garments all the more dependably during the COVID-19 related lockdown which was initiated to stop the spread of coronavirus in India.

Past The TikTok Boycott

The boycott of TikTok has just become effective, and a great deal of makers on that stage spent the most recent couple of hours it was as yet available attempting to bring their following across to Instagram and YouTube. For individuals like Gurung and Patil who have a major after, in light of the styles they had the option to appear from destinations like Shein, the effect will be somewhat extraordinary.

Addressing Gadgets 360, Gurung said makers may take two or three months to adjust to the nonappearance of these applications. "The significant explanation behind the fame and commitment on these takes were the reasonable cost for the most recent patterns which made substance creation a lot less expensive and consequently simpler for a more extensive arrangement of makers," she said.

"I figure it would simply influence the makers for two or three months yet they'll inevitably move to an alternate stage and adjust," Gurung included.

Style advanced substance makers are now considering how to alter, given that Shein isn't accessible right now. "I've heard incredible surveys for the Ajio application," Gurung said. "There are huge amounts of manageable home developed brands that I float towards, which right presently fundamentally work through their sites and Instagram pages. Rearranging Suitcases, Okhai, Pot Plant Clothing to give some examples."

Indian Destinations Will Make Gains

Aside from Ajio, Myntra and Nykaa additionally appear to be well known among style bloggers. YouTuber Malvika Sitlani, who has more than five lakh adherents on YouTube and just shy of four lakh on Instagram, is known for her cosmetics instructional exercises. She stated, "I love Myntra. I shop a great deal on that application and it has some great stuff on there. I additionally suggest Nykaa - my one-stop look for everything cosmetics, and now style since they do have Nykaafashion."

"I think bloggers are going to discover increasingly nearby brands. I accept we have passed up some extremely gifted fashioners/brands in light of the fact that Shein and Club Factory were everywhere. As it were, it will allow these brands to flourish more. Myntra pulls, Nykaa design pulls are a few things we can concentrate on." Sitlani revealed to Gadgets 360.

Patil likewise feels that homegrown brands may see some permeability, and furthermore, that pull recordings from Ajio, Myntra, Amazon, H&M, and Zara may increment. She said she is likewise anticipating do road pulls and is considering hitting Bandra Linking Road and Colaba Causeway when the lockdown lifts.

YouTuber Sejal Kumar additionally said that she intends to be more innovative and repurpose her old garments. She has even made another Fashion Basics arrangement on her YouTube channel to enable her devotees to get roused. "I for one would concentrate on repurposing what I as of now have and indicating it in another and innovative manner," Kumar said. "I have begun a style nuts and bolts arrangement utilizing things I have had for quite a long time."

She likewise plans to team up additional with Indian brands and creators that merit the acknowledgment, Kumar said. She has more than 10 lakh endorsers on YouTube and just shy of eight lakh devotees on Instagram, and needs to open this crowd to new brands.

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Eventually, the boycott of Shein or Club Factory will affect these substance makers, however, the boycott of TikTok is the thing that will have a greater amount of an impact, for the numerous individuals who were dependent on the stage to contact a group of people.

"Some of them have endeavored to pick up the accompanying that they have picked up, and as a kindred maker, I can't envision having my essential stage being detracted from me instantly," Sitlani said. "Youtube and Instagram gave me the existence I'm living today and it has allowed me to show my specialty. I can't envision what Tiktokers are experiencing as of now, a great deal of them may be utilizing this application to put food on their table."

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4 Funky Fungi to Liven Up Your Game (And A Few Ways To Use Them)—Part 1 of 2

This is as pretty as mushrooms get. Fair warning: it’s all a horror show from here on out. Image Courtesy of Pixabay.com

Beneath the soil they wait, oozing digestive juices to liquefy and absorb any edible material hapless enough to fall in their path. Silently, patiently, they spread hidden tendrils thinner than a hair under the ground, linking threads to form an invisible net below the feet of the hapless humanoids lumbering above them. Relentlessly, they burrow through the ground. Growing, consuming, they bide their time over months, years, centuries, even millennia until the time arrives that they burst through the ground, hurling copies of themselves into the air and preparing to begin the cycle once more.

Sure, this is a workable description of any number of ancient evils in fantasy gaming, but it’s also a pretty solid way of talking about the fungi you probably have in the patch of ground nearest to you right now. What we think of as “mushrooms” are really only formed by a small fraction of fungal species;

…in fact, the “mushrooms” that we see are just the mechanism by which fungi spread. This means that Toad from Super Mario Brothers, myconids from D&D, and any other mushroom creatures you can think of are just ambulatory reproductive organs, and the Smurfs village is basically a scene from a Saw movie.

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in fact, the “mushrooms” that we see are just the mechanism by which fungi spread. This means that Toad from Super Mario Brothers, myconids from D&D, and any other mushroom creatures you can think of are just ambulatory reproductive organs, and the Smurfs village is basically a scene from a Saw movie.

The majority of the “body” of a fungus is its mycelium (yes, like the network in Star Trek), which grows out in all directions, seeking food and forming a network within the soil. This underground network exists in nearly all areas with vegetative life, and in addition to decomposing materials that would otherwise pile up, it is used by plants as a kind of external digestive system, forming a symbiotic relationship whereby plants can gather food and nutrients that they can’t reach with their own root systems. There is even evidence that this network of fungi is also used in a form analogous to communication between plants, forming what is sometimes called (and I could not possibly be more delighted to tell you this) a “wood-wide web”.

Until around 1960, fungi were considered to be plants — which makes sense; they grow from something that looks like seeds, and they don’t move on their own. However, later science determined that they were much more closely related to animals, just completely immobile and without any sort of muscle tissue — which really makes me wonder whether I might technically be a fungus. They store energy as glycogen (like animals) rather than starch (like plants), and their cells are given rigidity not by plant-based materials like cellulose but instead by chitin, the same material that makes up the exoskeletons of insects like cockroaches. Yum!

Fungi can be medicinal or poisonous or delicious (or sometimes a combination of any two of those things), and the difference between a good dinner and an early grave is sometimes a matter of how they’re prepared. Indigestible or poisonous mushrooms can be rendered edible (or at least less harmful) by any number of techniques. I’m not going to go into more detail than that because a) this is the Internet, and no one should try to do this kind of thing based on the advice of an RPG blog, and b) even if that were a good idea, I’m the absolute last person who should be giving that kind of instruction. With that in mind…

Warning: mushrooms can kill you.

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Warning: mushrooms can kill you, just like they were rumored to have killed the Roman emperor Claudius, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI, Pope Clement VII, and the composer Johann Schobert. And that’s just some of the famous people. About seven people per year die of mushroom poisoning in the U.S, and hundreds more are made seriously ill. Even though there are pictures in this article, and for the most part I tried to find reasonable approximations of what the fungi in question looked like, this is not an identification guide. I can’t even match my socks in the morning, and I can barely avoid killing my family when I cook for them even when I don’t use potentially poisonous ingredients — do not take anything I say as adequate reason to put these things in your mouth.

However, describing such things is not only safe, but extremely cool. And with that in mind, I present to you 8 Funky Fungi To Liven Up Your Game (And A Few Ways To Use Them).

Mind-Controlling Ant Fungus (ophiocordyceps unilateralis)

Strangely, the animated “Antz” movie left this scene on the cutting room floor. Is that reference dated? I feel like that reference is dated now. Oh, well. Look it up.

By itself, there’s nothing especially new or interesting about a fungal infection. If you’re alive, which I assume most of you reading this are, you are already host to a dizzying array of fungi, yeasts, and other creatures that call you home. They’re like roommates (good or bad). They do their thing to varying degrees of intrusiveness and stink. You also do your thing, and if you’re too incompatible, one or the other of you gets evicted. Cordyceps is more like that friend who visits from out of town and suddenly surprise!��They’re moving to your city and need a place to stay. First they start eating all the food out of your fridge, then they start making demands, and before you know it, they’re trying to hollow you out and turn your body into a nutrient paste they can use for reproduction. Which is not, in fact, something that everyone does, Harold.

This particular species of Cordyceps infects carpenter ants, and then even while eating them alive, hijacks the nervous and muscular system of the ant, forcing it to travel to an appropriate piece of plant cover, climb to the ideal elevation for reproduction, clamp on to the grass with their mandibles, and then die. The fungus continues to spread within the ant, before eventually sprouting out of the long-dead husk and throwing its spores to the wind, beginning the cycle all over again. Some scientists think that the ants may be cognitively unaffected during all of this, and that the mechanism is actually a little less like mind control, and a little more like being controlled like an agonized marionette from within. Nature is amazing.

Potential Game Use:

A prodigal son from a local farming community finally returned, but the day after his tearful homecoming, he wandered into the woods and disappeared, only to be found again a week later dead, hollowed out, and filled with a mysterious powdery substance that creates a powerful feeling of well-being when inhaled, even accidentally. The heroes have been called in to investigate the case, as local law enforcement has no idea what is going on.

At first, all signs point to a horrible drug deal gone bad, until the characters find several locals attempting (and maybe succeeding) in stealing the mysterious powder, claiming that they feel compelled to share with their friends and family. “Addicts” at first violently resist any attempts to prevent them from taking or spreading this powder, eventually becoming a kind of hive mind that exhales spores onto the PCs. If not helped, the entire village will die in agony, possibly spreading the infection to other nearby areas.

In such a story, there are plenty of opportunities for medical or nature rolls (to determine the nature of the illness or the drug), social rolls (to determine that individuals are being non-magically mind-controlled) and constitution-type rolls to avoid infection. Potential solutions include spells curing disease, exotic alchemical reagents, introducing another fungal or bacterial species to counteract the infection, and good old-fashioned fire (for games that tend to be a little darker in tone).

Candy Cap Mushrooms (lactarius rubidus)

Sure; when a mushroom hunter finds something on the ground that tastes like maple syrup, they’re “nature-loving” and “exploratory,” but when I do it I’m “too old to still be doing this kind of thing” and “need to put on pants.”

Edible mushrooms, by themselves, aren’t all that much to write home about (unless “home” has a mycologist, in which case you should definitely write home to make sure you’re eating the right ones). Edible mushrooms that make for a workable ice cream flavor start to get a little more interesting. Where lactarius rubidus gets really fun though, is after the initial consumption. When dried and then reconstituted, this mushroom tastes like maple syrup (because, it turns out, it produces the same chemical that is used to make maple syrup flavoring—now who’s being unnatural, Canada?). The real magic happens later, when the sweat and tears of people who eat the mushroom start to smell like maple syrup as well. It’s like someone with more imagination than impulse control stumbled across a wish-granting leprechaun and demanded a combination of dessert and cologne, and I’ll be darned if the little guy didn’t make it work.

Potential Game Use:

The characters are invited to a feast by a local fae noble. Because interactions with faeries in folklore and fiction are one part entertainment to three parts weaponized manners, eventually, a character is going to insult someone. To keep this adventure from feeling too “on the rails,” feel free to use a character loosely associated with the fae whom the PCs have insulted or irritated previously. For a little foreshadowing fun, include some sort of massively dangerous but largely mindless beast in a cage, leashed or otherwise bound near the tables as the characters eat. After the feast, the heroes are offered an especially delicate and exotic dessert mushroom, which is also given to the dangerous creature. The creature immediately tears into the dessert mushrooms with terrifying abandon: think “Cookie Monster” meets “Sharknado.” Because players aren’t dumb, they will almost certainly check the dessert to make sure it’s not poisonous, magically or otherwise trapped (which of course, it’s not), and/or wait to see what happens with the Hungry Hungry Horror. Offer the character some sort of minor benefit for eating the mushrooms — healing, one additional use of a power, or whatever form of play currency is used in your game (e.g. inspiration, conviction, XP). Keep track of what characters eat the mushroom and how many they eat.

Following the meal, the characters discover the delightful side effect of the mushroom — they smell exactly like the delicious dessert they just consumed thanks to their unrefined humanoid biology. Their fae hosts, of course, have more refined digestion. As the characters look on in horror, the fae lord at the head of the table lets the leash slip on their pet monster, who lunges at the nearest character while the nearby court of fae watches and applauds. This is a fairly straightforward mostly-combat encounter, but with a lot of potential fun in the form of set pieces for combat. Think flipped tables, improvised weapons, flying crockery, and lithe, mocking figures darting in and out to make things more “interesting.” This may also be an opportunity for more socially-oriented characters to use their charm to request assistance from particularly engaged onlookers.

Octopus Stinkhorn (clathrus archeri)

Apparently, they smell as good as they look.

To the right, you will see a picture of what I absolutely swear is not only a fungus, but the single grossest fungus I have ever read about (and that’s including a species coming up in the next article that grows exclusively on herbivore dung). The Octopus Stinkhorn begins its visible life as a slime-covered bolus of egg-like material with its forming tentacles barely visible. Eventually, the tentacles strain against their “egg” and burst outward, covered in a thick, black-brown goo that smells like rotting meat. The stench attracts nearby flies and other decomposers, which wander around on the surface of the tentacles, picking up spores that they drop elsewhere (basically pollination, as imagined by Clive Barker).

Potential Game Use:

Look. If you’re going to have something sprout up unexpectedly from the ground that looks like Cthulhu’s dust bunnies, you might as well lean all the way in. Something unclean has been here before. “Here” can be the site of some sort of horrible sacrifice, sacrilege, or slaughter, or it can just be a case of “wrong place at the wrong time.” As another straightforward combat encounter, it’s hard to beat a tentacled creature that can unpredictably reproduce from any spot on the ground, but the real challenge will come in the form of the creatures that are attracted to and defend the Supernatural Stinkhorn. Take this as an opportunity to drag out every gross monster you’ve ever wanted to use. Giant cockroaches? Go for it! Slime molds, gelatinous cubes, worms that walk? They’re all fair game, and they’re all making heart eyes at this festering mound of thrashing goop. Every successful strike results in everyone within 10 feet getting splashed with putrescence, triggering some sort of constitution-type roll to avoid either taking damage or losing the next round heaving breakfast onto the ground.

What’s more, who’s to say what characters who take damage from such an attack might not themselves be the source of the next infection?

Bioluminescent Fungi (~80 species)

Preeeeeeeety sure this is a Photoshop job, but you get the idea. Glowing mushrooms: They’re A Thing (TM).

I almost didn’t include bioluminescent fungi in this list. They’re such a cliche that it’s almost not worth it. But there are about 80 species of bioluminescent mushrooms, and that’s a pretty big chunk of the fungal kingdom to just leave out because everyone already knows about them. So, with that in mind, yes. Glowing mushrooms are real, and there are a bunch of them, and yes, they all look very, very cool. Do yourself a favor and do an image search of them sometime.

Potential Game Use:

Lighting is a sometimes-underutilized part of adventure and encounter design. I can’t count the number of modules and supplements I’ve read that treat lighting as sort of a throwaway — there’s almost always magical ambient lighting, or unexplained torches (which are, if you’re a sucker for verisimilitude, extremely unlikely), or sometimes no lighting at all. Which makes sense on a certain level — much like encumbrance or precise weapon details, not everyone likes thinking about and tracking questions of visibility in exploration or combat. However, I propose that if you’re looking for a quick and easy way of making things interesting in an otherwise bog-standard dungeon or cave, start caring about lighting. Have unseen things chittering in dark corners, or drips just out of eyesight, or things darting out of view as soon as the characters get too near.

Another consideration: do your players have darkvision? Of course they do. If it’s a fantasy game, pretty much everyone has darkvision. Things without eyes have darkvision. A soup tureen has darkvision in some rulesets. You know who doesn’t have darkvision though? The large group of frightened prisoners the characters may have just freed. Alternately, some puzzles or clues may only become visible when viewed under the light of a specific species of mushroom, the identification and gathering of which can be an encounter all by itself. For an extra “wow” factor, consider making a homemade blacklight to represent the mushroom’s glow, and using lemon juice to write a hidden clue, message, or even whole puzzle.

In Conclusion:

Fungi are really, really neat and can add to just about any fantasy game, above or below-ground. They’re terrifying, dangerous, delicious, poisonous, useful and frustrating in equal measure, and if you let them, they can give your game a touch of alien whimsy that few other things in the real world can. If you’ve enjoyed this article, come back in a couple of weeks for Part 2, where I give four more kinds of fungi you might want to use in your game.

In the meantime, do you think you’ll be using more mushrooms in your games? Do you have a favorite fungus (or a suggestion for me to cover in the next piece)? Let me know in the comments!

Further Reading:

Six Bizarre Things about Fungi : A cool, quick little article about the weirdness of fungi, prominently featuring three of the species that made this list (h/t Luke: thanks for the heads up!).

Mycophilia: Revelations from the Weird World of Mushrooms by Eugenia Bone. There aren’t a lot of books on mycology out there that aren’t aimed at mushroom hunters, farmers, or people looking for psychedelics. While this is an engaging and entertaining overview in a field that isn’t exactly crowded, I can’t entirely recommend this book, as it contains some flip statements about several vulnerable populations that have little if anything to do with fungi, and that kind of soured the read a bit for me. Your mileage may vary.

The Magic of Mushrooms. A documentary available in the US on Netflix (as of the time of this article), this fairly short but fun film walks you through the basics of fungal biology, as well as introducing some of the ways fungi may well shape our future. Fun, quick, and relentlessly British, I can’t recommend it highly enough for someone who likes documentaries.

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Was ‘pin money’ really for pins?

Q: An article in the Guardian about sexism in the workplace says, “Women are no longer routinely told to their faces that they’re only working for ‘pin money,’ that they should be ashamed of taking work from men with families to feed.” Where does the term “pin money” come from? Did it once refer literally to real pins?

A: No, “pin money” was never about pins in the ordinary sense of the word. The use of “pin” in this 17th-century expression makes it sound more demeaning than it actually was.

Today “pin money” simply means a trivial amount of money, perhaps enough for incidentals. And since the days of the Suffragists, it’s been used in a belittling way to demean the wages of working women.

But you’re asking about the historical meaning of “pin money,” which in its earliest sense meant “a (usually annual) sum allotted to a woman for clothing and other personal expenses; esp. such an allowance provided for a wife’s private expenditure,” to quote the Oxford English Dictionary.

The phrase was first recorded, the OED says, in a suit brought against Lord Leigh by Lady Leigh in 1674: “On difference between him and his lady about settlement of 200 l. [pounds] per annum, pin-mony” (from a document later collected in the legal digest English Reports in Law and Equity, 1908).

The dictionary’s second citation clearly demonstrates that “pin money” wasn’t about pins. In a scene from John Vanbrugh’s comedy The Relapse; or, Virtue in Danger, first performed in 1696, a young heiress and her nurse discuss the lady’s upcoming nuptials (we’re expanding the dialogue here):

Miss Hoyden: For this I must say for my Lord … he’s as free as an open House at Christmas. For this very Morning, he told me, I shou’d have two hundred a Year to buy Pins. Now, Nurse, if he gives me two hundred a Year to buy Pins; What do you think he’ll give me to buy fine Petticoats?

Nurse: A, my dearest. … These Londoners have got a Gibberidge [gibberish] with ’em, would confound a Gypsey. That which they call Pin-money, is to buy their Wives every thing in the varsal [whole] World, down to their very shoe-tyes: Nay, I have heard Folks say, That some Ladies, if they will have Gallants, as they call ’um; are forc’t to find them out of their Pin-money too.

We can’t resist adding this example from our own reading. Near the end of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mrs. Bennet congratulates her daughter Elizabeth, newly engaged to Mr. Darcy:

“Oh! my sweetest Lizzy! how rich and how great you will be! What pin money, what jewels, what carriages you will have!”

What did pins have to do with a woman’s personal expenses?

Oxford Dictionaries Online, a standard dictionary, says the “pin” here originally referred to a jeweled or ornamental fastener, and denoted a wife’s clothing and other personal expenses.

The OED, an etymological dictionary based on historical evidence, raises an interesting possibility: the French word for “pins,” épingles, had long been used in a related sense.

In 15th-century France the plural épingles meant a “gift given to a woman on completion of a business transaction with her husband.” And in the mid-17th-century the French used it to mean “money given to a woman in recognition of some service she has rendered.”

In English, the plural “pins” was used similarly in the 16th century, a century before the expression “pin money” was recorded in OED citations.

This example appears in a will made in 1542 by John Nevile, Lord Latimer: “I give my said doughter Margarett my lease of the parsonadge of Kirkdall Churche … to by her pynnes withal” (from Testamenta Eboracensia, Vol. VI, 1902, a selection of wills registered in York).

And in 1640, Richard Boyle, Earl of Cork, made this legacy: “Which Rent I haue bestowed on my daughter Mary to buy her pins” (from the earl’s diaries, autobiographical notes, and other writings, published as The Lismore Papers in 1886).

As you can see, the plural “pins” had a special meaning—a woman’s expenses—before “pin money” was first used to mean her personal funds.

And, as the dictionary’s citations show, the money involved (whether referred to as “pins” or “pin money”) was often considerable and was taken very seriously by the wealthy—and their lawyers.

This quotation is from William Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England (Vol. II, 1766): “If she has any pinmoney or separate maintenance, it is said she may dispose of her savings thereout by testament, without the control of her husband.”

The legal encyclopedia Halsbury’s Laws of England has this historical note in a 1979 edition, “Pin money was … usually provided for in a settlement by a yearly rent charge on the husband’s real estate.”

And in his book Road to Divorce: England, 1530-1987, Lawrence Stone writes: “By the terms of a divorce bill, the wife forfeited claim to a return of her marriage portion, and also to her pin-money.”

This meaning of “pin money” is described by the OED as “historical,” meaning that it’s a usage of the past. It faded away toward the end of the 19th century.

But the phrase survives, according to the OED, in an “extended use” that developed in the early 1700s: “a trivial amount of money; (also) spending money, esp. for inessential items and incidental expenses.”

The dictionary’s earliest example, dated 1702, is from A Compleat History of Europe, a multi-volume work by the Welsh writer David Jones: “I am ashamed to name for what a Pin Money his Books were sold.”

That extended sense is now the usual one, as seen in this more recent OED example: “That’s pin money for a company of Sears’ size, but every little bit helps these days” (Toronto Globe & Mail, Nov. 14, 1992).

The OED has no separate entry for a more specific, derogatory use of “pin money” that developed around the turn of the 20th century. In this sense, “pin money” was used to trivialize the earnings of working women as merely incidental to a family’s support.

For example, the phrase “pin-money clerk” was used to mean a woman who supposedly did office work to provide herself with trifles, not because she had to earn a living. The term cropped up during a time when Suffragists were campaigning not only for votes for women, but for wider employment of women.

In January 1912 a British quarterly, the Living Age, ran an article deploring the “disastrous” economic effects of Suffragists who encouraged more women to work outside the home: “The ‘pin-money clerk’ is blamed for the lowering of wage that cheap female labor has been responsible for in the clerical market.”

This notion was so deeply engrained that in November 1929, Britain’s Minister for Employment, J. H. Thomas, delivered what was later described as his “pin money speech.”

“It is not only uneconomic and unfair, but against the nation’s interests for women to work for what they call pin money, and deprive other people, of legitimate work,” he said. (The remark was reported in newspapers in Britain, Australia, and the US.)

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Seeing yourself having a balanced healthy lifestyle will go a long way in determining how long it will take to for it to become a realization. The clearer the vision, the easier it will be to create a plan to focus on the tasks needed to reach your goal. See yourself meditating, exercising and eating healthy everyday. See yourself being your natural weight. Envision yourself modeling healthy eating habits for your kids to emulate. Avoid having to take unnecessary medication. Understand the realities of work, leisure and family time. Create a realistic schedule in order to succeed even if it means thinking outside the box.

Regardless of person, most of us want the same thing; we want to be loved. We love music, our favorite sports teams, family, community, work and our faith. But do we love ourselves? Before we can truly love any of the latter we have to love ourselves and be proactive in so doing. It starts by seeing ourselves living life in a healthy range in regards to diet and exercise. We all think about what we have to do to lead better lives, but do we have a plan? Can we visualize a plan? Where do you see yourself in 4 years in regards to health, weight and emotional state? How are you managing work, family and me time? As you seek answers for these questions keep in mind to be alive is to connect with all living things around you. Most of us have an abundance of love and good intentions we want to share with the world. Begin with yourself and a clear vision of the best you possible. Once this starts to become a self fulfilling prophecy a light will start to glow from within you. As you take care of this light your glow will gradually encompass the room you're in. All the people around you will start to fell the warmth emanating from you. Soon all those around you will see it too. In time it will spill over into the streets reaching all your friends, family, neighbors and coworkers. Soon everyone will be exposed to the better you. As you leave your house you’ll be more in tuned with all living things around you. The trees, birds, plants and flowers will share the moment with you as you realize all living things are connected to the earth and share the same energy, love and good intentions the only difference is in terms of degrees. It all starts from within you and what you envision for yourself.

Gratitude

In 1998, I remember having dinner at my in-law’s home. My wife and both our immediate families were also present. It was during the winter holidays and I just received my first professional bonus. As I sat next to my wife at the dinner table, I daydreamed of all the additional things I would be able to buy. I also began planning purchases with next years bonus, projected to be even larger. At that moment my wife whispered to me, “this is the richest we will ever be”. Surprised, I asked her “what do you mean”? She replied, “They’re all here, both our mothers, fathers, siblings and your grandmother, the only one of your grandparents alive in your lifetime is right here with us now”. I was blown away how perceptive she was. I was so wrapped up daydreaming about money I wasn’t aware of the treasures being in the moment offered me.

Be grateful of the things sometimes overlooked or taken for granted like our health, family, past achievements, relations and opportunities. Appreciate the small things. When was the last time you got excited just because you’re able to walk? I’ve seen people who have lost both legs and become physically challenged while at the same time their will and outlook remain positive and intact. Have you ever start to dance because birds are singing by you? Go ahead, its alright to show your joy for life by busting a move while a bird sings. Lost your job? Change can seem scary but find the opportunity in the event. Utilize the new found availability in your schedule to start or complete a project that is near and dear to your heart.

Be thankful for the opportunities afforded to you even in tragedy. Unforeseen events like injuries caused by accident, death of a loved one and financial loss are undesirable, but nonetheless a part of life. Our emotional state is tested in these instances and how we react during these trying times can shape our lives and health. Appreciate the fact we have a choice of how to react in these difficult times. One choice is to become an advocate and promote awareness of preventive measures to reduce the frequency of such tragedies in the future. As for health, people who have been injured or have experienced tragedy can also visualize themselves living a healthy lifestyle. Envision yourself exercising regularly and making healthy food choices taking into account physical limitations and checking with your doctor which activities to avoid. With the passage of each day, appreciate how your vision is crystallizing and your plan of action is plain to see and in so doing we begin with a mental picture of the desired end in mind.

Motivated and focused

Having a plan and being positive are essential for reaching our healthy lifestyle range. The next step is to continually stay motivated, focused on the daily execution of your plan. In the past, despite my best efforts, I had a hard time staying motivated. Prior to going to sleep I would say to myself I’ll start tomorrow making healthy choices and go to a place I’ll refer to as Healthy Town. (Dream sequence)

In the morning things change. I wake up in the back of a cab, full of negative thoughts and excuses not to do as planned. The cabbie looks at me and ask, where to? I don’t say a word. After 5 minutes of silence, I exit the cab without the cab moving an inch. As I start to walk away from the taxi I tell myself, who cares life is random anyway. Would me taking the cab to Healthy Town really matter now that I know how things really are? So many terrible things happen to many undeserving people while others literally get away with murder. So why bother? I start to get hungry and want to get some breakfast. I walk into a diner, look at the menu embracing the randomness of life, order and eat a meal with no regards to nutrition, highly acidic and no attempt at moderation. After the meal, I feel awful, upset and disappointed.

Negative thoughts can be paralyzing and make you your own worst enemy. As I began to take notice of my thoughts and how I spoke, I realized how negative I was about most things. I was very judgmental and opinionated about things I’ve yet to try or experience. I also had no structure or strategy of how to reach my goal. I had no vision, no ideal or idea what I had to do. I knew I wanted to lose weight but I couldn’t articulate how? I felt powerless and somewhat depressed. Two months later, I caught a break. I got an email from my insurance company to renew my policy and the receptionist who sent it closed the email with a George Bernard Shaw quote:

“Some men see things as they are and say, why. I dream things that never were and say, why not.

In the weeks that followed I asked myself, why not be happy? Why not stop being judgmental? Why not stop being negative? Why not try new things? I also thought about my past and took responsibility for my poor choices and their consequences while embracing the lessons learned from these experiences. I owned my mistakes and acknowledged I enabled people to take advantage of me by not seeing what are now obvious flags or when obvious, not speaking up. My past insecurities prevented me from self reflecting and self regulating my behavior. I now know that the only things I can control are my actions and placing my hopes on the acts of others hoping they guess what I’m thinking or wishing for is foolish. Should I avoid certain people? No, be in the moment, don’t waste your time judging others from afar instead engage with all people who come in contact with you. Focus on expressing yourself clearly and when not in agreement with an individual, respectfully disagree. If someone uses words to try to offend you remind yourself what was said is not what bothers you, but your opinion of what was said is what bothered you. You have control over your opinions, use patience and silence in such instances. I’ve learned to express my emotions in a constructive and positive way. Instead of saying “hell no” I opt for “no, thank you”. Same outcome, less stress. Expressing my feelings in a constructive way regardless of my emotional state is ongoing work for me. I think that being in the moment, not being judgmental of others or myself is a good starting point.

Gradually, my confidence grew. I started thinking about my future and started to prioritize my time focusing on the things that are most important to me. I wanted to create a plan for myself which allowed me to make the most of my time with my family, work, friends and alone. I saw myself committing to a healthy lifestyle instead of a short term diet.

In April 2011 I set out to live in a way I could reach and maintain my natural weight range for my height (5”8) and frame of 175 - 180 pounds. We achieve our natural weight by eating in a healthy balanced way which makes your body feel nourished with the food you eat so you stop craving more. A married couple friends of mine (2006) had done a juice fast and ate raw vegan for 5 weeks and in the process lost 25 & 35 pounds respectively. Impressed by these results, I started eating raw vegan too in 2011. At first, I’d make green smoothies (kale, spinach, apple, banana). By day 10 I purchased a juicer (omega 8006) to reduce my sugar and fiber intake. By juicing, 95% of all the nutrients in fruits and vegetables are in it’s juice. By not having to digest the fibers, the nutrients in the juice work more efficiently.

Armed with a positive outlook I started to exercise too. I wanted an exercise routine I could do regardless of age. On prior occasions, I lost weight by running between 25 to 40 miles per week, only to see the weight return when I stopped running because of soreness, injury or laziness. I started walking a minimum of one hour in the morning and one hour after dinner. I decided to keep first things first as I envisioned my daily schedule. My health, family and work are my priorities. In order to get the walking in the morning, I changed my wake up time to 4:15am from 6am. All my other free time I spent with my family. My 5 minute commute from work makes dinner together possible more times than not. Everything and everyone else had to take a backseat. Today through daily meditation I free myself of all negative energy as I remind myself all things that I think are negative are not. The only thing that’s negative is my opinion of things. I forgive those who in the past would’ve annoyed me and in situations I get annoyed, I forgive myself for not controlling my opinion. Tonight, prior to going to sleep, say to yourself, I will start or continue making balanced healthy choices by living according to your plan (Dream sequence)

I wake up in the back of a cab again, full of positive thoughts. I’m in the moment and understand this is a dream and I’m in control of it’s outcome. I look at the rearview mirror and realize I’m also the cab driver. I give myself directions, arrive at my destination and exit the taxi. As I start to walk away from the taxi I ask myself, is life random? Yes it is! Why not make the most of the randomness of life by seizing every opportunity! Terrible things continue to happen to many undeserving people while others literally get away with murder. Though upsetting, these are things I can’t control. I focus my energy on the things under my power by following through with my daily plan of healthy living offsetting some of the negative occurrences in the world. I have love for myself and love for all. I get hungry and have my morning green juice.

The 4 Year Plan

In four years I see myself in front of my house being my natural weight spending time with my wife, daughter, family and friends. I see myself continue to pleasantly surprising my wife with acts of kindness and chivalry on our 22nd year of marriage. I will listen before talking and when I’m not sure of the meaning or significance of a topic I will ask for clarification regardless of how silly my question may seem to me. Professionally, I will manage Stoop Juice and let the quality of the fresh organic fruits and vegetables sell themselves. I will continuously seek to improve the customer’s experience by expediting orders promptly while introducing additional quality vegan options namely a line of vegan ice creams with up to 5 new flavors. I will continue to train, hire good people with positive attitudes who live close to store locations. I will continue to seek feedback and exchange stories with our regular and new customers. I will have one day off a week to share with my family, myself and friends. I will continue to add content to Stoop’s blog with two purposes, 1. I want to create content I can use to keep me motivated and enhance my healthy quality of life. 2. I want to share this information with the rest of the world with the hope others find it useful. Financially, my wife and I will continue on schedule with our savings plan and make adjustments to remedy any unforeseen events.

I wrote my 4 year plan in a constructively skeptical manner taking into account the randomness of life and all it’s uncertainties. Seek out opportunities that create a win-win situation that are inline with your vision of a healthy lifestyle. Communicate your needs as clearly as possible to get the most out of the opportunities you come across. Before trying to explain to people your vision of a healthy lifestyle, listen first to all the options each opportunity offers. Only look into opportunities inline with your healthy lifestyle. Below is an example of a lost opportunity because of poor communication:

There are two people in a kitchen. There is only one lime left and both of them want it. What would you expect as the solution? Compromise is one option. They might cut it in half and each gets half. Let's assume that's what they do. One person now goes to the juicer and starts squeezing herself 3 tablespoons lime juice realizing she needs 6 tablespoons for the drink being prepared. The other, with some difficulty, begins to grate the rind of the half lime to flavor a cake. Had they communicated their intended use of the lime both demands would’ve been easily met and created a win-win outcome.

In those instances opportunities present themselves that don’t promote your healthy lifestyle; simply say no thank you and proceed. The faster you learn to identify and utilize opportunities inline with your healthy lifestyle, the sooner your vision will become reality. The best opportunities are the one’s you create for yourself and have full control. For example, running is a wonderful way to exercise and teaming up with a person or a group would be inline with a healthy lifestyle. Creating a dependency on others to go running will reduce the number of opportunities you go running. Run with friends, but be ready to run by yourself if no one is available to run with you.

Daily Plan

My alarm rings at 4:15am to signal the start of my day. At 4:25am I start the 6 phase meditation (22 minutes)

1. Connection (See yourself for what we all are, a piece of consciousness directly connected to every other life form on the planet)

2. Gratitude (Know that when you express gratitude for beautiful moments in life, you open the way for these moments to repeat themselves and grow in terms of their magnitude)

3. Forgiveness (Know that at a deeper level we are one, and any negative charge towards any other living person is a charge against yourself)

4. Visualizing (As you wrap up, mentally tell yourself, let this or something better unfold in my life)

5. Daily Intention (Visualize yourself making today amazingly wonderful too)

6. Blessings (Know that you create your own luck and the universe has your back)

As I meditate my daily intentions, I visualize how my day is going to be from start to finish making sure my habits are inline with my 4 year plan. I visualize finishing my meditation, doing 150 sit-ups, getting dressed, selecting a playlist on my phone, go swimming at the 9th street Y for an hour, returning home, walking the dog, tending to my daughter, showering and getting dressed.

When school is in session I wake up my daughter after walking the dog, we both get ready for the day and have breakfast. On the ride to school my daughter and I will catch up free of smartphones or other electronic devices. After drop off, I walk to Stoop Juice, set up, have 32 ounces of green juice and open for business. I see myself enjoying conversation with new and regular customers, making juices, smoothies and acai bowls. When no one is in the shop and everything is setup I work on content for the Stoop blog, research new purchases like new counter refrigerator for organic vegan ice cream. I see myself doing time and motion studies with new product offering in order to make sure the new offerings can be prepared as promptly as possible. I envision my wife and I having our daily midday phone conversations to make sure we’re on the same page regarding all things happening in our daughter’s life. After work, I see myself having dinner, spend time with my wife and daughter, help my daughter with homework, going for my walk with the dog, shower get to bed and repeat the following morning.

The images of my routine while meditating daily motivates me, give me clarity, structure, keeps me focused on my goals, creating a mental blue print that rejuvenates my soul. I remind myself that I’m a spirit with a body not a body with a spirit. I can be what I will to be!

Faith

Out of the billions of people in the world the person I least trust is myself. I can walk away, ignore anybody with negative thoughts. When I have similar thoughts, I’m unable to walk away. Instead, my negative thoughts are self imposed barriers which prevent me from visualizing a plan to reach my goal. Back in 2011, I lost 70 pounds in 120 days after experiencing a paradigm shift in how I saw myself in relationship to external things. The realization I’ll always be both my own best friend and worst enemy are with me everyday keeping me modest, humble and receptive to learning new things. My confidence comes from managing my internal uncertainties. My first step is to have a clear and defined vision of a healthy lifestyle with a focus on things I can control. Since I don’t rely on externals, I seek to create new habits and continue to replace bad habits with new ones inline with my vision.

The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg explains a simple three-step process that all habits follow. This cycle, known as The Habit Loop, says that each habit consists of…

The Trigger: the event that starts the habit.

The Routine: the behavior that you perform, the habit itself.

The Reward: the benefit that is associated with the behavior.

Each phase of the loop is important for building new habits, but the first factor: habit triggers is were self-motivation blossoms.

There are five primary ways that a new habit can be triggered. If you understand each of them, then you can select the right one for the particular habit that you are working on.

The 5 triggers are:

Trigger 1: Time

Trigger 2: Location

Trigger 3: Preceding Event

Trigger 4: Emotional State

Trigger 5: Other People

No matter what trigger you choose for your new habit, there is one important thing to understand. The key to choosing a successful trigger is to pick a trigger that is very specific and immediately actionable. For example, let’s say you want to build a new habit of drinking a green juice every morning. You might start by choosing a time-based trigger and saying something like, “I’ll drink 32 ounces of green juice in the morning.” This might work, but it’s not very specific. Do you drink your juice at the beginning of your morning? At the end? Any time?

Alternatively, you could create a trigger around a very specific preceding event that happens right around your morning. For example, “When I finish brushing my teeth, I’ll drink my green juice.” In this case, the very specific action of “brushing your teeth” is a perfect trigger for what to do next (drink your green juice). There is no mistaking when you should do the new habit.

As always, self-experimentation is the only real answer. Play around with these five habit triggers and see what help you realize your vision of a healthy lifestyle.

#motivated

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American Shithole #11 — Scott Pruitt: Ambien From Oklahoma

By Eric Wilson

“I don’t want to write about these bloviating, Machiavellian fuckfaces this week!” I raged, as Monday morning slid unproductively into Monday afternoon. I nervously plucked at my guitar while watching the news cycle blitzkrieg on my monitor a few feet away — a now daily ritual.

Mostly, I love writing this column. Some days though…

Later, from underneath the covers, I howled the muffled words “I don’t want to write about these soul-sucking servants of the shitgibbon every seven days for seven more years!” as I buried myself under a mountain of pillows.

On Wednesday I cried, “I’m staring into the void!” as I fumbled around my closet looking for a comfortable pair of pants. There was no reply from the darkness within.

“You’re fine,” I finally thought to myself, “you’re just reading too much about that conniving motherfucker, Scott Pruitt.”

Ugh, Scott Pruitt — bane of the Environmental Protection Agency. I never would have imagined that someone could actually bore me to death. Is this how he's killing the environment? Is he boring it to death?

He is a slow internet connection personified.

I’ve read nearly 50 articles about the head of the EPA over the last few days, along with ingesting and digesting a fair amount of CNN coverage about the man — and I was uncharacteristically disinterested with all of it.

Even writers for the New Yorker and the New York Times were unable to capture my attention, as they, too, failed to bring color and life to a man will all the charm and allure of an abandoned Porta Potty.

It was the most painful slog so far, and I’ve already spent a week reading about Stephen Miller!

Never has there been a more boring villain in the Trump rogue’s gallery, than this litigious Jesus freak. Reading a bio piece on Scott Pruitt is like reading a 40-page white paper on the chemical properties of Vaseline.

I have been distracted this past week; I admit that could be part of it. A week dominated by the dangerous surgery my father was forced to undertake. (I love you, dad! Get well soon.)

But this Pruitt goon is just such an ordinary, run-of-the-mill bad guy that he can’t compete with the hyperbolic carnival barkers and legitimately terrifying shadow figures that have all come out of the woodwork. I fell asleep reading about him two nights in a row, and I’ve successfully read Moby Dick!

Okay, I haven’t. Fuck that tome. But you get the point.

In the age of comic supervillains, Pruitt comes off less like an evil genius, and more like a creepy office temp — the kind of guy that’s always looking at you when you happen to glance in their general direction.

Stop creeping on me Pruitt!

Conversely, if Pruitt were a superhero, you would find yourself constantly asking what his powers were. He’s just sort of, there. If the Trump administration were the Avengers, Pruitt would be Hawkeye.

I can just imagine eavesdropping on the conversations about Trump’s Avengers at Comic-Con:

“So what’s this Pruitt character do again?”

“He furthers the conservative agenda from within his department, he abuses housing, finance and travel privileges on the tax payer’s dime, and in general he behaves like a bought and paid for horse’s ass, born of the cronyism era of political yore.”

“So basically, he’s just a republican.”

“Yes. One that can skewer libruls with a nifty composite bow, and also turn invisible.”

“C’mon now, he can’t turn invisible, he’s just really, really boring.”

“Yes, but if his boringness results in what would effectively be invisibility, then that should be considered a power.”

“I disagree. That would be like saying…”

Ah, Comic-Con. How I long for your Nerdspeak. Someday I shall find you as crowded, overpriced and befouled by virgin body odor as I imagine you to be…

I managed to read enough about Pruitt — through caffeine-assisted focus — to understand that he is clearly another incompetent and grossly overconfident fool within this administration. They are all terrible fools, but some of them are so spectacularly inept in their villainy. Following the lead of Trump’s almost laughable bungling of everything he touches, I suppose.

What kind of fucking idiot disobeys this White House when they expressly forbid you to give lavish salary increases to friends in your department? What kind of numbskull defies this president by circumventing the law with an obscure loophole via the Safe Drinking Water Act to get two buddies roughly an extra 70K a year?

What kind of muttonhead lies about a private email account used for communications with his ties to the oil and gas industry, during the Senate confirmation hearings on his appointment to the EPA? – a crime itself.

What kind of fool perfectly positioned to dismantle Obama era EPA initiatives and regulations — something he’s worked years to accomplish — breaks the law by accepting the gift of cheap D.C. housing as quid pro quo for awarding a lucrative pipeline contract?

The boring, invisible kind of fool, apparently.

“So what’s his origin story?”

I’ll handle this, Comic-Con nerds.

Scott Pruitt is a lawyer (J.D.) and politician from Oklahoma, so his origin story is that he’s a good ol’ boy. I lived in Oklahoma for four miserable years in my youth, and if there’s a barren and lifeless place filled with more wingnuts and whackadoodles, I have not seen it.

I do not wish to ever visit such a place.

Here is a brief aside offering insight into the mindset of Oklahoma’s educational system. When I was in sixth grade in Oklahoma, they gave the incoming class various aptitude tests, and then separated the exceptionally high-scoring kids from the herd, to be educated elsewhere, along with the children exhibiting behavioral problems. I have always found it interesting that the troublemakers and the intellectually gifted were considered the same in that cultural backwater.

That was 40 years ago. I couldn’t possibly imagine what Oklahoma’s public schools have devolved into today. Oh wait, yes I can imagine, as the teachers for the entire state are on strike, due to the gross undervaluing of their services, among other indecencies and injustice.

Pruitt wasn’t formally educated in Oklahoma, he grew up in Kentucky, but you couldn’t possibly care about that, dear reader. I certainly didn’t. He moved to Tulsa in the early '90s, but no one really cares about that either. Or that he was a State Senator and then Oklahoma’s Attorney General. Zzzzzzz. Boring. He’s the Benadryl of Evil.

His whole life story is boring as shit.

I hope he gets fired so that at the very least, I never have to read about him again. Reading about this stone-faced conservative boor actually made me care less about the environment he so desperately wants to destroy; so please universe, no more Pruitt.

Unless I have insomnia, then get me that bio, pronto.

He is dangerous though, and he certainly seemed devious from the get-go. Not only did he spend several thousand dollars sweeping his new offices for bugs, he also built a super-spy silent phone booth in his office with 43K of tax payer funds.

I’ll save you all the usual links; trust me on this one, I did the fucking reading for you, and I am a less-interesting man for the effort.

There is a lot of conjecture over whether or not Pruitt is next on the chopping block. Opinions are all over the place on this one, so I’ll throw in my two cents. If he were from a family of billionaires, I would say no, he stays. This is one of the reasons DeVos will be around for a while. Pruitt is not from upper-crust wealth though. Trump ultimately sees the Pruitt types of the world as lesser, and therefore expendable; and considering the amount of bad press he’s generating for the administration, well, Trump has gotten rid of people for far less.

So, unless the heat dies down, its adios, you boring motherfucker!

Breaking News: Pruitt on the controversial pay raises for his staff: My staff did it, not me!

Here's Pruitt hammering nails into his own coffin Wednesday evening, and in an environment you would expect to be simpatico. This is a FOX News interview with Ed Henry, no less. My new prediction is he is gone by the time this posts Thursday.

B.S. Report

In case you missed it, another conservative talking head looked to belittle one of the Parkland survivors in the digital arena — this time it was Laura Ingraham gunning for David Hogg. She was outmatched. She came damn close to losing her show.

These assholes are dropping out of elections, losing advertisers — losing their jobs — every damn time they say some evil shit about these kids. THAT is power. That is their own beloved capitalism biting them in the fucking ass. Taking out a good chunk. How’d you like them apples, Laura Ingraham? I’d wager you shit your spanks when those advertisers started dropping like flies. I bet your knees were shaking like twigs in the breeze when the boys from the FOX News home office called to inform you if you still had a job.

So this goes out to all of the Fox News family, and their ilk.

Enjoy scrutinizing and fretting over every miserable fucking thing you used to be able to say with impunity — for the rest of your miserable lives — you overvalued, right-wing, shitgibbon-blowing, squawk-box media whores.

You sold out our country for ratings, and eventually America is going to make you pay for that, dearly.

#Scott Pruitt #Oklahoma Teachers Strike #Laura Ingraham #David Hogg

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"There are huge amounts of manageable home developed brands that I float towards, which right presently fundamentally work through their sites and Instagram pages. Rearranging Suitcases, Okhai, Pot Plant Clothing to give some examples." Indian Destinations Will Make Gains Aside from Ajio, Myntra and Nykaa additionally appear to be well known among style bloggers. YouTuber Malvika Sitlani, who has more than five lakh adherents on YouTube and just shy of four lakh on Instagram, is known for her cosmetics instructional exercises. She stated, "I love Myntra. I shop a great deal on that application and it has some great stuff on there. I additionally suggest Nykaa - my one-stop look for everything cosmetics, and now style since they do have Nykaafashion." "I think bloggers are going to discover increasingly nearby brands. I accept we have passed up some extremely gifted fashioners/brands in light of the fact that Shein and Club Factory were everywhere. As it were, it will allow these brands to flourish more. Myntra pulls, Nykaa design pulls are a few things we can concentrate on." Sitlani revealed to Gadgets 360. Patil likewise feels that homegrown brands may see some permeability, and furthermore, that pull recordings from Ajio, Myntra, Amazon, H&M, and Zara may increment. She said she is likewise anticipating do road pulls and is considering hitting Bandra Linking Road and Colaba Causeway when the lockdown lifts. YouTuber Sejal Kumar additionally said that she intends to be more innovative and repurpose her old garments. She has even made another Fashion Basics arrangement on her YouTube channel to enable her devotees to get roused. "I for one would concentrate on repurposing what I as of now have and indicating it in another and innovative manner," Kumar said. "I have begun a style nuts and bolts arrangement utilizing things I have had for quite a long time." She likewise plans to team up additional with Indian brands and creators that merit the acknowledgment, Kumar said. She has more than 10 lakh endorsers on YouTube and just shy of eight lakh devotees on Instagram, and needs to open this crowd to new brands. ALSO SEE TikTok Censored: Follow This Means To Download All Videos From Your Account TikTok Arab Spring Moment In The US After Teen Protest Takes Over The Dances TikTok Ban: Artists Urges Users To Support Them On Instagram, Youtube Here's Everything You Should Know About The Up And Down of The TikTok Ratings TikTok Reacts After Ban In India, Claims User Privacy Is Maximum Significance TikTok CEO Talks About Ban In A Communication To India TikTok Is Now Completely Offline In India, Claims 'The Directive On Compliance With Law' Chingari App Users Effect Raises After TikTok Ban In India, Recognises 10 Lakh Views In 30 Mins Eventually, the boycott of Shein or Club Factory will affect these substance makers, however, the boycott of TikTok is the thing that will have a greater amount of an impact, for the numerous individuals who were dependent on the stage to contact a group of people. "Some of them have endeavored to pick up the accompanying that they have picked up, and as a kindred maker, I can't envision having my essential stage being detracted from me instantly," Sitlani said. "Youtube and Instagram gave me the existence I'm living today and it has allowed me to show my specialty. I can't envision what Tiktokers are experiencing as of now, a great deal of them may be utilizing this application to put food on their table." For Regular & Fastest Tech News and Reviews, Follow TECHNOXMART on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Google News and Subscribe Here Now. By Subscribing You Will Get Our Daily Digest Headlines Every Morning Directly In Your Email Inbox. 【Join Our Whatsapp Group Here】

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American Shithole #11 — Scott Pruitt: Ambien From Oklahoma

By Eric Wilson

Mostly, I love writing this column. Some days though…

On Wednesday I cried, “I’m staring into the void!” as I fumbled around my closet looking for a comfortable pair of pants. There was no reply from the darkness within.

“You’re fine,” I finally thought to myself, “you’re just reading too much about that conniving motherfucker, Scott Pruitt.”

He is a slow internet connection personified.

It was the most painful slog so far, and I’ve already spent a week reading about Stephen Miller!

I have been distracted this past week; I admit that could be part of it. A week dominated by the dangerous surgery my father was forced to undertake. (I love you, dad! Get well soon.)

Okay, I haven’t. Fuck that tome. But you get the point.

Stop creeping on me Pruitt!

I can just imagine eavesdropping on the conversations about Trump’s Avengers at Comic-Con:

“So what’s this Pruitt character do again?”

“So basically, he’s just a republican.”

“Yes. One that can skewer libruls with a nifty composite bow, and also turn invisible.”

“C’mon now, he can’t turn invisible, he’s just really, really boring.”

“Yes, but if his boringness results in what would effectively be invisibility, then that should be considered a power.”

“I disagree. That would be like saying…”

Ah, Comic-Con. How I long for your Nerdspeak. Someday I shall find you as crowded, overpriced and befouled by virgin body odor as I imagine you to be…

The boring, invisible kind of fool, apparently.

“So what’s his origin story?”

I’ll handle this, Comic-Con nerds.

I do not wish to ever visit such a place.

His whole life story is boring as shit.

Unless I have insomnia, then get me that bio, pronto.

I’ll save you all the usual links; trust me on this one, I did the fucking reading for you, and I am a less-interesting man for the effort.

So, unless the heat dies down, its adios, you boring motherfucker!

Breaking News: Pruitt on the controversial pay raises for his staff: My staff did it, not me!

B.S. Report

So this goes out to all of the Fox News family, and their ilk.

You sold out our country for ratings, and eventually America is going to make you pay for that, dearly.

#Scott Pruitt #Oklahoma Teachers Strike #Laura Ingraham #David Hogg

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PowerLine -> The silence of Susan Rice vs. Susan Rice responds, sort of

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Nunes responds

Rebut this

The silence of Susan Rice

“Bubbles of Our Own Liberal Sentiments”

Susan Rice responds, sort of

Nunes responds

Posted: 24 Feb 2018 02:21 PM PST

(Scott Johnson)House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes was ready to go with his own response to the Democrats’ memo that I have embedded in the adjacent post. I have uploaded his point-by-point response to Scribd and embedded it below. It is a useful document. Moreover, by contrast with Adam Schiff et al., Nunes is a credible player. Consistent with my comments, he notes some of the Democrats’ rebuttals of points not made by the Republicans. In any event, here is his response.

Democrat Memo Charge and Response by Scott Johnson on Scribd

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Rebut this

Posted: 24 Feb 2018 02:01 PM PST

(Scott Johnson)The powers that be have redacted and released the House Intelligence Committee Democrats’ memo rebutting the committee Republicans’ four-page memo. In a quick reading, among other things, I find it rebutting claims that weren’t made. The Democrats vouch for the credibility of Christopher Steele when the only relevant question is the credibility of his sources. The Democrats also challenge just about every point made by the Republicans.

The Democrats are overinvested in the synthetic collusion scandal. They stand by all the works of the Department of Justice and the FBI. To borrow a phrase attributed by Susan Rice to President Obama, they did everything strictly by the book. According to the Democrats, Carter Page deserves what he got. One wonders how it is that he remains a free man.

There is some new information provided. The FISA warrant on Carter Page was authorized and renewed three times by four different federal judges (see page 3). In a heavily redacted portion of the memo, the Democrats go to town on Page (pages 3-5). I infer from guarded comments made to the press by committee Republicans that there may be something to this. Chairman Nunes has released the statement below.

Nunes Statement on Release of Democrat Memo with point by point refutation. https://t.co/JjXyslktSz pic.twitter.com/P7UaGEQVsE

— Nick Short 🇺🇸 (@PoliticalShort) February 24, 2018

There is much more that could be said. We badly need the FISA warrant application and related representations in renewal proceedings redacted and released. As always, I urge interested readers to review the documents with your own eyes. I have uploaded the memo to Scribd and embedded it below.

House Dems’ Intel Memo by Scott Johnson on Scribd

The silence of Susan Rice

Posted: 24 Feb 2018 09:13 AM PST

(Scott Johnson)By letter to Susan Rice dated February 8, 2018, Senators Grassley and Graham posed 12 numbered questions. I posted the Graham/Grassley letter in “Rice papers the file.” By letter dated February 23, 2018, attorney Kathryn Ruemmler has now responded to the Grassley Graham letter. I posted Ruemmler’s letter nearby this morning in “Susan Rice responds, sort of.”

Let’s take an inventory. I have italicized my accounting below, subject to further thought and analysis:

Question 1. Did you send the email attached to this letter to yourself? Do you have any reason to dispute the timestamp of the email?

Answered.

Question 2. When did you first become aware of the FBI’s investigation into allegations of collusion between Mr. Trump’s associates and Russia?

Not answered.

Question 3. When did you become aware of any surveillance activities, including FISA applications, undertaken by the FBI in conducting that investigation? At the time you wrote this email to yourself, were you aware of either the October 2016 FISA application for surveillance of Carter Page or the January 2017 renewal?

Partially answered.

Question 4. Did anyone instruct, request, suggest, or imply that you should send yourself the aforementioned Inauguration Day email memorializing President Obama’s meeting with Mr. Comey about the Trump/Russia investigation? If so, who and why?

Partially answered.

Question 5. Is the account of the January 5, 2017, meeting presented in your email accurate? Did you omit any other portions of the conversation?

Not answered.

Question 6. Other than that email, did you document the January 5, 2017, meeting in any way, such as contemporaneous notes or a formal memo? To the best of your knowledge, did anyone else at that meeting take notes or otherwise memorialize the meeting?

Not answered.

Question 7. During the meeting, did Mr. Comey or Ms. Yates mention potential press coverage of the Steele dossier? If so, what did they say?

Answered narrowly (“In the conversation Ambassador Rice documented, there was no discussion of Christopher Steele or the Steele dossier, contrary to the suggestion in your letter”).

Question 8. During the meeting, did Mr. Comey describe the status of the FBI’s relationship with Mr. Steele or the basis for that status?

Answered narrowly (see above).

Question 9. When and how did you first become aware of the allegations made by Christopher Steele?

Not answered.

Question 10. When and how did you first become aware that the Clinton Campaign and the Democratic National Committee funded Mr. Steele’s efforts?

Not answered.

Question 11. You wrote that President Obama stressed that he was not asking about, initiating or instructing anything from a law enforcement perspective. Did President Obama ask about, initiate, or instruct anything from any other perspective relating to the FBI’ s investigation?

Not answered.

Question 12. Did President Obama have any other meetings with Mr. Corney, Ms. Yates, or other government officials about the FBI’ s investigation of allegations of collusion between Trump associates and Russia? If so, when did these occur, who participated, and what was discussed?

Not answered.

Susan Rice has lawyered up. For some reason or other, with respect to several pointed and important questions, she is resting on her right to remain silent.

“Bubbles of Our Own Liberal Sentiments”

Posted: 24 Feb 2018 08:35 AM PST

(Joe Malchow)I think that I am like most American men in, every five or ten years, directing my reading deep into the Revolution and the Founding generation. It is impossible to resist the magnetic attraction of this period. It is not that the Founding Fathers were geniuses (though some were) or gods (though one was close). Instead, there seems to be something about the vacuum of the founding moment and the men who filled it that gave rise to a decades-long period of writing, speechmaking, and statecraft that was benevolent, intelligent, honest, and crafted to secure a true durability. Therefore these men, whose brains weren’t of course any better than the brains today, were so much less molested by self-deception, pieties, lore, and loyalties that they produced world-changing thought transcending everything else then existing.

It is a worthy subject for a later time why the American founding moment was so exceptional in human history. To be sure there have been many founding moments since, from Africa to Italy and many places otherwise. Mostly their results have been very sad. I wonder if it had something to do with the generalist liberal arts education received by most of the participants at the Continental Congresses, the Constitutional Convention, and the later House of Burgesses. There were lawyers, of course, and at least a few doctors (Benjamin Rush and Josiah Bartlett. Anyone else?). But by and large, they were well-read non-experts and family men. I imagine that today, Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School would be happy to supply your fledgling country with all manner Experts bearing Ph. D.s., each without the annoying encumbrance of a traditional family life or the cruft of knowing, say, Plato.

Anyway, here is something that John Adams wrote to Thomas Jefferson on September 4, 1785. Adams was in London and Jefferson was in Paris. It comes from American Sphinx by Joseph J. Ellis, who prefaces the lines I wanted to share.

In addition to their mutual animosities toward England and their common sense of indignation at the insufferable arrogance of the king, the friendship worked because Jefferson deferred to Adams. After all, Adams was his senior and had been negotiating with the French and English for five years. Jefferson’s deferential pattern began as soon as he arrived in France: “What would you think of the enclosed Draught to be proposed to the courts of London and Versailles?” Jefferson inquired. “I know it goes beyond our powers; and beyond the powers of Congress too. But it is so evidently for the good of the states that I should not be afraid to risk myself on it if you are of the same opinion.” The proposal envisioned reciprocal rights for citizens of all nations, complete freedom of trade and a reformed system of international law.

Yes, Adams replied, it was a “beau ideal” proposal, but unfortunately it was also completely irrelevant to the current, and cutthroat, European context: “We must not, my Friend, be the Bubbles of our own Liberal Sentiments. If we cannot obtain reciprocal Liberality, We must adopt reciprocal Prohibitions, Exclusions, Monopolies, and Imposts. Our offers have been fair, more than fair. If they are rejected, we must not be Dupes.”

I read that highlighted quotation from Adams and thought: only one modern politician would say something like that, and he is Donald Trump.

By the way, I returned to my books on the Founding this time because of the Broadway show Hamilton, which we have had the good fortune to see twice. It’s truly a wonderful work. (For a glimpse of why here are five random American teenagers reenacting the Act I song “Non-Stop.”)

Susan Rice responds, sort of

Posted: 24 Feb 2018 07:12 AM PST

(Scott Johnson)Barack Obama installed Susan Rice as his National Security Advisor in recognition of her service to him as a knave and fool in the matter of Benghazi. As National Security Advisor she sent an email on Obama’s last day in office shortly before President Trump inauguration. Released in redacted form on February 12, the email is one of the most intriguing bits of evidence to have emerged in the alleged Russian collusion scandal. The email purports to memorialize January 5, 2017, Oval Office meeting including President Obama, Comey, former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, Vice President Biden and Rice herself regarding Russian interference in the 2016 election. What a crew.

Rice wrote:

President Obama began the conversation by stressing his continued commitment to ensuring that every aspect of this issue is handled by the Intelligence and law enforcement communities “by the book.” The President stressed that he is not asking about, initiating or instructing anything from a law enforcement perspective. He reiterated that our law enforcement team needs to proceed as it normally would by the book.

As part of their oversight efforts, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Grassley and subcommittee chairman Graham obtained the email from the National Archives in response to their request for records of meetings between President Obama and Comey in the collusion investigation. Rice sent the email to herself with a copy to Curtis Ried (Twitter feed here) on January 20, 2017. Grassley and Graham were struck by the context and timing of this email and sent a follow-up letter to Rice. The letter reads in part:

It strikes us as odd that, among your activities in the final moments on the final day of the Obama administration, you would feel the need to send yourself such an unusual email purporting to document a conversation involving President Obama and his interactions with the FBI regarding the Trump/Russia investigation. In addition, despite your claim that President Obama repeatedly told Mr. Comey to proceed “by the book,” substantial questions have arisen about whether officials at the FBI, as well as at the Justice Department and the State Department, actually did proceed “by the book.”

According to the email, the meeting further took up the question whether Trump could be trusted with “information fully as it relates to Russia.” Andrew McCarthy authoritatively explicated Rice’s email in the NR column “What Did Comey Tell President Trump about the Steele Dossier?”

Susan Rice has now responded to Senators Grassley and Graham through attorney Kathryn Ruemmler. Ruemmler is the global co-chairman of the Latham & Watkins white collar criminal defense practice. She formerly served as White House Counsel to Obama.

Ruemmler’s letter on behalf of Rice asserts that denies that there was anything unusual about Rice’s email purporting to memorialize a crucial meeting two weeks after the meeting had occurred, on her way out the door. Ruemmler’s letter on behalf of Rice states:

The memorandum to file drafted by Ambassador Rice memorialized an important national security discussion between President Obama and the FBI Director and the Deputy Attorney General. President Obama and his national security team were justifiably concerned about potential risks to the Nation’s security from sharing highly classified information about Russia with certain members of the Trump transition team, particularly Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn.

In light of concerning communications between members of the Trump team and Russian officials, before and after the election, President Obama, on behalf of his national security team, appropriately sought the FBI and the Department of Justice’s guidance on this subject. In the conversation Ambassador Rice documented, there was no discussion of Christopher Steele or the Steele dossier, contrary to the suggestion in your letter.

Given the importance and sensitivity of the subject matter, and upon the advice of the White House Counsel’s Office, Ambassador Rice created a permanent record of the discussion. Ambassador Rice memorialized the discussion on January 20, because that was the first opportunity she had to do so, given the particularly intense responsibilities of the National Security Advisor during the remaining days of the Administration and transition.

Ambassador Rice memorialized the discussion in an email sent to herself during the morning of January 20, 2017. The time stamp reflected on the email is not accurate, as Ambassador Rice departed the White House shortly before noon on January 20.

While serving as National Security Advisor, Ambassador Rice was not briefed on the existence of any FBI investigation into allegations of collusion between Mr. Trump’s associates and Russia, and she later learned of the fact of this investigation from Director Comey’s subsequent public testimony. Ambassador Rice was not informed of any FISA applications sought by the FBI in its investigation, and she only learned of them from press reports after leaving office.

Ruemmler’s statement goes on offense about “concerning” discussions intercepted by Rice’s colleagues at the NSA along with the “distraction” routine practiced by lying Democratic liars. Ruemmler serves up a lame excuse for the tardiness of Rice’s email and slyly inserts a reference to the advice of White House Counsel. In substance, however, Ruemmler’s statement cries “nobody here but us chickens,” just as Rice’s email itself did. There seems to be a postmodern echo in here.

The Grassley/Graham letter posed 12 numbered questions to Rice. I posted the Grassley/Graham letter and the appended Rice email via Scribd in “Susan Rice papers the record.” Ruemmler’s letter to Senators Grassley et al. is embedded below. By my reckoning, Ruemmler’s letter answers to question 1, part of question 4, and narrowly responds to one or two others with a dollop of the Obama defense (she learned about it in the newspapers). For some reason or other — no excuse is offered on this score — Ruemmler’s letter declines to answer the rest of the questions submitted to Rice.

Susan Rice Response to Grassley-Graham by sonamsheth on Scribd

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7 Things I’ve Learned So Far, by Margaret Greenberg

“7 Things I’ve Learned So Far” (this installment written by Margaret Greenberg, co-author of PROFIT FROM THE POSITIVE) is a recurring column where writers at any stage of their career can talk about writing advice and instruction, as well as how they got their literary agent—by sharing seven things they’ve learned along their writing journey that they wish they knew at the beginning.

1. You Don’t Have to Go It Alone

You’ve probably heard nightmares about collaborating with other authors. What you may not know is that collaborating on a book can be an enriching experience like it was for my co-author, Senia Maymin, and me. Why? Because we have complementary strengths. She was good at doing the research; I was good at translating it. She was good at looking at the book structure holistically; I was good at breaking the structure into smaller chunks. Her best writing time was in the evenings; mine was in the morning. We both agreed to a weekly afternoon conference call (we are in two different time zones) to check-in on progress and scope out our work for the next week. Before you ask just anyone to collaborate with you, be sure to talk about how you will work together. I also recommend that you each complete a strengths assessment, such as StrengthsFinder, so you have a language to talk about your similarities and differences. The added bonus of having a co-author? Whenever doubt crept in for one of us, the other would play coach to get her co-author back on track. Grit, perseverance, stick-to-itiveness—whatever you want to call it—is needed to see a challenging project through to completion, but moral support is the balloon that lifts your spirits along the way.

Margaret H. Greenberg is a certified executive coach and the co-author of the best seller Profit from the Positive: Proven Leadership Strategies to Boost Productivity and Transform Your Business (McGraw-Hill Professional, 2013) which has been translated into Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Last year her book was developed into a Certificate Program, which is rated among the top 11 positive psychology courses you can take online. She delivers keynotes and workshops at Google and other companies, associations, and universities around the world. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Hartford, and a Masters of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania She also co-authors the Positive Work column for Live Happy Magazine, and is a regular contributor on LinkedIn. Follow her on Twitter @ProfitBook.

2. Just Write

Although I had published a dozen or so articles, I knew nothing about writing a book. Some people would buy a book about writing a book (do you know there are over 900 of them on Amazon?) before embarking on such an endeavor. Instead, I took the sage advice of my dear friend and author, Gina Greenlee, who said, “Just start writing and keep writing until you find your voice.”

Senia and I wrote. And wrote. And then wrote some more. Then we had an opportunity to show a sample chapter to someone in the publishing industry who told us, “thanks, but no thanks,” informing us that the material had already been covered in other positive psychology books. Rather than ruminating over the rejection (OK, we did for a little bit), we realized that he was right—the positive psychology slant had been covered before. But we were not aiming to write a positive psychology book. We were aiming to write a business leadership book. That was a nice AHA moment and gave us the psychological kick in the pants we needed to keep writing.

3. Same Time, Same Place

According to Columbia researcher Dr. Peter Gollwitzer, you are nearly twice as likely to accomplish your work if you decide in advance when and where you will do it. I am a big believer and practitioner of creating writing habits. Start by setting aside just 15 minutes, once a week, but try to choose the same day of the week, the same time, and the same place. Over time you will get so into your writing that minutes will turn into hours. Find out more about Gollwitzer’s study and my writing habits in Chapter 1: The Productive Leader in Profit from the Positive.

4. Create a Writing Ritual

As excited as you might be about writing your book, sometimes you just don’t feel like writing. There is always something you could do instead such as throw in a load of laundry, call a friend, or read a GLA blog post. Instead of succumbing to other temptations or distractions, create a writing ritual. For me it is putting on my writing clothes—comfy cotton pants and a comfy t-shirt. No shoes. In her bestselling book, Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits to Our Everyday Lives, habits guru Gretchen Rubin writes about how we sabotage ourselves with tomorrow logic—“I’ll start _____ tomorrow.” You can insert just about anything you want to start, including writing a book. Quit sabotaging yourself and start working on your book today.

5. Write With Your Specific Audience In Mind

After many months of writing we sent a couple of chapters out to a handful of readers—not positive psychology academics, but our target audience: business leaders at companies large and small. Feedback started trickling in—some good, some not so good. Then it occurred to us that we had had it all backwards. We had started with the positive psychology research and looked at where it applies to the business world. Wrong! We needed to start with the challenges business leaders face and then offer positive psychology as one of the solutions.

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6. Know When Almost Good Enough is Good Enough

For four years we kept writing and getting more reader feedback. In the meantime, life happened. My eldest daughter graduated from college, my youngest from high school, and my consulting and coaching practice was at full tilt. My co-author had her life changes, too, including having her first baby and completing her Ph.D at Stanford. Finding time to work on our book became more and more of a challenge. As we wrote there was always more research or another angle we uncovered. We came to a point when we realized we could continue adding more content or we could try to get the book published as is. After much discussion we decided to do just that and save the additional content for our next book.

7. Embrace Rejections; They are Part of the Process

We finally submitted our book proposal, chapter summaries, and sample chapter to our agent, Jill Marsal of Marsal Lyon Literary Agency, just after Labor Day—no irony there. We heard back from a handful of publishers within a week. The bad news? They were all rejections.

I’ll never forget where I was when we started getting email pings from our agent. I was in the car with my husband and sister-in-law touring Virginia wine country. “We have an interested publisher!” read the first email. Then four more well known publishers expressed interest. What we didn’t know about the publishing business is that once one publisher expresses interest, many of the others who had originally expressed a “thanks but no thanks”, suddenly want to take another look. Finally, one publisher put an offer on the table. That was our agent’s cue to inform the others. Did they want to make an offer, too? The next six days were like a ping pong match, back and forth between the publishers and our agent. We decided to go with McGraw-Hill and we are so happy we did. Despite all the deadlines, proof pages, and the myriad of administrivia it takes to publish a book, our brilliant agent and dedicated team of professionals at McGraw-Hill continue to be a joy to work with.

Bonus! 8. Embrace Ignorance and Confidence

After submitting the full manuscript to our publisher (there is nothing quite so invigorating as hitting the “Send” button), we spent the next six months combing over page proofs, learning about the publishing business and marketing, and securing endorsements. As Mark Twain once wrote: “To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.” We didn’t know what we didn’t know about the publishing world, but what we did know is that we had thirty-one evidenced-based tools that we felt compelled to share with the business world; and that my friend has made all the difference in the world.

(*Portions of this article were first published on LinkedIn.)

If you’re an agent looking to update your information or an author interested in contributing to the GLA blog or the next edition of the book, contact Writer’s Digest Books Managing Editor Cris Freese at [email protected].

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