Life and Miracles

In the midst of my meditation this morning a word — MIRACLE — suddenly appeared in my mind’s eye. This after spending the week ruminating on a myriad of thoughts, searching for the just right word or thought for this blog. This word – MIRACLE – couldn’t be more perfect. I get to share with…

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Weapons of Mass Destruction — or Creation?

  Don’t you just hate it when you’re sailing along feeling like you are quite healed and enlightened when an event or words suddenly occur and you find yourself in extreme reaction? It feels like a Weapon of Mass Destruction has descended on your calm and peaceful existence. Well, that’s how I felt recently when…

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What’s In It For Me?

“Your first blog should be about what motivated you to write the book,” said my publicist. This made sense to me since, upon hearing I had written a book, most people asked me my motivation for writing it. Now I’m thinking the most important question is, “what am I going to get out of reading…

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What Will People Think?

The whimsical genius of Brian Andreas and his Story People couldn’t say it better, “I don’t have too many vices beyond caring what other people think, she said, but that’s a big one.”  This piece of art magically appeared in a gift store I was browsing in one weekend while I was writing about just that — my concern…

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Gotta love my fans!

You just never know who’s going to like your book. Imagine my delight when I received this text from Brie, my 10 year old granddaughter: “Hi Mimi. Your book is so cool. Also seeing your face on the back of the book is so cool!! I’m on Chapter 4  now.” Chapter 4’s title is, “What Was…

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Let’s Talk About Love

Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day – the perfect time to talk about love, right? There’s so much to say – what do I want to say? – and, how do I distill lovedown into a few paragraphs? Remember the silly game we played as kids, pulling the petals out of a daisy, saying, “he loves me, he…

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What are you thinking?

The average person has about 48.6 thoughts per minute, according to the Laboratory of Neuro Imaging at USC. This adds up to a total of 70,000 thoughts per day. That’s a crazy number. Even if it’s only 50,000 thoughts a day, that’s a lot. Several sources estimate that 70% of these thoughts are believed to…

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Why did I write this book?

“What motivated you to write it?” Invariably, this is what I hear when I tell people about the book. So, in case you, too, are wondering, let’s get the question answered. Somehow, I knew I was eventually going to write a book, and always thought it would be fiction of some sort. Never did I…

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Welcome to my new blog!

Welcome. My name is Mardi Kirkland, author of Who’s Pulling My Strings?. I am so happy to have you as a visitor to my blog. This project is very special to me, and I hope to share some of that excitement with you here. I will be using this blog to interact with you about Who’s Pulling…

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