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Dr. Christine M. Silverstein On The 5 Things You Need To Be A Successful Author or Writer
Be Your Own Best Friend. When I was a mother and homemaker with four young children, I remember feeling isolated from others as I went about my daily chores. Sometimes I felt all alone. For example, on a snowy winter morning filled with challenges, I went to a post office to mail a large package after I dropped my three older children off at school. While I held a heavy toddler and the box for thirty minutes, my arms began to ache. I finally got to the counter, sat my daughter on it, and plopped the package down, when the postal worker asked: “How’s it going?” I was pleasantly surprised that he wanted to know how I was feeling, and I began to tell him a litany of things that went wrong that morning. After that discourse, he looked a little puzzled, focused on the package, and added, “No, ma’am, how’s…
