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I Believe Women Could Rule The World – Guest post by Megan K.

Note From Josh: After reading this post from Megan I recommended that she read Lysistrata. If you haven’t read it, please check it out. It ties in nicely with this post. I believe women could rule the world. I believe women could rule the world and do a better job of it than men, but [...]

February 3, 2011 READ MORE →

The Secret Language of Sisters

Note from Josh: This is the most beautiful post I have ever had on this blog. I’m going to leave it at the top of the homepage for the next week at least so anyone stopping by will see it first. Please share it however you can on the web. And my heartfelt thanks to [...]

January 24, 2011 READ MORE →

Book Review: The Writer’s Essential Tackle Box

Guest post by Ellen Berry For the past year I was looking for a shortcut. Like most unpublished writers, I’d been determined to bypass the hoop-jumping and “get discovered” by a publishing house. I’d heard too many sagas of publishing woes, and didn’t want to end up as dejected as a cheap paperback cover. My [...]

January 17, 2011 READ MORE →

7 Habits of Highly Successful World’s Strongest Librarians – Part 1 of 3 – Guest Post by Ted Hessing

Note from Josh: I had this guest post submitted to me a few days ago and wasn’t sure I was comfortable running it. Ted speaks very highly of me, in a way that is only possible by someone who doesn’t know me as well as he thinks he does.  I do not officially advocate “following [...]

October 24, 2010 READ MORE →

Periodic Periodicals

This is a guest post from Todd Boyer It was like a scene in “A Christmas Story” — 9 year old Ralphie runs to the mailbox after school, hoping to find his “Little Orphan Anny” decoder ring. Then one day it arrives! Ralphie tears open the package as he runs to the one room in [...]

July 28, 2010 READ MORE →

Lessons Learned From Surviving Domestic Abuse, The Meaning Of My Name, And Writing With Purpose

This is a guest post by Michele Tune, one of the strongest people I know. The other day as I was reaching for a cup for my tea, I noticed a cup I’ve had for a while. It jumped out at me. This cup was a gift from family and I think it’s neat that [...]

June 30, 2010 READ MORE →

The Mindset of Rafael Nadal: 3 Steps to Being the Best in the World

Note from Josh: In this guest post from Jim Murphy, Jim says that I “Enjoy the fight” or the competition. Sometimes that’s true, sometimes it isn’t, as I wrote here. You might also enjoy this post on thoughts on hard work. Guest Post by Jim Murphy On June 6th, 2010, Rafael Nadal clinched his fifth [...]

June 21, 2010 READ MORE →

A Pickup Guide To Score The Pulchritudinous Librarian

Guest post by Eric Watermolen I think I may have made an error of judgment. I really wanted to offer up a new guest post on WSL, so I sent an email to Josh. That wasn’t the error, that’s actually a good idea; to communicate with the head honcho of the blog. I told Josh [...]

June 10, 2010 READ MORE →

Deadlifts: One Challenging Way To Save Your Soul

Note from Josh: I’ve received my first update for the Dewey Lunatic Project. Thanks to Kira Clark from The Fight Geek. Guest post by Ted Hessing Deadlifts are hard. I mean really, really hard. They are used in weightlifting competitions to judge a person’s strength because they tax the competitor’s body and mind so thoroughly. [...]

May 25, 2010 READ MORE →

7 Ways To Beat The Blues

Guest Post by Anna Miller If we knew the secret recipe for happiness and success, we would bottle it and hoard it for eternity. But emotions are not material possessions that we own; rather, they take over our minds and control our moods and disposition. We all want to be happy and cheerful all the [...]

May 22, 2010 READ MORE →