Sentences with phrase «as writing friends»

I've watched as writing friends get whisked away by literary agents, and have observed as their careers move forward.

Literally, as I write this a friend of mine just IMed me the details of his book deal he just got with a mainstream publisher.

As I wrote friends, the property has the serenity of a temple, with lovely gardens and an openness that makes you feel that you are totally unconfined.

Not exact matches

The problem is that we don't often actually see those friends face to face, as the Boston Globe's Billy Baker discovered when his editor asked him to write about the health effects of loneliness recently.

The federal medical privacy law named the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 is shorthanded as HIPAA, not HIPPA (which might be Peppa Pig's hippopotamus friend), as I mistakenly wrote yesterday.

As they age, he writes, men miss «gangship» (their groups of friends), so they need to suck it up and invest in rebuilding their oldest and best friendships.

She planned to write a book, but her notes became instead a business plan for a beauty and cosmetics company that relied on women to sell merchandise to their friends and acquaintances through direct sales (otherwise known as multilevel marketing).

As I've written before, they want the human touch, which comes from treating them like family and friends.

I wrote about him in an article, got him as an advisor when we started Elite Daily, and he became a dear friend and an investor.

«I will probably feel... upset as my social life will be totally stopped if I can not used Facebook and can not find my friends in Facebook, I will also feel like left behind as I will not be able to know what has happened with my Facebook friends in the coming five days,» wrote one participant.

If being CEO is what you want, say it out loud, write it down or tell someone else, such as a friend, confidant or spouse.

A friend who has been around tech almost as long as I have wrote the other afternoon with a question.

«If you paid full - price for the product, you might be slightly more likely to give honest feedback to your friend,» he writes, explaining that «by being a fully paying customer, it... feels right that I should get the experience a fully paying customer should get,» including offering helpful pointers on aspects of the experience that didn't go as well as they could have.

As media and technology scholar Zeynep Tufekci writes on Medium, «You are seeing fewer news items that you'd disagree with which are shared by your friends because the algorithm is not showing them to you.»

This effectively makes the transaction an investment in your company and also makes it easier from a tax standpoint for your friend or relative to write off the transaction as an ordinary loss if the business fails.

As a close friend of both Adam and Matthew for many years, it was truly an honor when they asked me to write this foreword.

-LCB- Guest Post written by Taseea Lainas - Cruz -RCB- Have you ever created something for your friends or family and thought to yourself «Maybe others would enjoy this as well,» or, «Maybe I can turn my passion into starting a home - based business»?

I recently left my job as a technical consulting manager and joined my best friends and my fiancé, Kyle, at Keen.io (I wrote about that here).

There was no shortage of creativity in our fundraising efforts, which included partnerships with Denver restaurants and shops, such as Chick Fil A and Alex and Ani, a wine party for friends and family with tickets and raffles, spirit week at Denver schools, as well as email and letter writing campaigns directly to prospective donors.

«He's an egomaniac devoid of all moral sense» ---- said the society woman dressing for a charity bazaar, who dared not contemplate what means of self - expression would be left to her and how she would impose her ostentation on her friends, if charity were not the all - excusing virtue ---- said the social worker who had found no aim in life and could generate no aim from within the sterility of his soul, but basked in virtue and held an unearned respect from all, by grace of his fingers on the wounds of others ---- said the novelist who had nothing to say if the subject of service and sacrifice were to be taken away from him, who sobbed in the hearing of attentive thousands that he loved them and loved them and would they please love him a little in return ---- said the lady columnist who had just bought a country mansion because she wrote so tenderly about the little people ---- said all the little people who wanted to hear of love, the great love, the unfastidious love, the love that embraced everything, forgave everything, and permitted everything ---- said every second - hander who could not exist except as a leech on the souls of others.»

But, just as audience awareness is important when writing a letter about last Saturday night to your grandmother versus your best friend (we bet you'd change the details dramatically!)

As I wrote, influencer marketing and content marketing are best friends.

Instead, it comes from connecting with the world and getting away from yourself, as when you enjoy time with friends, family, and children, are engaged at work, or do all - absorbing tasks such as art, writing, crafts, athletics, or helping others.»

♦ A friend wrote, taking issue with my characterization of Rush Limbaugh as someone who has «made his career by denouncing people.»

«I don't know if the reason for my anger is just my old fashioned Irish - American patriotism,» wrote the friend who sent us the link, «or the fact that I just spent a week with my father tripping and limping around with a bad leg he gave in the service of this nation, or because my mother is an immigrant and both my paternal grandparents were too, and as much as all of them loved Ireland they knew how much they owed this country and considered the precious value of their American citizenship only slightly behind that of their baptismal certificates.»

The lawyers simply can not be as blithe as my friend George Will and the other Never Trumpers, who write off this election and look to a better future rising from the ashes.

As Gertrude Himmelfarb has written, in place of the «confession (la Augustine) of one's own faults and sins, it is today «more often a «confession» of the faults and sins of others — of parents, lovers, friends, associates, or, if need be, of society at large.»

• W. H. Mallock, The New Republic: It defies reason that a professional economist should have written one of the most brilliant satires of the nineteenth century (it appeared in 1877); a conversation novel, in the manner of Thomas Love Peacock, and just about as ingenious as any of his; a grand and ungracious burlesque of the Oxonian intellectuals and writers of the time, many of them Mallock's friends.

Of course there are other reasons for my sporadic blogging this year: a surprise new baby coming which completely disoriented us, a new book to finish writing (and I will share all about that in January), travelling and speaking all over North America, stewarding the message of Jesus Feminist throughout her first year of life, creating the Jesus Feminist collection with Imagine Goods, a trip to Haiti, new opportunities as a writer, three tinies at home with their own lives and drama and growth and change, remodelling parts of our home, marriage, church, friends, life, work, laundry (oh, can we talk laundry?!)

This winter's speaking schedule will take me as far as Leawood, Kansas for a women's conference with my friend Sarah Bessey, and as close as my home office for a writing workshop on engaging social media.

• Traditional liberals, writes our friend Robert P. George, have promoted their views as a way that people holding conflicting comprehensive doctrines» «an integrated set of beliefs about the human good, human dignity, and human destiny»» can live together.

I thought I was just writing a nice little homage to my friends and the way that they set me free in so many ways, using the bikini thing as a metaphor, but instead I set off a modesty debate in the comment section that left me shaking my head.

• Our friend and former colleague David P. Goldman, writing as «Spengler,» draws out the implication of this redefinition of what it means to be religious:

But members of the FLDS Church are not as sheltered and out - of - the - loop as many people think, said Ken Driggs, a Georgia attorney has written extensively about the FLDS church and who counts many of its members as friends

Based on the bigotry that oozes out of every sentence you wrote, I think it is very safe to say that no gay person would ever want you as a friend.

For example, as a straight ally for my LGBT friends, I'm careful to check with them when I write about LGBT issues, to see they feel I've crossed a line or said something off base.

I can picture Christmas supper and birthdays, friends around the real wood fireplace, new books written here, tinies on trampolines, a garden at long last for my patient husband, late nights and early mornings and creating comfort as ministry.

As I write these paragraphs, a friend of mine is treading through his last twenty - four hours of life on this earth.

Hauerwas and the other essayists are on firmer ground when they write of the importance of holding on to the Christian story, which gives meaning to individual stories and provides «rich resources to make possible friendship between the elderly and, perhaps most important, becoming and remaining friends with ourselves as we age.»

As he wrote to Karl Barth, he found little support for his views, even among friends, and had decided «to go for a while into the desert.»

It came up that Phil Johnson, my friend and benefactor, has written an intro to postmodernism as well — a 20 - paged paper titled, You Can't Handle the Truth: Addressing the Tolerance of Postmodernism, which is classic Phil.

I am not an expert at this, but am learning from people who are, such as my wife, and my friend Sam, who has written a great series of posts on this very subject.

(For instance, on the very day on which I write this page, the post brings me some aphorisms from a worldly-wise old friend in Heidelberg which may serve as a good contemporaneous expression of Epicureanism: «By the word «happiness» every human being understands something different.

In the course of these remarks, this was said: «Those of us who shared our friend's deep faith in God as Love can have a confidence that nothing that he did, or said, or wrote, or thought can ever be lost.

As I write this, several friends come to mind.

Throughout the nearly 40 years she had her five children or ailing mom and uncle living with her and the following years as an empty nester, her life has written The Welcoming Table for family and friends fortunate to share in her simple seasonal meals and lively conversation.

wrote Prophecy Watchers, a two - year - old ministry based in Oklahoma City that announced the news of LaHaye's stroke, describing him as a friend and supporter.

In the 1970s, our country decided to write off hippies as glass - eyed stoners instead of listening to what they were saying about their friends fighting and dying in Vietnam.

As writing opened up opportunities for me to speak, my husband, my parents, my sister, my friends, my church, my mentors, my colleagues, other churches all agreed: self - selected or not, preaching and teaching were part of my calling.

Rich Merry Christmas you are an encouragement to us as well my friend it touchs my heart as i write these words with tears as i think of all that the Lord has done for me and now he works through us to witness to you thats a blessing.I believe exciting times are ahead for you as you move into the new year.As you trust the Lord to help you in your walk he will empower you by his spirit to overcome those things in your life that have been stumbling blocks in the past.I know that he can and i believe he will do the same for you.regards brentnz