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Cancer Diary: Something to Think About

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  I found the following article highly interesting, informative, and thought-providing. While it does not include exclusively cancer patients, certainly cancer patients can relate:  ‘My life will be short. So on the days I can, I really live’: 30 dying people explain what really matters (msn.com) . For other Cancer Diary posts, click  HERE . Blog editor's note: As a memorial to Carl, and simply because it is truly needed, MSI Press is now hosting a web page,  Carl's Cancer Compendium , as a one-stop starting point for all things cancer, to make it easier for those with cancer to find answers to questions that can otherwise take hours to track down on the Internet and/or from professionals. The CCC is expanded and updated weekly. As part of this effort, each week, on Monday, this blog will carry an informative, cancer-related story -- and be open to guest posts:  Cancer Diary .   Sign up for the MSI Press LLC newsletter Follow MSI Press on  Twitter ,  Face Book , and  Instagram

Available on pre-order: The Book That Almost Got Me Fired (James)

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  We are getting ready to launch  The Book That (Almost) Got Me Fired  by Kelly James. Look for it around June 15, 2024. Description: You're 52. Divorced. Single mom to a teenaged son and a tween daughter. Happily self-employed but worried about the cost of health insurance, the inevitable impact of perimenopause on your body, and whether you should keep dating a sexy plumber who's sweet and funny but lives an hour away and doesn't seem that into you. So, after 22 years of fulltime freelancing, you take a day job as a tiny, creaky cog in the corporate American machine where you're decades older than most of your coworkers - and you write about it. The Book That (Almost) Got Me Fired: A Year in Corporate America is an entertaining, midlife memoir that shares what (and what not) to do when you make that corporate leap. Follow MSI Press on  Twitter ,  Face Book , and  Instagram .   Sign up for the MSI Press LLC newsletter Interested in publishing with  MSI Press LLC ? Che

Book Jewel of the Month: A Theology for the Rest of Us (Yavelberg)

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  What is a book jewel? A sometimes-overlooked book with remarkable insight and potential significance. Each month, we share near-daily, or as often as possible, reviews of the monthly book jewel - short, succinct reviews that can be read in 1-2 minutes with links to the reviewer by reviewers whose words are worthy of being heard and whose opinions are worthy of being considered. Sometimes a couple of minutes contains more impressive thought than ten times that many. We will let you decide that. This month's book jewel is  A Theology for the Rest of Us  by Arthur Yavelberg. Description: If God exists and is good, why is there evil? Avoiding such questions underlies the spiritual emptiness and anxiety in today's world. A Theology for the Rest of Us explores how to approach the divine through Eastern and Western religious traditions without dogma, challenging readers to "be you lamps unto yourselves." In a time of internecine wars and all kinds of abuse of authority and

From the Blog Posts of MSI Press Authors: Julia Aziz - "When Your Outside Isn't Matching Your Inside"

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  Julia Aziz, author of Lessons of Labor , writes: Is it just me, or does it feel like the phrase "impostor syndrome" is getting confused and over-used? To clarify, I want to explore what it's like to feel like you're faking it. Maybe people assume you know what you're doing, but you secretly fear that you don't.  First Things First: Being New is Normal If you're new at whatever you're doing and feel like an impostor, then you're probably an honest person on the right track. When we're first learning anything, it's all skills practice. We follow what we've been taught and practice the tools handed down by those more experienced than us. Over time, we integrate what we've learned into our own personality and style until it becomes our own. Everybody gets there by mucking it up along the way.  Impostor Syndrome is for Everyone Impostor syndrome doesn't just affect newbies though. Everyone has days or weeks, even years, where they&

Publisher's Pride: Books on Bestseller Lists: Surviving Freshman Year (Gregory Jones)

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  Today's Publisher's Pride is   Surviving Freshman Year  by Gregory Jones, which reached #427 in a large category: college & university student life.  AWARD LITERARY TITAN GOLD AWARD Read more posts about Gregory and his book  HERE .  Sign up for the MSI Press LLC newsletter Follow MSI Press on  Twitter ,  Face Book , and  Instagram .   Interested in publishing with MSI Press LLC? Check out information on  how to submit a proposal . Interested in receiving a free copy of this or any MSI Press LLC book  in exchange for  reviewing  a current or forthcoming MSI Press LLC book? Contact editor@msipress.com. Want an  author-signed copy  of this book? Purchase the book at 25% discount (use coupon code FF25) and concurrently send a written request to orders@msipress.com.  For more posts about Gregory and his book, click  HERE . For more publisher pride posts, click  HERE . Sign up for the MSI Press LLC newsletter Follow  MSI Press  on  Twitter ,  Face Book , and  Instagram .   Int

Daily Excerpt: Weekly Soul (Craigie) - Introduction

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    Today's book excerpt comes from  Weekly Soul: Fifty-two Meditations on Meaningful, Joyful, and Peaceful Living   by Frederic Craigie . INTRODUCTION   In August, 2004, my friend and psychologist colleague Peter Flournoy, Ph.D., died of cancer at the age of 45. Peter was a remarkable person, an energetic professional, and a gentle soul. He experienced his cancer as a blessing that taught him more about life than he otherwise would have understood. He packed a lot into the last couple of years of his life, ice climbing several times and sea kayaking to Monhegan Island (ten miles off the Maine coast—not for the faint of heart) a month before his death. Peter was also excited about his spiritual life, which was informed particularly by Buddhist philosophy and practice in his last years. His memorial service took place on a glorious summer day. We who attended all received a card with a favorite meditative image of Peter’s and his words:   Life has taught me not to grasp and hold but

The Story behind the Book: Las Historias de Mi Vida (Ustman)

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    From the editor -- Las Historias de Mi Vida  is the third book Fernando Ustman published with us.  It is a good story about how authors actually get contracts. Just like book sales, many come via word of mouth. Fernando had published two books ( Las Puertas de la Eternidad and EL Poder de lo Transpersonal ) in Colombia, his home country, and wanted to publish second editions of them. Not in English, but in Spanish. At the time, we were not publishing in Spanish. However, Fernando's brother was a good friend, a priest from Colombia who had been assigned to our diocese for five years. So, we plunged into the task. Now, we have published other books in Spanish -- Fernando set us on that path. For more posts about Fernando and his books, including excerpts, click  HERE . Fernando's books can be purchased at discount from msipress.com/shop. Use code FF25 to get 25% off any of them.                                    Sign up for the MSI Press LLC newsletter Follow MSI Press on