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Homesick

By Li Posted on 07/04/2017 Posted in blog, cooking, travel, writing No Comments
Homesick

There is a certain amount of humility that comes along with moving almost 2,000 miles away from the part of the country you’ve lived most of your life. Packing up what you think are the essentials and driving cross-country, perhaps …

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Return of The Friday Five (Grats)

By Li Posted on 06/16/2017 Posted in gratitude, writing 3 Comments
Return of The Friday Five (Grats)

Some of you have been keeping better track of how long it’s been since I’ve written anything of substance.  I know you have because I haven’t been ignoring the Facebook and text messages asking me when my next novel will …

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Tagged with: Colorado, gratitude, Lisa Mauro, Lisa Mauro writer, Longmont, move to Colorado, writer

Redefining Importance

By Li Posted on 09/03/2016 Posted in blog, charity, community No Comments
Redefining Importance

Photo Credit: www.thenonconformingprofessional.com Despite an abrupt push into adulthood – and let me be clear from the beginning that this was of my own volition, my parents didn’t give me any ultimatums at 16 – I’ve reached far beyond what anyone’s …

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Tagged with: downsizing, tiny house

90 Days

By Li Posted on 03/03/2016 Posted in Advocare, blog, business, diet, weight loss, weight loss surgery, WLS, women No Comments

Wow, there’s been crickets here lately, huh? I promise you that the silence has been neither intentional nor without good reason.  I’ve spent the last few months getting adjusted to a new job, staring at two manuscripts in progress without …

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Tagged with: 24 Day Challenge, Advocare, challenge, diet, weight loss

All Those Yesterdays

By Li Posted on 10/09/2015 Posted in blog, sobriety No Comments
All Those Yesterdays

By the time you find yourself reading this, I will have hit a fairly significant milestone. Exactly one year ago, I took a deep sigh and looked upon the empty bottle with mixed emotions.  I felt fear.  Longing.  Sadness.  Disgust. …

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Reviewing Other Authors

By Li Posted on 08/29/2015 Posted in indie authors, indie publishers, rants, writing 1 Comment
Reviewing Other Authors

I had created a fairly lofty goal for myself this year:  Read one book a week.  Some folks are probably calling me an underachiever while others are asking themselves why the hell I’d even attempt it.  See, in the “real …

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Blog Tour – SM Spencer

By Li Posted on 08/13/2015 Posted in blog, indie authors, indie publishers, writing 19 Comments

I want to preface this entire post with the fact that from the very first line of SM Spencer’s Absent Shadows Trilogy, I was hooked.  I mean, I devoured the entire three-book series in a matter of as many days.  And …

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Legend of the Walking Dead by Joy Nwosu Lo-Bamijoko

By Li Posted on 08/11/2015 Posted in blog, writing 8 Comments

Two months ago, I succeeded in getting my publishing house to not only lower the cost of the Kindle edition of my book: Legend of the Walking Dead: Igbo Mythologies, but this was possible because I had to re-do the …

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Blog Tour – Jan Hawke

By Li Posted on 07/03/2015 Posted in blog, indie authors, writing 6 Comments

For those of you who have known me for a while, you know that there is a special place in my heart for Africa.  When I was working on my undergraduate degree, everyone asked me what the heck I’d even …

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Rave Reviews Book Club – An Author’s Perspective

By Li Posted on 06/01/2015 Posted in blog, The Place We Went to Yesterday, writing 14 Comments

When I launched my first novel, The Place We Went to Yesterday, back in November of last year, I had no idea what to expect.  I had no author platform.  I had no experience doing anything like this.  I thought, naively, …

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