Posts by: L. Ann Dickson/Ahlstrom
A Letter From a Millennium
I have sat at a blank Word Doc for a while trying to think of what to say. I have written this opening line, so many times I have stopped...
Mission: No Spend Christmas
From that title everyone who has read it must think I am crazy. “A no spend Christmas, how on earth do you pull that off?” It’s not...
A Bleeding Heart
At 3:32 Pacific time on Friday, I saw a friend in London post a message of “Pray for Paris” on her Tumblr feed followed by information...
How Self-Publishing Made Me Appreciate Books More
This past summer I’ve been on a deadline. Project, “publish all the things.” To summarize it, I ended up with so many second and...
Hollywood’s Current Dilemma
These past few months, a year give or take a couple of days, has unleashed a problem in Hollywood that everyone hopes doesn’t...
When Faith Harms (Unveiling Spiritual Abuse)
The start of the twenty-first century and the close of the twentieth century (the later half by fifty to thirty or so years depending on...
The Tragedy in Children’s Entertainment
I want you to sit back and imagine something. I want you to picture in your mind a child, can be any age just picture one. Now this...
Two Hours
This past weekend (starting on Aug 14th) I had an experience I’d never wish on anyone. To give a little background, I live in the...
Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and Patreon fully explained (The Indie Report #4)
The big trio of Indie has taken the web by storm. Sometimes it feels like you cannot do a general search on social media or the blogs...
Empowerment and [Food] Security Through Gardening
It’s no secret that different activities have calming effects on the body. Gardening, or farming depending on where you’re at and what...