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Empowering Women

2018-06-15T21:00:00-07:00

Categories: beauty

beauty

eros

errors

excellence freedom

freedom

gratitude

hard work

healing

hope

kindness

life model love

love

maturity

redemption

vulnerability

wholeness

I have raised four daughters: Empowering Women is a force close to my heart.... Eleanor Roosevelt didn't know her place. She redefined what it meant to be a First Lady. She got out in front of the public eye and did humanitarian good.

Tender Loving Care for a Marriage

2018-03-10T21:00:00-08:00

Categories: anarchy

anarchy

beauty

eros

errors

gratitude

happiness

hard work

healing

hope

kindness

life and death

life model

marriage

maturity

International author Traci L. Slatton writes about books, videos, and websites that can succor a troubled marriage and turn things around so both partners are happier and working on the relationship.

Returning to Source and Writing Again

2018-03-01T21:00:00-08:00

Categories: anarchy

anarchy

apocalyptic authors

authors

beauty

dystopian

eros

errors

friends

gratitude

happiness

hard work

healing

hope

horror

I am

kindness

life and death

life model love

love

marriage

maturity

missing people

passings

real friends

redemption sex

sex

spiritual teachings

vulnerability

wholeness

writing

Write again, they are telling me. You must write, Traci. It's the new theme: writing again.

The Doctor As Entrepreneur

2016-04-07T21:00:00-07:00

Categories:

5 star review aging

aging

business

hard work

life model

medical innovation review

review

self-reliance

Doctor as Entrepreneur: In the face of the medical technology revolution and ever more rigid insurance regulations, doctors have their own ingenuity.

Recent Independent Artists & Thinkers BTR shows I enjoyed

2015-10-28T21:00:00-07:00

Categories:

blogtalkradio friends

friends

interview

life model music

music

radio

I enjoy hosting unconventional, out-of-the-box thinkers on my weekly BlogTalkRadio Show, Independent Artists & Thinkers. BTR allows great flexibility.

The Never Ending Journey of the Independent Artist, My Latest on the HuffPo

2015-04-21T21:00:00-07:00

Categories:

5 star review art

art

authors

autobiography blogs

blogs

book promotion dance

dance

dance school

guide to independent publishing

Huffington Post

independent publishing

life model

Sabin Howard

Sabin Howard sculpture

I am an independent artist, married to an independent artist, with friends who are independent artists. This piece on the HuffPo reflects what I've learned.

How to Be An Adult; Assholes: A theory; and Laws of Power

2015-04-07T21:00:00-07:00

Categories: anarchy

anarchy

criminal behavior errors

errors

freedom

gratitude

hard work

healing

hope

kindness

maturity

Three books: David Richo's, Aaron James', and Robert Greene's. I have to be more careful, more discerning. I turned to books to learn how to discern.

Myers-Briggs Personality Test

2014-12-24T21:00:00-08:00

Categories: friends

friends

happiness

healing

holidays

kindness

language

life model

mind-body connection

My lovely stepdaughter Julia entertained us over a lazy, happy Christmas morning by administering the Myers-Briggs Personality test to all of us.

Extraordinary Life Lesson Speech: Admiral McRaven's 2014 Commencement Address at UT Austin

2014-08-28T21:00:00-07:00

Categories:

5 star review

happiness

hard work

hope

maturity

Life Lesson Speech,My father was career Navy, an enlisted man, a chief. He was a difficult man and not a particularly good one, but I was, and am, proud of

Florence, the Medici Chapels, the Uffizi, and Social Media

2014-07-08T21:00:00-07:00

Categories: art

art

gratitude

healing

hope

life model love

love

mind-body connection

sculpting

travel

There are too many tourists in Florence. Plenty of them are dreadful. Today I overheard an American as he stood in front of Leonardo's sublime Annunciation

Marvelous Discovery: FOYLE'S WAR on Netflix

2014-01-19T21:00:00-08:00

Categories:

life model

sculpting

TV series

Last night I stumbled upon an intelligent, suspenseful British historical crime drama called Foyle's War. It's set in England during WW2.

My recent post on HuffPo: What I'm learning about life from writing novels...

2012-05-02T21:00:00-07:00

Categories:

Huffington Post

life model novels

novels

redemption

reference

spiritual teachings

wholeness

writing

Author Traci Slatton learns valuable life lessons from writing novels. Writing is so integral to my life that it becomes a springboard for all else.

Brene Brown: The power of vulnerability | Video on TED.com

2011-01-12T21:00:00-08:00

Categories:

gratitude

harassment

hard work

healing

hope

kindness

life model love

love

maturity

redemption review

review

spiritual teachings

transference

wholeness

Brene Brown: The power of vulnerability | Video on TED.com. "Blame is a way to discharge pain and discomfort."

The Power by Rhonda Byrne

2010-08-21T21:00:00-07:00

Categories: authors

authors

book reviews freedom

freedom

friends

gratitude

happiness

hard work

hope

kindness

life model love

love

redemption review

review

vulnerability

wholeness

The Power by Rhonda Byrne. There's a lot here, most of it good stuff. Opening the mind and heart to love can only benefit people.

Bittersweet: About Karma

2010-08-10T21:00:00-07:00

Categories: beauty

beauty

charity

errors

freedom

hard work

healing

life model

marriage

past life

redemption

spiritual teachings

About Karma. Over the last few years I've been working with Buddhist concepts and with the Bhagavad Gita. In the spirit of "what goes around comes around,"

Churchill, British Petroleum, and Primary Life Experience

2010-06-15T21:00:00-07:00

Categories:

hard work

hope

life model

Churchill's misspent youth full of backchat, overspending, and bad grades, followed by an adulthood as one of the greatest statesmen, gives me hope.

5 Ways to Engage Your Kids in Art and History

2010-01-29T21:00:00-08:00

Categories: art

art

beauty

life model love

love

5 Ways to Engage Your Kids in Art and History

Social Questions

2010-01-12T21:00:00-08:00

Categories: art

art

freedom

healing

history

life model

literature novels

novels

politics

redemption

wholeness

Social Questions. What does it take to create a truly equal society based on the merit of the individual, without regard to race, gender, sexual preference, or religion?

To Lissie and Bob, Respectfully, with Blessings

2009-03-02T21:00:00-08:00

Categories:

5 star review

life model

past life

To Lissie and Bob, Respectfully, with Blessings. I've reached that age where friends, and friends of friends, die. Time's attrition has set in.

On Transparency

2008-12-26T21:00:00-08:00

Categories:

astrology

freedom

happiness

hard work

healing

hope

kindness

life model love

love

maturity

past life memories

redemption

reincarnation

On transparency. Of late I've been thinking about karmic entanglement. I think it comes down to mutual forgiveness. I have a sense of the stickiness

Love's Hidden Symmetry: Hellinger's Work (part 1)

2008-08-14T21:00:00-07:00

Categories:

5 star review healing

healing

Love's Hidden Symmetry: Hellinger's Work (part 1). Of late I am reading Bert Hellinger's book LOVE'S HIDDEN SYMMETRY: What makes love work in relationships.

Traci L. SlattonAuthor Blog

Empowering Women

Tender Loving Care for a Marriage

Returning to Source and Writing Again

The Doctor As Entrepreneur

Recent Independent Artists & Thinkers BTR shows I enjoyed

The Never Ending Journey of the Independent Artist, My Latest on the HuffPo

How to Be An Adult; Assholes: A theory; and Laws of Power

Myers-Briggs Personality Test

Extraordinary Life Lesson Speech: Admiral McRaven's 2014 Commencement Address at UT Austin

Florence, the Medici Chapels, the Uffizi, and Social Media

Marvelous Discovery: FOYLE'S WAR on Netflix

My recent post on HuffPo: What I'm learning about life from writing novels...

Brene Brown: The power of vulnerability | Video on TED.com

The Power by Rhonda Byrne

Bittersweet: About Karma

Churchill, British Petroleum, and Primary Life Experience

5 Ways to Engage Your Kids in Art and History

Social Questions

To Lissie and Bob, Respectfully, with Blessings

On Transparency

Love's Hidden Symmetry: Hellinger's Work (part 1)

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