Best of 2018 by Traci L. Slatton
Author Traci L. Slatton offers an idiosyncratic list of the Best of 2018. For your reading pleasure.
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My Article in Quillette Magazine: Art, Commerce, and Vision
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art 
authors business 
gratitude 
hard work 
language marriage Sabin Howard 
Sabin Howard sculpture 
sculpting
art authors business gratitude hard work language marriage Sabin Howard Sabin Howard sculpture sculpting Author Traci L. Slatton posts a notice about her article "Art, Commerce, and Vision" in Quillette Magazine. Quillette Magazine is an online platform for free thought.
Colette, A Review
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5 star review art authors 
beauty excellence gratitude how to write a book language literature love marriage redemption vulnerability 
writing
5 star review art authors beauty excellence gratitude how to write a book language literature love marriage redemption vulnerability writing Novelist Traci L. Slatton reviews the film Colette (2018) starring Kiera Knightly. This is a film about a woman owning her own voice.
Art and Representation
Categories: art beauty excellence gratitude happiness hard work 
kindness love marriage redemption Sabin Howard Sabin Howard sculpture sculpting
art beauty excellence gratitude happiness hard work kindness love marriage redemption Sabin Howard Sabin Howard sculpture sculpting Author Traci L. Slatton muses on art and representation, ely concerning Sabin Howard's Bust of Ceres sculpture.
My husband Sabin Howard can sculpt. Think Carpeaux, Canova, or Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Think Michelangelo. He says, "Art represents us. How do we want to be represented?" It's a fair question...
The Gottman Institute: The Art & Science of Love
Categories: beauty excellence gratitude happiness hard work 
healing kindness life and death love marriage maturity real friends redemption sex vulnerability wholeness
beauty excellence gratitude happiness hard work healing kindness life and death love marriage maturity real friends redemption sex vulnerability wholeness Two days of extraordinary learning at the Gottman Institute workshop. The first day focused on building the ground of being of love through Drs. John and Julie Gottman's research-based techniques. The second day addressed conflict and techniques for repair after regrettable incidents.
Mystery of Birth
That left the mystery of my father. He never fit in with his family. Looked nothing like them. Had at least 75 IQ points over them. Was basically given away to be raised by a prosperous farmer. Called himself "the black sheep of the family" because he was smart, and joined the Navy and moved away from them.
Empowering Women
Categories: beauty eros 
errors excellence 
freedom gratitude hard work healing hope kindness life model love maturity redemption vulnerability wholeness
beauty eros errors excellence freedom gratitude hard work healing hope kindness life model 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.
Factual Error in The New Yorker: Is this how fake news starts?
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anarchy art authors autobiography criminal behavior 
dystopian errors hard work healing hope literature love marriage maturity Memorial politics psychosis Sabin Howard Sabin Howard sculpture vulnerability WW1 Memorial
anarchy art authors autobiography criminal behavior dystopian errors hard work healing hope literature love marriage maturity Memorial politics psychosis Sabin Howard Sabin Howard sculpture vulnerability WW1 Memorial Author Traci L. Slatton writes about how The New Yorker misquoted her husband sculptor Sabin Howard, creating a factual error. Dedicated to all the women whose ideas have been misattributed to a man and who were told to leave it be and not to rock the boat.
My friend's grandson passed
Categories: friends healing kindness life and death love marriage maturity Memorial missing people 
passings real friends vulnerability
friends healing kindness life and death love marriage maturity Memorial missing people passings real friends vulnerability My friend's grandson passed. Mourning is excruciating anyway, but yoked to a child's death, it is insupportable. There are no words.
Returning to Source and Writing Again
Categories: anarchy apocalyptic authors beauty dystopian eros errors friends gratitude happiness hard work healing hope horror I am kindness life and death life model love marriage maturity missing people passings real friends redemption sex 
spiritual teachings vulnerability wholeness writing
anarchy apocalyptic authors beauty dystopian eros errors friends gratitude happiness hard work healing hope horror I am kindness life and death life model love marriage maturity missing people passings real friends redemption sex spiritual teachings vulnerability wholeness writing Write again, they are telling me. You must write, Traci. It's the new theme: writing again.
Snooty Rich Women Are Everywhere, Including New Zealand
Places change but people don't. A recent trip to Wellington showed me the commonality of human traits, ely foibles. In a land where people pride themselves on being non-materialistic and friendly, I got to experience the same self-aggrandizing arrogance I see in New York City.
On Love
Categories: freedom friends gratitude happiness healing love maturity redemption spiritual teachings vulnerability
freedom friends gratitude happiness healing love maturity redemption spiritual teachings vulnerability Internationally renowned author Traci L. Slatton considers love as forgiveness and giving. Love doesn't negotiate, love gives and surrenders.
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