Nina Munteanu's entertaining and easy to read guide to writing and publishing fiction is now on Amazon! Read about it and get the link here: http: / / sfgirl-thealiennextd oor. blogspot. com/ 2009/ 09/ fiction-writer-now-o n-amazoncom. html If you like the book why not write a review on Amazon?

What is intuition, where does it come from and how do we use it? Explore this mysterious part of our mind at The Alien Next Door: http: / / sfgirl-thealiennextd oor. blogspot. com/ 2009/ 09/ choosing-less-worn-p ath-of-intuition. html

The Salk Institute in La Jolla, CA embraces the vision of Jonas Salk and architect Louis Kahn, who created a research facility using light, bold lines and practical aesthetics that enhance creativity and innovation in its researchers... "Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality"—Jonas Salk Here's the link: http: / / sfgirl-thealiennextd oor. blogspot. com/ 2009/ 07/ architecture-of-drea ms-salk-institute. html

Architecture to Dream by... The Salk Institute in La Jolla, CA embraces the vision of Jonas Salk and architect Louis Kahn, who created a research facility using light, bold lines and practical aesthetics that enhance creativity and innovation in its researchers... "Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality"—Jonas Salk

Home is where the heart is... I explore how architectural design can influence how we think, our focus, intellectual performance and our social interactions. Jonas Salk, who developed the Polio vaccine devoted his life and his institute to this idea...Find out more... here: http: / / sfgirl-thealiennextd oor. blogspot. com/ 2009/ 04/ home-is-where-heart- is. html

Perhaps it was the rain and the winding road that nudged my psyche to wander into that other realm. Or was it the motion picture The Fountain that I’d seen the evening before—a surrealistic journey of the mind and the soul through crisis and toward enlightenment, true love and “ever-lasting life”? Or had it more to do with the fact that I’d been, for various reasons, without sleep for over forty hours, that I glimpsed the ordinary in an extra-ordinary light? Light had everything to do with it... http: / / sfgirl-thealiennextd oor. blogspot. com/ 2009/ 03/ dreams-and-perceptio nsthe-stuff-of. html

Learn what happened when an author went on a retreat to a snowy cabin to write a bazillion articles and her computer buzzed out on her... What's the connection between faith and well-being and memory?...and Pink grapefruit Breezers, for that matter... check it out here: http: / / sfgirl-thealiennextd oor. blogspot. com/ 2009/ 02/ authors-retreatand-m atter-of-faith. html

Learn what happened when an author went on a retreat to a snowy cabin to write a bazillion articles and her computer buzzed out on her... What's the connection between faith and well-being and memory?...and Pink grapefruit Breezers, for that matter... check it out here: http: / / sfgirl-thealiennextd oor. blogspot. com/ 2009/ 02/ authors-retreatand-m atter-of-faith. html

Learn what happened when an author went on a retreat to a snowy cabin to write a bazillion articles and her computer buzzed out on her... What's the connection between faith and well-being and memory?...and Pink grapefruit Breezers, for that matter... check it out here: http: / / sfgirl-thealiennextd oor. blogspot. com/ 2009/ 02/ authors-retreatand-m atter-of-faith. html

What does Canadian writer Margaret Atwood, debt, altruism and heroes have in common? Check out Nina Munteanu's blog post about reciprocal altruism, the role of the artist and the definition of a hero: http: / / sfgirl-thealiennextd oor. blogspot. com/ 2009/ 02/ margaret-atwoods-wis e-words-about-debt. html