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

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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

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

When you sign a contract with a publisher you are granting them the rights to publish your work in one or many formats.This post is about manuscript contracts and I want to tell you a little about them…what a standard novel contract looks like and all the mysterious details that come with it that you need to look for—especially if you are looking at your first contract. Here’s the scoop:http: / / sfgirl-thealiennextd oor. blogspot. com/ 2009/ 01/ or-whats-heaven-for- writers-contracts. html

Why is the Higgs boson called the God particle? Read a summary about the world's largest particle accelerator: the Large Hadron Collider and Cern's search for the elusive Higgs boson. See Cern's beautiful images created by particle tracks on the Alien Next Door: http: / / sfgirl-thealiennextd oor. blogspot. com/ 2009/ 01/ fractal-wonders-of-c ernsearching-for_09. html