Category: reflection

• parisian phoenix author reflection

  Larry’s Thanksgiving Gratitude Personality Test

   A Quiz written for Thanksgiving 2023     Gratitude >>> By Larry Sceurman We sometimes experience providence or divine grace, a gift to our heart and spirit, which most of the time we accept without question. On the other hand, gratitude is a choice. We must choose to be grateful.…

  20 Nov 2023
• craft tips reflection review

  Journals for ourselves and for our writing: A Day with Laurel Olsen Wenson

  This month, Lehigh Valley author Laurel Olsen Wenson presented the Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group with a program on various types of journaling and then turned that information into a workshop of using journaling, both in the text and behind the scenes, as a resource for character development. Types of…

  19 Nov 2023
• events from the publisher reflection Uncategorized

  Power of People, Part 2

  Lunch N Learn with Friends of Pete With the Office of DEI at Moravian University At the Lunch N Learn event, I had the privilege of weaving my way around my alma mater. I sat with some new and old friends, not sure who would wish to be outed on…

  18 Nov 2023
• events reflection

  Power of People, part 1

  If I could only relay to you three lessons I learned in my print journalism career, they would be: Okay, so number three goes back to where I was a reporter, not craft, but there is nothing like the power of those three lessons. You can learn to write a…

  17 Nov 2023
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  Letting Go

  And Finding Our True Story >>> Larry Sceurman In my thinking, I have been revisiting the dynamics of three. This mindset that I have about things in threes all started, in my mid-thirties, when I took a course in philosophy and learned about Plato’s philosophy that man, the human being,…

  12 Nov 2023
• craft tips fiction reflection review

  Fiction as an Educational Tool

  This week, I read the work of two local authors– Phil Giunta whom I know from the Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group and Reyna Favis from the Phillipsburg Writers Group and a former member and supporter of The Phillipsburg Historical Society. I’ve been writing about them a lot lately. (For…

  11 Nov 2023
• from the publisher reflection

  Facing The Tax Monster

  Part of the fun of modern living is dealing with taxes. As the founder and owner of Parisian Phoenix Publishing, I handle my federal taxes with minimal angst but with the addition of Echo City Capers to our stable in 2023, we suddenly faced the reality of in-person sales where…

  9 Nov 2023
• events from the publisher nonfiction reflection

  Confessions of a History Nerd

  I love local history. I own Jim Lee’s book on the history of the Warren County, N.J., canal system and a signed copy of Kingdom of Coal by Don Miller and Richard Sharpless. (The two Lafayette professors wrote the book about the history of the Pennsylvania coal regions.) So, it’s…

  7 Nov 2023
• reflection

  The revolution will not be microwaved

  “Hey, Dad,” a certain teenager said. “Can you come with my to the college library this weekend?” “Why your Dad?” Mom asked. “I love the library.” They went to look up photography book’s for the teenager’s digital photography class. She needed portraits, so she could select a portrait she liked…

  3 Nov 2023
• parisian phoenix author reflection

  Things Pop-Pop Taught Me

  >>> Larry Sceurman Things My Pop-Pop Taught Me: My Pop-Pop was a great mentor. Things that my Pop-Pop didn’t teach me: These are some of the good things that I learned in life.

  30 Oct 2023