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- How To Encourage Friends Experiencing Hard Times - by Submitted on Mar 25, 2012 from Niama WilliamsAfter a year and a half of homelessness in both Pennsylvania and California, I have been that friend going through hardships. What I appreciated most were the friends who listened actively and assisted directly without my having to ask. Those friends were few and far between, but I remain ...
Views: 2810 - FACE-BLINDNESS & TRAUMA - by Submitted on Mar 25, 2012 from Niama WilliamsDr. Niama Leslie Williams March 20, 2012 It was not until I watched the 60 Minutes story this past Sunday, March 18th, 2012, that I realized I had written about a type of face-blindness in my first novel, a senior project completed for my undergraduate degree in Comparative Literature at ...
Views: 2553(1 vote) - Just P.U.S.H. (Pray Until Something Happens) - by Submitted on Apr 20, 2009 from Niama WilliamsPerhaps I push too often, push too hard, am too unyielding with myself. Perhaps it is that I always look for the fault within first, despite my judgmental nature. Perhaps it is that I am harshest with the woman I see too rarely in the mirror, preferring the representative green reflection of ...
Views: 4033 - The Anchor: Lynn Scheurell and Me - by Submitted on Apr 20, 2009 from Niama WilliamsIn the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God… It was that he spoke to me though I did not listen in the beginning. In the beginning I functioned as a child of my parents’ household – I beat myself up and asked why, why, God, did I keep screwing this ...
Views: 1563(1 vote) - 9 Tips for Living Well Before You Lose the Weight - by Submitted on Jan 11, 2009 from Niama WilliamsFor Oprah You may wonder why I dedicate this article to Oprah. I watched her show today, something I haven’t done since my days of daily addiction to her hour of power way back in 2000 when graduate school, warring faculty and a history of family trauma sent me back home--three thousand ...
Views: 1354 - Fictions: On Grief - by Submitted on Mar 20, 2008 from Niama WilliamsI don’t like these modern fictions, these post-modern, post-Western mythos of bravado and in-the-face-of-death steelinesses. I was afraid it would be him; of all of them he was the one I preferred most; more than the redhead, more than the Southern belle. And oddly, it was the black ...
Views: 1542 - Begin At The Beginning: An Initial Approach To Executive Coaching - by Submitted on Mar 20, 2008 from Niama WilliamsThe call you’ve been waiting for finally comes. The president and CEO of James Nanochic Widget Makers, Inc. is on the line. Peter James’ company has cornered the market on the cute microchip—advancing an interest in science among the young while creating trendy, chic ...
Views: 1706 - 17 Seventeen Ways To Green Your Coaching Business - by Submitted on Mar 20, 2008 from Niama WilliamsSeventeen—the threshold of adulthood, the last gasp of wily youth, the last days of burning the candle at both ends and greeting the burn with a grin. What if, however, you were an environmentally conscious seventeen? What if you were one of those second graders who’d toured ...
Views: 1930 - 17 Ways To Green Your Coaching Business - by Submitted on Mar 16, 2008 from Niama WilliamsSeventeen—the threshold of adulthood, the last gasp of wily youth, the last days of burning the candle at both ends and greeting the burn with a grin. What if, however, you were an environmentally conscious seventeen? What if you were one of those second graders who’d toured ...
Views: 1868 - Saving Another Saves Yourself - by Submitted on Feb 13, 2008 from Niama WilliamsAn inspiring thought that will help your day go cleaner, swifter, and with a higher degree of positivity: AN EXAMPLE FROM MY LIFE: I could not discern why I kept being thrown from residence to residence; why no home I seemed invited into let me stay. A friend, initially welcoming, became ...
Views: 1431 - Wisdom Bites - by Submitted on Feb 13, 2008 from Niama WilliamsWISDOM BITE #1: SOCIAL NETWORKING IS A GOOD THING. Got me an intro to Larry Meistrich’s Nehst Studios and some kick-ass carrot cake. Chatting up his assistant, Stefano Bonaretti, was a side delight, unanticipated when joining Philly Writers Meetup Group. Should you spend far too many ...
Views: 1070(1 vote) - The Velocity Of Gary - by Submitted on Feb 13, 2008 from Niama WilliamsYes, to write even on the dirty page, the page besmirched with prints of black and darker black, fingerprints and newsprint and my hoped for dreams finally more than a vision, my fantasies taking center stage and people around me, through telephone wires, saying yes, yes, yes! And that is ...
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