Author: CHINA ALEXANDRIA LIVING THE DREAM

AUTHOR OF ROMANCE, CRIME DRAMAS AND POETRY SET IN GLASGOW, ITALY AND BRAZIL ALSO AVAILABLE ON KINDLE china.alexandria33@gmail.com THE RICHEST MAN ON EARTH THE YOUNG SHEPHERD LOOKED UP TO THE HEAVENS AND SMILED HE THANKED THE JEWELLED SKY FOR HIS GOOD FORTUNE HIS WIFE, THEIR TWIN BOYS,FOUR SHEEP AND TWO GOATS. THE JEWELLED SKY LOOKED DOWN ON HIM AND SMILED KNOWING MANY HAD THANKED IT FOR THEIR GOOD FORTUNE THINKING THAT THEY OWNED THE RICHES OF THE WORLD BUT ONLY THE YOUNG SHEPHERD WITH HIS WIFE, TWIN BOYS ,FOUR SHEEP AND TWO GOATS WAS TRULY THE RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD. BY CHINA ALEXANDRIA AUTHOR

7 ways to take control of your social media

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Social media have become pat of our daily lives. More than 37% of the world population are on some sort of social media.It has become almost impossible to live without them. It is important not to let social media dictate the way you live your life and what you want from life. Here are seven ways to take control over your social media.

1. Your time is precious

Set limits on the amount of time you spend on social media, wasted time never come back. Discipline yourself to walk away from that when you have reached your limited time to avid getting stuck in endless cycle between different social media platforms.

2. It isn’t real life

Social media isn’t real life. Try to spend as much time as you can with your real friends, meet up. A lot is lost between you and your friends when social media is your…

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Barricaded in my Naturist Cyber-Fortress

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So I read the Nick and Lins piece about naturism on Facebook the other day on Naked Wanderings when they lamented the many ironies of social media policies where simple nudity is forbidden, while all sorts of other atrocities somehow slip through the cracks. To be sure, navigating the internet in search of reliable information about people who are earnestly interested in social nudity is a slippery slope that will almost certainly lead your favorite search engine into various porn sites while helping you find “new friends seeking benefits,” not to mention an unsolicited fan club willing to send you pictures of their genitalia. Who could have imagined any of this back before the digital age?

DrA0Sy4XgAIA-BFBut here’s a thought for the day: What about all of us who feel so passionately about the naturist cause that we’ve barricaded ourselves in the naked cyber-fortress. That is, surrounding ourselves in…

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Dublin’s Fair City~

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Is really so pretty!

The historic old pubs are lovely,

and fun to explore,

on a good, old-fashioned Irish pub-crawl.

You are guaranteed to make friends because the people are warm, friendly, and often just a tad tipsy!

Dublin is a vibrant, colorful city,

justifiably proud,

of its artistic and literary history.

I am still home at The Holler, but it’s cheers to you from beautiful Dublin~

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2018 Barbara Jefferis Award winner

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The Barbara Jefferis Award celebrates women in literature and is awarded biennially for “the best novel written by an Australian author that depicts women and girls in a positive way or otherwise empowers the status of women and girls in society.”

The Award is named for highly regarded author Barbara Jefferis, a founding member and executive director of the Australian Society of Authors (ASA), and it is made possible by the generosity of John Hinde’s bequest (Barbara’s husband).  (I have recently acquired two of Barbara Jefferis’s novels: Solo for Several Players (1961) and Three of a Kind (1982). I can’t decide which one to read first.)

It’s a generous prize: the winner receives a prize of $50,000 and the shortlisted authors share $5,000.

This year the shortlist consisted of:

The Trapeze Act by Libby Angel (Text Publishing)
Troppo by Madelaine Dickie (Fremantle Press)
Storyland by Catherine McKinnon (HarperCollins), see my…

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