Author Giselle Minoli

The trauma of failing handwriting as a girl

How’s your handwriting? That is, if you’re not laughing by now…I mean, who writes anything by hand any more? Personally, I wish I never had to, because my handwriting is horrendous, worse than a doctor’s. I suffered early childhood trauma,… Read the full article

Dr. Oliver Sacks & the Healing Power of Music

It was from Dr. Sacks that I first learned about the magical, powerful, emotional and complex impact that music can have on our brains – that music is pre-lingual, that it can reach and stimulate areas of feeling and communication… Read the full article

Studies have shown that writing about oneself and personal experiences can improve mood disorders, help reduce…

Studies have shown that writing about oneself and personal experiences can improve mood disorders, help reduce…

A Downside to the Internet

There is a serious downside to the Internet and this is one of them. What? Beheading is now the new “vogue” terrorism device, replacing the ever-boring AK-47, the old-fashioned suicide bomber, and the Oh So Ho Hum car bomber? What… Read the full article

Childhood

As a matter of practical reality, I began working for money outside my mother’s home at 14, and I haven’t stopped working since. Hmmm…… Childhood is a fairly recent economic innovation. For most of recorded history, a vast majority of… Read the full article

Why do girls do better in school?

I hardly know where to begin deconstructing some of the lunacy in the attached article about why girls are doing…

On Not Growing Up With Money

I did not grow up with money, but I was a smart kid and got scholarships to attend top notch schools with other kids who did grow up with a lot of money. During my high school and college years… Read the full article

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1927-2014

My favorite writer has died.

Dear Men:

NOTE: Dear Men: was originally published on my Google+ blog, and I have chosen to import it here because of its relevance to the #MeToo movement. I’ve been blogging on G+ since the second week of its existence, and from the… Read the full article

Perhaps that’s why we see so much vitriol online, so many anonymous, bitter comments, so many imprudent tweets and…

Perhaps that’s why we see so much vitriol online, so many anonymous, bitter comments, so many imprudent tweets and…

Where will you be when you are old?

Where will you be when you are old?

Is My Son a Genius?

Google, Tell Me.

Ohio executes a murderer

I do not understand one single thing about this convicted murderer’s execution in Ohio today.

My connections and friendships with other writers on Google+ are two of my favorite things about this platform.

My connections and friendships with other writers on Google+ are two of my favorite things about this platform.

They told me a long time ago, they didn’t like me and I would never get it.

They told me a long time ago, they didn’t like me and I would never get it.

Morning

Morning

I haven’t read Mason Currey’s Daily Rituals, from which Marnie Hanel created This by That: Writers by Daily Starting…

I haven’t read Mason Currey’s Daily Rituals, from which Marnie Hanel created This by That: Writers by Daily Starting…

“I want to be alone. I just want to be alone” – Greta Garbo, Grand Hotel

“I want to be alone. I just want to be alone” – Greta Garbo, Grand Hotel

The role of men in modern families

So what is the purpose of men in modern families?

On writing literary nonfiction

A friend recently confessed that she didn’t think she could ever write nonfiction, which is highly personal, because…

Killing the sexual desire of women

It is articles like this one that are killing the sexual desire of women.

Google…and Privacy

‘Scuse me, but this statement is wholly absurd: “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place,” said Eric Schmidt, then Google’s chief executive, in 2009. First, the… Read the full article

“People read with their ears, whether they know it or not.”  – William Zinsser, On Writing Well

“People read with their ears, whether they know it or not.”  – William Zinsser, On Writing Well

The Boston Marathon Nightmare

James Barraford I, too, along with many people I know, am in complete agreement with your dismay at our cry for an Execution, Off With His Head And Let’s Be Done With It demeanor. Yes, 9/11 was the tidal turn for… Read the full article

Mornin’ my writing friends.

Mornin’ my writing friends.

Morning

Morning

Good morning, everyone

Good morning, everyone

Hello, everyone

Hello, everyone

I can bring home the bacon…

I can bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan – and never, ever let you forget you’re a man, ’cause I’m a woman.

Censorship and the Internet

To Censor or Not to Censor the Internet, for Some This is the Question… and this morning, for better or worse, I reveal my own conflicts about the much discussed issue of censorship, freedom of speech and expression on the… Read the full article

Greet-Ings…

Greet-Ings…

The end of a musician’s long day

How bizarre that at the end of a musician’s long day – of practicing and perfecting their craft – they might have to…

Of all the books I own – I’m a weirdo who still buys hardcover and paperback books – there are a few short works…

Of all the books I own – I’m a weirdo who still buys hardcover and paperback books – there are a few short works…

Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words. – Mark Twain

Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words. – Mark Twain

Stealing is stealing

Stealing is stealing, whether you use a computer command or a crowbar, and whether you take documents, data or…

A companion as companionable as solitude.

“I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.”

Ho Ho Ho! Nizhonigo Keshmish Baahózhó Doo Nínanahí

Ho Ho Ho! Nizhonigo Keshmish Baahózhó Doo Nínanahí, as the Navajos would say…

Good morning, everyone

Good morning, everyone

Morning, everyone

Morning, everyone

Presidential Election Eve, 2012

Presidential Election Eve, 2012

Greetings Googlers…

Greetings Googlers…

Felix Baumgartner jumps

Hello, everyone, post-Felix Baumgartner jump and mid- Dallas/Baltimore game

Malala Yousafzai is shot

How can I lightheartedly clack out “Good Morning” like I usually do after watching this video in the Times about a…

Greetings Google Guys and Gals

Greetings Google Guys and Gals

Good evening GarGoyles and GarGuys…

Good evening GarGoyles and GarGuys…

Good morning, everyone

Good morning, everyone

I find this very interesting.

I find this very interesting.

I’m rather a bit of a David Carr fan.  Smart, witty (as opposed to funny) and a keenly observant man and good writer.

I’m rather a bit of a David Carr fan.  Smart, witty (as opposed to funny) and a keenly observant man and good writer.

New Lovers, Young Lovers, Old Lovers

Good morning new lovers, young lovers, old lovers…

Hi, everyone

Hi, everyone

Good morning, everyone

Good morning, everyone

Good end of business day, everyone

Good end of business day, everyone

It’s dinnertime, at least it is on the East Coast, everyone

It’s dinnertime, at least it is on the East Coast, everyone

Hello Soccer Lovers….

Hello Soccer Lovers….

For those of you who agree with Socrates…

For those of you who agree with Socrates…

Good morning, everyone

Good morning, everyone

Hello, everyone

Hello, everyone

The gift and curse of technology

I struggling with technology. It is more and more difficult to sit in front of a computer for most of every day, writing, writing, writing, writing, writing. I long for the empty moments of silence when unexpected words will enter… Read the full article

Good April Fool’s Day, all. ‘Twas supposed to have been sunny, but ’tis rainin’ here.

Good April Fool’s Day, all. ‘Twas supposed to have been sunny, but ’tis rainin’ here.

Good morning, everyone…

Good morning, everyone…

Good Sunday afternoon, all of you Lovely and Loving Google Brains…

Good Sunday afternoon, all of you Lovely and Loving Google Brains…

Good Sunday morning everyone (again…)

Good Sunday morning everyone (again…)

All Sports All the Time

To my potential peril, I’m coming out of the closet on the subject of All Sports All the Time and saying that I – as one individual, as a woman, as a lover of athletics and sports, but as a… Read the full article

Good morning,Tweeting authors/writers

Good morning,Tweeting authors/writers

Good evening, everyone

Good evening, everyone

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