tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27156508327462638822024-03-07T01:45:31.281-04:00A Piece of My MindJulia Phillips Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15392455413201190775noreply@blogger.comBlogger1667125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2715650832746263882.post-89604719930349176102016-05-13T13:40:00.000-03:002016-05-13T13:40:19.566-03:005 on Friday -- Set 316<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Spinning Friday tunes since 2010...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Although I started this year's April <b><a href="http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/">A to Z Blog Challenge</a></b> with a strong opening week, I'm also continuing to retrain at my day job following a year-long medical leave. In the new era of pacing for strength and endurance, my old mind-over-matter thing is now history. Once again, I'll get back to the entries for the remainder of the challenge over time. I've missed three <b>5 on Friday</b>s, so I've adjusted the set list number to reflect a total that includes the three missing sets -- they'll be posted as soon as I can get to them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now, onward to my once-a-month project for 2016.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This year I'll be focusing on <b>Songwriters</b>. Check back on the first Friday of each month as I take a look at the work of artists whose creative voices are most often brought to us through the performances of others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">May belongs to <b><a href="http://www.songwritershalloffame.org/exhibits/bio/C19">Cole Porter</a></b>.</span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My attraction to his work definitely began with the Sergio Mendes Brasil 66 version of <i>Night and Day, </i>which has been a favorite of mine since childhood. I've been lucky enough to sing some of his pieces in choir, which gave me a deeper insight into just how brilliant he was.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There's a reason that some artists' work rise above their contemporaries to become standards and classics, performed over changing decades and in all kinds of styles. The reason is simple: the authenticity of the work resonates deeply, speaking to all of us about what it feels like to live, to love and to survive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The hardest part of getting this set list together was not the exquisite pleasure in assembling a long 'short list' of songs. The hard part was leaving off so many glorious gems.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>1</b> - <i style="font-weight: bold;">Let's Misbehave</i> - <b>Irving Aaronson and his Commanders</b> featuring vocals by <b>Phil Saxe</b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>2</b> - <b><i>So In Love</i></b> - <b>k d lang</b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>3</b> - <b><i>Night and Day</i></b> - <b>Sergio Mendes and Brazil 66</b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>4</b> - <b><i>You're the Top</i></b> - <b>Ella Fitzgerald</b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>5</b> - <i style="font-weight: bold;">I've Got You Under My Skin</i> - <b>Frank Sinatra</b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you'd like to join in, simply choose five pieces of music and post them for other bloggers to enjoy. Then check out the set posted by the other </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">5 on Friday</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> blogger -- you can sign in over at </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://mjgolch.blogspot.ca/">Golch Central's Rambling Stuff</a></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span></div>
Julia Phillips Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15392455413201190775noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2715650832746263882.post-3798862595659867912016-04-09T10:31:00.000-03:002016-04-09T10:31:23.188-03:00A to Z Blog Challenge -- H -- Hannah Hunter, author of the ALPHA WARS series<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Welcome to Day 8 of this year's April blog event -- the </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/p/a-z-challenge-sign-up-list-2016.html">A to Z Blog Challenge</a></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Today it is my pleasure to introduce you to <b><a href="http://victoriabarbour.com/#/hannah-hunter-books/">Hannah Hunter</a></b>, a fellow member of my</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> writers' group</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.rwaac.org/">Romance Writers of Atlantic Canada</a>.</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hannah writes paranormal werewolf romances. Not only werewolf romances, but billionaire hero romances. And not only </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">billionaire hero romances, but BBW -- that's Big Beautiful Woman -- shapeshifter romances.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Today we're taking a look at Hannah's book <b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Alpha-Wars-Shifter-Billionaire-Romance-ebook/dp/B01C9GB2XG/ref=pd_sim_351_5?ie=UTF8&dpID=51cxcVTYP9L&dpSrc=sims&preST=_OU01_AC_UL160_SR103%2C160_&refRID=01W8MJAF67P64A6ETR75">ALPHA WARS Book 6</a>.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I'll let some of Hannah's readers introduce you to the story:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/review/RQM7N9Z6KE9SU/ref=cm_cr_dp_title?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B01C9GB2XG&channel=detail-glance&nodeID=133140011&store=digital-text">I Seriously Can't Get Enough of Clan Faoladh and Conri!!!!</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/review/R1UU2FWHVMQA42/ref=cm_cr_dp_title?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B01C9GB2XG&channel=detail-glance&nodeID=133140011&store=digital-text">This Story is Zooming Along!!</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/ROIK8RFW1PKFX/ref=cm_cr_getr_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B01C9GB2XG">Definitely a Good Thing! There is So Much Going On</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Welcome to Day 7 of this year's April blog event -- the <b><a href="http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/p/a-z-challenge-sign-up-list-2016.html">A to Z Blog Challenge</a></b>!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This year's challenge schedule includes five Fridays, and here at <b>A Piece of My Mind,</b> Fridays mean music.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For <b><a href="http://julia-mindovermatter.blogspot.ca/2016/04/a-to-z-blog-challenge-e-eastern-passage.html">Day 5 -- E</a></b> -- I wrote about my health issues and how re-establishing a gentle exercise routine with my chronic-pain body has been a powerful tool for recovery. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Simple walking has turned out to be so instrumental to my new relationship with my body. One thing for which I've been so grateful is the greenbelt park system stretched all along the residential neighborhoods in my city. In just a few steps, anyone here can be transported to the healing energy of woods and fields.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This week's musical set is inspired by the many restorative walks I've taken along the city's <b>greenbelt park system</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you'd like to join in, simply choose five pieces of music and post them for other bloggers to enjoy. Then check out the set posted by the other </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">5 on Friday</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> blogger -- you can sign in over at </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://mjgolch.blogspot.ca/">Golch Central's Rambling Stuff</a></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Today it is my pleasure to introduce you to <b><a href="http://nicolarwhite.com/">Nicola R. White</a></b>, a fellow member of my</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> writers' group</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.rwaac.org/">Romance Writers of Atlantic Canada</a>.</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nicola writes kickass paranormal romances for new adult readers. What is <i>new adult?</i> you may ask. It's a crossover genre between YA </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and the broader spectrum of adult fiction</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> (YA featuring high school aged protagonists who are routinely called upon to save the world because the adults are bringing grandma to her doctor's appointment or searching for furnace parts at the hardware store.) New adult focuses on all those things that the 18-to-30 year old crowd wrestles with: </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">moving to a new city, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">landing that first real job, navigating roommate relationships, redefining one's place in the world. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Today we're taking a look at Nicola's third book in her <strong>Furies of New England</strong> series, <strong><a href="http://nicolarwhite.com/new-england-furies/">DARK FURY</a> </strong>which released this past February. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Furies are ancient female dieties who act as champions of justice and vengeance. In Nicola's series, four friends discover they have somehow become hosts to the spirits of the Furies. As each of the main characters carves out a relationship with the Fury residing within her, the books' romantic suspense storylines give the Furies more than enough excuses to emerge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In DARK FURY, Rachel Underwood's dream of attending Harvard University finally comes true when she walks onto campus as a mature student. It's been a long journey, but she's finally made it -- no longer fresh out of high school but with a few years under her belt. Too bad she also has a Fury lurking inside of her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tisiphone definitely complicates Rachel's confusing attraction to FBI agent Ethan Graves, who has lurked on the edges of the Furies' activities in Books 1 and 2. Will Rachel get a chance to sort out her own feelings for the disconcerting agent, or will Tisiphone leave Rachel and Ethan to burn in the fireball of her breakout quests for retribution?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nicola's first book FURY'S KISS wrapped up the series' first instalment with the four friends making peace with their new roles and assembling a Furies team with an Avengers or an X-Men feel to it. I loved it. My own vampire character Peredur in <b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Saint-Sanguinus-Vampire-Trilogy-ebook/dp/B00689V17I/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1327756692&sr=8-1">VAMPIRES SAINTS AND LOVERS</a></b> has a similar identity crisis when the saint inside of him takes over, so I really love this aspect of Nicola's series. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Welcome to Day 5 of this year's April blog event -- the </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/p/a-z-challenge-sign-up-list-2016.html">A to Z Blog Challenge</a></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have several linked conditions which make working outside of the home a challenge: the most difficult one is <b><a href="http://www.ecojustice.ca/a-victory-for-victims-of-environmental-sensitivities-or-multiple-chemical-sensitivities/">Multiple Chemical Sensitivity</a></b>, as any office environment is filled with things that trigger my symptoms (toner from printers and copiers, fragrance from people who enter the reception area who weren't aware that we have a scent-free environment, detergent and drier sheet residue from uniforms worn by delivery drivers, hand sanitizer, just to name a small handful.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I also have chronic pain from <b><a href="http://www.niams.nih.gov/health_info/fibromyalgia/">fibromyalgia</a></b>, <b><a href="http://bodyandhealth.canada.com/Condition/GetCondition/Myalgic-EncephalomyelitisChronic-Fatigue-Syndrome">chronic fatigue</a></b>, as well as the more familiar allergies and asthma.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Following a severe reaction to new carpet and vinyl wallpaper five years ago, and then another severe reaction to the last flu shot I received (four years ago) my day to day health had declined to the point that when renovations were scheduled for my office, my doctor placed me on medical leave in order to preserve what little wellness remained.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">During that time, I received treatment for my strange assortment of connected conditions. I embraced everything the clinic had to offer me, all of which required me to be in the driver's seat. The only piece of the treatment which one could regard as something that wasn't internally motivated was going for dry sauna detox treatments, which I'm still doing a year later.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The biggest part of the treatment schedule was to alter my own relationship to my body. To be honest, when I arrived at the clinic (for a second time, having been treated there a decade earlier following a previous health crisis) I didn't really have a relationship with my body. In fact, I never referred to my body as <i>my body</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I would say <i>this thing</i> when referring to the malfunctioning deadweight to which I'd been saddled. I did everything in my power to override any signals coming from <i>that thing</i>, especially signals like exhaustion, illness symptoms and most especially pain signals.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The clinic asked me to start listening to my body, to truly inhabit it and to start a relationship with it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When I had to start moving this creaky, pain-racked body around while staying put for all the sensations that go with exercise -- even little old people exercises like they gave us at the clinic -- I can tell you it was not pretty.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Luckily for me, I descend from a long line of very stubborn <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acadians">Acadians</a></b>. If I was going to have a successful return to work, if I was going to have a successful return to anything, really, I had to begin with moving this body to keep it going.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Also luckily for me, I live in an area where there are many gorgeous parks beside lakes, weaving through forests and along the ocean. One of the places I ended up going for my Fitbit-powered walks was the boardwalk in the Fisherman's Cove area in <b><a href="http://www.fishermanscove.ns.ca/">Eastern Passage</a></b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It has given freely of its energy and beauty. For Day 5 of the challenge, take a walk along the Eastern Passage boardwalk with me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Welcome to Day 4 of this year's April blog event -- the </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/p/a-z-challenge-sign-up-list-2016.html">A to Z Blog Challenge</a></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Today it is my pleasure to introduce you to my good friend <b><a href="http://www.shawnaromkey.com/">Shawna Romkey</a></b>, a fellow member of my</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> writers' group</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.rwaac.org/">Romance Writers of Atlantic Canada</a>.</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Shawna writes paranormal and fantasy novels for the YA (young adult) and new adult reader. That can be a bit of a misnomer, however, as I'm in my early 50s and I love her series.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Today we're taking a look at Shawna's <strong>Speak of the Devil</strong> series, which just wrapped up this past February with <strong><a href="http://www.shawnaromkey.com/?page_id=23">THE DEVIL YOU KNOW</a></strong>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm a massive fan of her first two books in the series, and I'm currently checking my mailbox because I recently ordered a paperback copy of THE DEVIL YOU KNOW for my keeper shelf, as I'm more of a page-turning kind of gal, rather than a swipe, swipe kind of ereader.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This series has a cast of Midwestern high schoolers who thought their biggest problems had to do with losing their friends in a fatal car accident -- which, granted, is way up there on the coping scale.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">However, the human characters are only part of the crowd, which include hunky, broody angels, the ancient female powerhouse Lilith and of course, the Devil himself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Book 1 lets loose an earth-bound battle between heaven and hell, while Book 2 takes us straight to the original Dark Side.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">THE DEVIL YOU KNOW brings main character Lily's living on borrowed time thing back to the table as she battles to save her warrior angel boyfriend Luc before that pesky Devil decides to renovate God's earthly handiwork and wipe out all of humanity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you need the stakes to be higher than whether Lily's senior prom dress is the same exact one as the homecoming queen's, Shawna's Speak of the Devil series is just what you've been waiting for. If you find yourself wondering why you find a character like the Devil so irresistible, just remind yourself that he's the King of Seduction and go with it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Welcome to Day 3 of this year's April blog event -- the </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/p/a-z-challenge-sign-up-list-2016.html">A to Z Blog Challenge</a></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Today it is my pleasure to introduce you to <b><a href="http://www.paulaaltenburg.com/">Paula Altenburg</a></b>, a fellow member of my</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> writers' group</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.rwaac.org/">Romance Writers of Atlantic Canada</a>.</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Paula writes in two genres: contemporary romance, and western-flavored dystopian paranormal romance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm a huge fan of her paranormal Demon Outlaw series, and for anyone who is a fan of <b><i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0409847/">Cowboys and Aliens</a></i></b>, I highly recommend Paula's newest paranormal western <b><a href="http://www.paulaaltenburg.com/fantasyparanormal/">PALE MOON WALKING</a></b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Paula sets her story in a small Nevada town called <b>Coyote Bluff</b> where the charm of its quirky cast becomes a character in its own right.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm a longtime fan of indie films and series set in towns where the place and the inhabitants meld into one unforgettable entity. I never fail to fall head over heels for these towns, and Coyote Bluff ranks up there with the very best of them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Throw in a mash-up of the western genre with secret government experiments, a sheriff who is actually the kick-ass heroine, twisty plotlines and unexpected humor and you've got a great introduction into masterful world building.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You may feel like you recognize Coyote Bluff when you first step into the story, but you'll soon discover you've fallen down an entirely different rabbit hole. Just make sure you hold onto your Stetson on the way down. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Welcome to Day 2 of this year's April blog event -- the </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/p/a-z-challenge-sign-up-list-2016.html">A to Z Blog Challenge</a></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Today it is my pleasure to introduce you to <b><a href="http://www.michellehelliwell.com/">Michelle Helliwell</a></b>, currently serving as president of my local chapter of <b><a href="https://www.rwa.org/">Romance Writers of America</a></b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our writers' group <b><a href="http://www.rwaac.org/">Romance Writers of Atlantic Canada</a></b> just celebrated 15 years together this past September.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is Michelle signing copies of her debut release last June at her book launch for <b><a href="http://www.michellehelliwell.com/nyab">NOT YOUR AVERAGE BEAUTY</a></b>, a Beauty and the Beast inspired Regency romance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Well, retelling a myth or a fairy tale in a new way gives readers two things that they desire every time they open a book: a sense of familiarity in a genre sense, meaning that if they open a romance they expect to find a Happily Ever After by the end, or if they open a thriller they expect to find the murder solved by the end. Yet they don't simply want to read the same old, same old. They want something fresh, something new.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Stating in the book's back cover blurb that it's a Beauty and the Beast story sets up certain expectations in the reader:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- an imposing estate with an impressive library (check)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">NOT YOUR AVERAGE BEAUTY takes us into a world where we're longing to go, and delivers characters we're certain that we want to meet. Retelling this story in her own voice gives Michelle Helliwell's readers that freshness that we also desire.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Is this the furry, grotesque 'beast' from the classic fairy tale or the animated musical? No, rather a member of the nobility who suspects he has been cursed to act out in a mindless, beastly fashion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Do the cups and saucers talk? Is there overt magic involved? Is there perhaps an underlying folk belief in curses in a rural British village, instead?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you're already a big fan of <b><i><a href="http://abc.go.com/shows/once-upon-a-time">Once Upon a Time</a></i></b> as I am, then you already know the allure of settling in for a fairy tale retold.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Welcome to Day 1 of this year's April blog event -- the <b><a href="http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/p/a-z-challenge-sign-up-list-2016.html">A to Z Blog Challenge</a></b>!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is my sixth year participating. I've finished the challenge every year except for last year -- ironically enough, I was home from work on medical leave and was shocked to find that my wide-open time schedule could not make up for the fact that I was not feeling well enough to keep up the pace.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">However, as this year's challenge dawns, I am back to work and feeling up to taking on twenty-six blog posts in thirty days.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This year I'll be focusing on <b>Songwriters</b>. Check back on the first Friday of each month as I take a look at the work of artists whose creative voices are most often brought to us through the performances of others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Jazz Age and Depression-era songwriter was born as Andriamanantena Paul Razafinkarefo, the grand-nephew of the last queen of Madagascar. His father died during the French invasion of Madagascar, forcing his pregnant mother to seek refuge in New York City.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Raised in Harlem, Andy worked as an elevator operator while writing poetry and lyrics. When he met up with Fats Waller, a songwriting duo was born that turned out classics such as <i>Ain't Misbehavin'</i> and <i>Honeysuckle Rose</i>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This week's set goes out to former CBC broadcaster <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jian_Ghomeshi">Jian Ghomeshi</a></b> in the wake of his aquittal yesterday on all charges of sexual assault, and overcoming resistance by choking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">For those unfamilar with the case, you can get up to speed with Anne Kingston's <i>Maclean</i>'s article:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>2</b> - <i style="font-weight: bold;">Hello, Little Girl</i> from <b><i>Into the Woods</i></b> - <b>Johnny Depp</b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This year I'll be focusing on <b>Songwriters</b>. Check back on the first Friday of each month as I take a look at the work of artists whose creative voices are most often brought to us through the performances of others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">March belongs to <b><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/irene-higginbotham-mn0000097667/biography">Irene Higginbotham</a></b>.</span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tuesday, March 8th will bring <b><a href="http://www.internationalwomensday.com/">International Women's Day</a></b>, so this month's <b>Songwriters </b>feature showcases that rarity among the composers who will grace <b>A Piece of My Mind</b> this year. African American Irene Higginbotham managed to hold her own in a competitive field of songwriters known collectively as Tin Pan Alley, dominated by white males in the early 20th century.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My friend <b><a href="http://www.shawnaromkey.com/">Shawna Romkey</a></b>'s final book in her Speak of the Devil series released this week. To celebrate, here are five songs that give a nod to the devil.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><b><a href="http://www.shawnaromkey.com/?page_id=23">The Devil You Know</a></b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I've been extremely grateful for this ease-back return-to-work schedule, as I'm managing three separate but connected conditions: multiple chemical sensitivities (which were the most pressing problem at the time my medical leave began,) chronic pain and chronic fatigue.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I've been careful to get loads of rest as I built up my stamina for the work week, while at the same time changing what I do with my break time, which now includes going for a walk away from my desk.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So far, so good!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Time for my once-a-month project for 2016.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This year I'll be focusing on <b>Songwriters</b>. Check back on the first Friday of each month as I take a look at the work of artists whose creative voices are most often brought to us through the performances of others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">February belongs to <b><a href="http://bacharachonline.com/">Burt Bacharach</a></b>.</span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Along with his longtime lyricist <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_David">Hal David</a></b>, Bacharach is responsible for so many of my favorite love songs that I simply had to turn the month for valentines over to him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nine years ago, on February 5th, 2007 I posted my very first blog post here at <b>A Piece of My Mind</b>. Crazy to think that next year I'll be celebrating an entire decade of blogging.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And now, it's over to you Burt Bacharach.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>1</b> - <i style="font-weight: bold;">The Look of Love</i> -<b>Sergio Mendes and Brasil 66</b> - 1968</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This one is simply it for me. The song itself and this version of it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you're going to spend the rest of your career writing legendary songs, you might as well cover a songwriting giant like Bacharach on your debut album. This song's lyrics were written by Luther Dixon and Mack David.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's probably not very fair to follow Tom Jones' powerful voice with Herb Alpert's, but the unaffected delivery of this song is a huge part of its charm for me. I just adore the fact that this love song compelled a trumpet player to become a singer. That's the power of the Bacharach/David one-two punch. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you'd like to join in, simply choose five pieces of music and post them for other bloggers to enjoy. Then check out the set posted by the other </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">5 on Friday</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> blogger -- you can sign in over at </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://mjgolch.blogspot.ca/">Golch Central's Rambling Stuff</a></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Spinning Friday tunes since 2010...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">...and sending out a Big Time Birthday Hug to my musical partner in crime, <b>Mike Golch</b> -- the other remaining <b>5 on Friday</b> blogger!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To mark the passing of <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bowie">David Bowie</a></b> on January 10th at age 69, <b>A Piece of My Mind</b> salutes a musical giant with this week's set. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>1</b> - <i style="font-weight: bold;">Ziggy Stardust</i> - 1972</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm going to go out on a limb -- considering his extensive musical catalogue -- but the opening chords of <i>Ziggy Stardust</i> can be considered to be Bowie's musical signature.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Like many people, I adored the inclusion of <i>Moonage Daydream</i> on the <b><i>Guardians of the Galaxy</i></b> soundtrack. Although I loved the whole soundtrack playlist, I always found myself starting with David Bowie's track and then hitting replay over and over. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Once again, this track was used in a film soundtrack in the anachronistic <b><i>A Knight's Tale</i></b>, where Heath Ledger and the rest of the medival court danced to the strains of David Bowie in their 15th century costumes. A perfect Bowie-esque touch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Well, here we are at set 300. Seriously, who'd a thunk it?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I hit my 100th set on December 30, 2011 -- <b><a href="http://julia-mindovermatter.blogspot.ca/2011/12/5-on-friday-set-100.html">Set 100</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I hit my 200th set on December 6, 2013 -- <b><a href="http://julia-mindovermatter.blogspot.ca/2013/12/5-on-friday-set-200.html">Set 200</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">As we head for my 300th set, coming up next week, I'm in a mood to celebrate for two reasons. One is the fact that I'm almost at my milestone set.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have multiple chemical sensitivities and chronic pain/fibromyalgia among a few other things, which had reached critical-mass levels by late 2013. I somehow managed to crawl my way through 2014, but renovations at my day job ultimately led to my pre-emptive medical leave.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Happy New Year, Everyone! Hope you had a wonderful New Year's celebration last night. The photo above is a still from my favorite Russian New Year's movie <i><b><a href="http://julia-mindovermatter.blogspot.ca/2009/01/poetry-train-monday-82-i-asked-ash-tree.html">Ironiya sudby</a></b></i>, or <i>The Irony of Fate</i>. I fell in love with that film about seven years ago and I now watch it every year. In fact my husband and I will be doing just that, later this weekend.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As we head for my 300th set, coming up in two weeks, it's already time to launch my brand new once-a-month project for 2016.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This year I'll be focusing on <b>Songwriters</b>. Check back on the first Friday of each month as I take a look at the work of artists whose creative voices are most often brought to us through the performances of others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This month's look at Paul Williams' work shows the breadth of his composer's voice, from quirky scores (like one of my husband's favorite's, <i>The Phantom of the Paradise</i>) to universal hits. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you'd like to join in, simply choose five pieces of music and post them for other bloggers to enjoy. Then check out the set posted by the other </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">5 on Friday</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> blogger -- you can sign in over at </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://mjgolch.blogspot.ca/">Golch Central's Rambling Stuff</a></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I've been taking a once-a-month look at specific instruments and showcasing five songs or tunes which place that instrument front and center.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This year's feature has been <b>Spotlight On...</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">...and for our twelfth and final installment for 2015's year-long project, let's swing with <b>woodwinds</b>. I'm concentrating for this set mainly on flute, but there are a few recorders in these tracks. Flutes bring us full circle back to the ancient world. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We began the year listening to the primal body instruments of <b><a href="http://julia-mindovermatter.blogspot.ca/2015/01/5-on-friday-set-254.html">hand-clapping</a></b>, <b><a href="http://julia-mindovermatter.blogspot.ca/2015/02/5-on-friday-set-258-happy-8th.html"><span id="goog_920403697"></span>whistling<span id="goog_920403698"></span></a></b> and <b><a href="http://julia-mindovermatter.blogspot.ca/2015/03/5-on-friday-set-262.html">vocal harmonies</a></b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Moving on, we explored percussion with April's look at <b><a href="http://julia-mindovermatter.blogspot.ca/2015/04/a-to-z-blog-challenge-c-is-for-cadence.html">drums</a></b>, May's look at the <b><a href="http://julia-mindovermatter.blogspot.ca/2015/05/5-on-friday-set-270.html">vibraphone or vibes</a></b>, June's look at <b><a href="http://julia-mindovermatter.blogspot.ca/2015/06/5-on-friday-set-271.html">piano</a></b>, and wrapping things up with <b><a href="http://julia-mindovermatter.blogspot.ca/2015/07/5-on-friday-set-273.html">cowbell</a></b> in July.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In August I trained the spotlight on a favorite of mine, the <b><a href="http://julia-mindovermatter.blogspot.ca/2015/08/5-on-friday-set-278.html">bass guitar</a></b>. In </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">September we gave the stage over to that diva of instruments -- the <b><a href="http://julia-mindovermatter.blogspot.ca/2015/09/5-on-friday-set-282.html">lead guitar</a></b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For November, I focused on <b><a href="http://julia-mindovermatter.blogspot.ca/2015/11/5-on-friday-set-291.html">horn arrangements</a></b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">December wraps up this year's musical project with the mellow tones of the flute and recorder. Flutes have been played on battlefields, they've been played by shepherds on hillsides, they've been part of an orchestra or played by peasants. They generally evoke a feeling of the Everyman, as well as reaching back through time to our earliest ancestors. Flutes and recorders give a dual sense of being rooted, as well as the floating sensation suggested by the <i>wind</i> descriptor of <i>woodwind</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For all of you who have enjoyed this year's <b>Spotlight On</b> feature, I invite you to check back next week on New Year's Day for a brand new year-long project.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I've had such fun with the three I've done so far. I love taking up creative challenges like <b><a href="http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/">Blogging From A to Z</a></b> in April, or the <b><a href="http://nanowrimo.org/">NaNoWriMo</a></b> writing marathon in November. Deciding on a musical challenge for my <b>5 on Friday</b> feature is a way to broaden my own musical horizons.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I embarked on my first <b>5 on Friday</b> challenge in 2013 with the Birthday Boys/Birthday Girls project. I alternated male and female singers each month, beginning with <b><a href="http://julia-mindovermatter.blogspot.ca/2013/01/5-on-friday-set-152.html">January Birthday Boys</a></b>, to see what sort of music they bring us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 2014, I ran <b>The Hit Makers</b> feature, where I looked at different styles of music each month, five of my favorite artists in that style and what songs launched their careers. That was an amazing project, beginning with the <b><a href="http://julia-mindovermatter.blogspot.ca/2014/01/5-on-friday-set-204.html">British Invasion</a></b> set.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>1</b> - <i style="font-weight: bold;">Christmas All Over Again</i> - <b>Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>3</b> - <i style="font-weight: bold;">Early on One Christmas Morn</i> - <b>Bruce Cockburn</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As we head for my 300th set, coming up in five weeks, let's look back on some of the sets that have led to this milestone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Normally, the first set of the month is given over to the year's musical project, which for 2015 has been <b><a href="http://julia-mindovermatter.blogspot.ca/2015/11/5-on-friday-set-291.html">Spotlight On</a></b>. However, traditionally I also love to fill my December sets with Christmas music, so I end up delaying the final installment to the week between Christmas and New Year's.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Being a Christmas maniac from way back, I've been filling my Decembers at <b>A Piece of My Mind</b> with music since this blog began in 2007.</span></div>
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