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Family History: choices, not genetics

December 31, 2020 by Margaret Duarte

Family History: choices, not genetics

Interest in ethnic origin searches and genealogical DNA testing has become one of the most popular hobbies in the US. Over-the-counter genetic test kits alone have developed into a billion-dollar industry. Just give your personal information to one or more genetic databases, and, in exchange, sites, such as myheritage.com, genealogy.com, ancestry.com, and genealogybank.com offer easy […]

Filed Under: Book Talk, For Readers, For Writers, Lifestyle, Spirituality, Visionary Fiction Tagged With: Between Will and Surrender, DNA testing, Esselen tribe, Family history, genetic test kits, Native American Medicine Whee

Psycho Cybernetics; self-image psychology

October 25, 2020 by Margaret Duarte

Psycho Cybernetics; self-image psychology

In 1960, Maxwell Maltz, a plastic surgeon from New York, published a book on self-image psychology and goal visualization called Psycho Cybernetics. In it, he introduced the analogy of the brain as a cybernetic “servo-mechanism”, like a computer designed to find a path to the target it is programmed with. Maltz suggests that you… 1. […]

Filed Under: For Readers, For Writers, Lifestyle Tagged With: Enter the Between, Maxwell Maltz, psychocybernetics, self image psychology

Cows are Tough Critics

June 19, 2020 by Margaret Duarte

Cows are Tough Critics

I brought BETWEEN NOW AND FOREVER, book four of my “Enter the Between” visionary fiction series, to my backyard friends for their input. After all, the story excerpt I planned to share concerned them–their moos to be exact. Happy cows are quiet cows as this video demonstrates. But, oh my, when their moos get loud […]

Filed Under: Book Talk, Lifestyle, Uncategorized Tagged With: Between Now and Forever, Cows as critics, Enter the Between, Margaret Duarte, visionary fiction, vlog

Dire Plight of the Western Monarch Butterfly

January 12, 2020 by Margaret Duarte

Dire Plight of the Western Monarch Butterfly

In 2003, when I started writing book three of my “Enter the Between” fiction series, I knew the Monarch Butterfly would play a major role in the story: as part of the natural setting of Pacific Grove (home to my story and to the Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary) and as the symbolic representation of transformation and […]

Filed Under: Book Talk, For Readers, Lifestyle Tagged With: Between Yesterday and Tomorrow, Margaret Duarte, monarch butterfly, Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary, Pacific Grove, Western Monarch

Reading Regularly Can Improve Your Health

August 7, 2018 by Margaret Duarte

Reading regularly can improve your life

Did you get this month’s issue of Costco Connection in the mail (It really has some great articles)? If you did, check out “Reading for Life” in the For Your Health section. It confirms what I’ve believed for a long time: “Reading regularly can help you live longer and better.” Yes, reading regularly for 30 minutes a […]

Filed Under: Book Talk, For Readers, For Writers, Lifestyle Tagged With: Costco Connection, Enter the Between, Francine Prose, Margaret Duarte, Nancy Monson, Oprah Magazine, Reading for Life, Reading Like a Writer, Stephanie Sheaffer

Elk Grove Citizen’s Lifestyle

August 2, 2013 by Margaret Duarte

Elk Grove Citizen's Lifestyle

The following article about how my family came to California from Holland and settled in Elk Grove was published on August 1, 2013 in Elk Grove Citizen’s Lifestyle section by Elizabeth Pinkerton. Elk Grove’s Multicultural Festival is Aug. 24 and to celebrate our diversity, today’s focus is on another Supergrad, Margaret van Steyn Duarte (Class of ‘67). […]

Filed Under: For Readers, For Writers, Life on the Farm, Lifestyle Tagged With: Elizabeth Pinkerton, Elk Grove Citizen, Margaret Duarte

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