Margaret Duarte

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The Between: A scary place

“The between” is a scary place most of us don’t enter willingly. Instead, we’re catapulted there by a life-changing event, which in fiction is called the “inciting incident.”

Like the fictional hero, we enter “the between” kicking and screaming and confront obstacles and tests we aren’t prepared or equipped to handle.

We face-plant over and over, or so it seems, until we finally surrender to the new circumstances of our life-journey and decide to go with the flow instead of against it.

A place to learn and change

Then it’s amazing what we learn and how we change.

Welcome to my website and blog where my mission is to take the scary out of the between and offer, instead, a place where we can learn and change together.

“Out there beyond who is right and who is wrong there is a field. I’ll meet you there.”   —Rumi

“The shortest distance in the world is between you and yourself. The space in question is tiny. Yet what goes on in this little space determines nearly everything about the kind of person you are and about the kind of life you are living.”  –John O’Donohue

Thanks for stopping by,

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About Margaret Duarte

Former middle school teacher, Margaret Duarte, lives on a California dairy farm with a herd of “happy cows,” a constant reminder that the greenest pastures lie closest to home. Margaret earned her creative writing certificate through UC Davis Extension and has since published four novels in her “Enter the Between” visionary fiction series: Between Will and Surrender, Between Darkness and Dawn, Between Yesterday and Tomorrow, and Between Now and Forever. Her poem and story credits include SPC Tule Review; The California Writers Club Literary Review; finalist in the 2017 SLO Nightwriters Golden Quill Writing Contest; First Place winner for fiction in 2016, Second Place winner for fiction in 2018, Honorable Mention for fiction in 2019, and Gold winner for fiction in 2020 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLISHERS AND AUTHORS Book Awards Competition; 2019 California Author Project winner for adult fiction.

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  1. Rosi says

    Congratulations on your new look and new blog. It looks great! Since I don’t want to miss anything, I will re-subscribe. Maybe I’ll get two notifications, but that would be better than missing what you have to say.

  2. admin says

    Thanks so much, Rosi for your support. It’s been a lot of work setting up a self-hosted website through WordPress.org, but I know it will be well worth it in the end. For now, I intend to continue to use my blogspot “Enter the Between” blog to share personal/fun stuff not necessarily related to my books/writing. Time will tell.

  3. admin says

    Oh, and Rosi. I haven’t finished putting up my blogroll here yet. When I do, be sure I will include your website there!

  5. admin says

    Thanks, Ken. It’s so nice to know that a fellow grammar school classmate has stopped by to visit my site.

  6. RoyelleDiamond says

    Love your “stuff” and admire anyone who can stick to it in spite of the detours that life takes us. You are indeed a kindred spirit in your love of the world that is us.

  7. admin says

    Hi Royelle. Thanks so much for the visit and for leaving a comment. We are indeed kindred spirits in our love of the world that is us. With my new website/blog up and running, I’m finally ready to start posting about all the truely amazing information I’ve gathered about spiritual and emotional freedom and health for my four novels. There’s so much, I don’t know where to begin. I’m hoping that with input from visitors like you, I’ll soon find a starting point.