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Steve Bagdanov

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We Have a Book Title!

The dream of a book was formed, ideas were developed, pages were written, a publisher was found, the manuscript was submitted … and now we have a book title!

Sounds silly, doesn’t it? Seems like a book title should be finalized a lot earlier than this. But writing the book really was a process with twists and turns, so the title wasn’t always clear.

When the book was done and the publishers had a chance to review it, the title itself was fairly easy to figure out. But then the subtitle took dozens of emails and a lot of feedback …

Book Reviews, Junkyard Management, Random Thoughts,

Journey of Hope

What is hope? The meaning of hope has been on my mind lately, so I’ve decided to think more on the topic in 2015. It seems both healthy and timely.
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We live in an era when millions of good things are happening, yet we grow weary with despair. We worry about our broken political system, the rise of extremism, the violence in our schools, the pervasiveness of greed in our culture, the wealth disparity, high taxes, ISIS, the Byzantine health care system, immigration reform, Putin/Russian aggression, measles outbreaks, and out of control social media.

It’s endless what we can find …