Claire Conger

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Entries from May 2020

Omarosa’s White House

May 12th, 2020 · No Comments

Omarosa’s Unhinged: An Insider’s Account of the Trump White House is pretty much what I expected, an accounting of her time in the White House saying, in effect, “I did everything right, but I was treated unfairly.” Her account of Trumpworld is much the same as that in Fire and Fury or Fear, just different details and a more intimate point of view.

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Fear

May 12th, 2020 · No Comments

At first I didn’t want to read Bob Woodward’s Fear: Trump in the White House. Fear is told in such an “I was there” voice, I wondered how much was fiction. Not much, I concluded. Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House says pretty much the same things.

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Watercolor as a Calming Activity

May 7th, 2020 · No Comments

These days I need a calming activity that I can do at home. Painting works. The key for me is to let go of the outcome. Often, when I’m working on a new greeting card, I don’t at all like my art, but hours later, I look at it again and I’m happy with it. I can accomplish more if I reserve judgement while I’m working.

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The Devil in Bannon

May 6th, 2020 · No Comments

Remember Steve Bannon? He was advisor to our boy Trump until Bannon upstaged Trump and landed on the cover of Time Magazine as “The Great Manipulator” (February 2017).

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Trading Stocks in these Tumultuous Times

May 3rd, 2020 · No Comments

Want to trade stocks, but the market is making you nervous? Read The Essence of Trading Psychology In One Skill.

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