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Hazel Thornton was working as a telecommunications engineer in Pasadena, California in 1993 when she was summoned to jury duty. She served for 7 months as Juror #9 on the 1st Menendez brothers' murder trial, which ended with two hung juries. Her 1995 book, Hung Jury: The Diary of a Menendez Juror, was republished in 2018 with updated material.

She is now a retired professional organizer and active genealogist living in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her 2021 book, What's a Photo Without the Story? How to Create Your Family Legacy, will help you tell the stories of your photos, family, and things at your choice of effort level. Her 2023 book, Go With the Flow! The Clutter Flow Chart Workbook, will help clutter FLOW right out of your home, office, ...more

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Living and working BY DEFAULT means choosing the easiest path, either by unconsciously resorting to bad habits (or merely old ones that no longer serve you), or by maintaining the status quo. Sometimes we seek to avoid the conflict that can come with making a change. Sometimes we feel we have no choice in the matter. But I’m with Henry Ford, who said, “Whether you think you can,

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