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My Freelancer Manifesto
This writing assignment, in a Q&A format, comes from a Seth Godin Freelancer course I am taking, titled "A Course for Freelancers who want to move up." In line 1 Godin tells me to make my answers public, so as an obedient student, here they are. (Do...
Life in LOCKDOWN
U.S. Life in LOCKDOWN! “When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people, if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my...
Daylight Savings Time
Daylight Savings Time Many people outside the US find this hard to believe, but twice every year, most Americans--some 300 million people--all change their clocks! In November, we move our clocks BACK one hour. In March, we move our clocks FORWARD one hour. Since...
Paul Harvey: “And that’s the REST of the story!”
Growing up, I loved listening to the radio. With today's technology, radio now almost sounds like stone-age know-how, but the AM and FM sound waves opened up new worlds to me as a young listener in Virginia. During many summers I sat by the road with my little red...
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