I am blogging today from a write-in, which is basically where a bunch of writers get together and just, well, write!  It’s for National Novel Writing Month, popularly known as NaNoWriMo, which is basically the challenge to write 50,000 words of a novel just in the month of November.
This particular write-in is a 12-hour one [...]

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I recently read an article that said nursing home assaults are becoming more common — or at least, being reported more often.  This article demonstrates the growing awareness to a major problem: elder abuse.
Contrary to what many people think, elder abuse is not necessarily always physical abuse — although it certainly can be.  The term [...]

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Who wouldn’t love to be their own boss?  Imagine being in charge and running things the way you know they should be run.  Not having to do someone else’s bidding and being able to delegate tasks as you see fit.  Sounds like heaven, doesn’t it?  But who needs the hassle of starting something from the [...]

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Nonprofit organizations are constantly looking to raise funds in order to keep providing the services that they have to offer. With so many nonprofit organizations vying for donors and funds, it is important for them to stay creative in their fundraising ideas. People are inundated every year with fundraisers such as dinners, auctions and bingo [...]

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My friend Jack and I have a small business; we do house calls for car repair service.  We’ve been doing it for a few years and business has finally started picking up, so we want to hire another couple guys.
The downside is that we have to add another van or truck for service calls, which [...]

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There are many forms of speech disability.  Unfortunately, medical science still understands only a little about how the brain processes and arranges words into sentences.  Many areas of the brain are involved, and it’s difficult to pinpoint the location of particular areas, since individual brains vary quite a bit.  Patients with difficulty organizing or recalling [...]

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My brother is a year younger than me so we basically grew up together.  We have become very close through the years and now that we are in the university, we even share the same bed.
Our aunt lives near the university compound.  Our parents wanted to save money so instead of having to rent in [...]

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I am totally freaking out.  I have an interview for a division manager position at the local home improvement store in an hour.  This means that for the past three days, I’ve been looking up everything I never wanted to know about outdoor kitchens (the division I’ll be heading up).  There are more options than [...]

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My friend of five years, let’s just call her Kate, has bad breath.  Wikipedia calls bad breath halitosis, I call it obnoxious and embarrassing.  I’m embarrassed for her because I don’t know if she realizes how bad it is and I’m embarrassed for me because this is a close friend and I don’t want to [...]

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