Resilience, or…Starting a new career in middle age

Any complete career change is a crapshoot when you’re a middle-aged person. I have a Master’s degree which I never used, and from the time in the mid- 1970s when I graduated, I spent twelve years as a hospital pharmacy assistant, gaining one of the first licenses given out after they were required by Washington …

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Alphabet

This photo is, to my mind, absolutely priceless.  Signboard in front of the elementary school a block from where I work.  I did a double-take while driving by, and just had to stop and take a picture.  Do they not teach their employees to spell any more?  If the staff can't spell, are any of …

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Terror in Istanbul – The Turkish People Are Being Kept in the Dark!

Yes, it's true.  You have perhaps heard or read about the suicide-bombing this morning, near the Blue Mosque in Istanbul.  Shortly thereafter, it came out that the perpetrators were probably ISIS.  Due to their Islamist-leaning government, the Turkish people have had their internet access cut off, and web sites of news organizations blocked.  A friend …

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