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    How to Be an Author: RESEARCH IS AN ESSENTIAL INGREDIENT

    For many of us, our first writing assignment came in the form of a book report. Teachers used these reports as a way to accomplish several lessons without revealing to their unsuspecting students that they were learning a complex process. First, the report required a title. In going over the parts of the book, the teacher pointed out that the title of the book was found on the title page. Some of the more inquisitive students noticed the title also appeared on the book jacket and in a few instances on the cover of the book. When the student advanced to paperbacks, the book jacket disappeared and the title magically…

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    How to Be an Author: FLOW

    Anyone can write. During my thirty years in the teaching profession, one of the most obnoxious remarks I heard from various sources was, “Anyone can teach.” Right, and anyone can sing, draw, paint, dance, throw, catch, fix, repair, assess, analyze, evaluate, follow, lead, describe, prescribe, inscribe, insert, invest, invent, prevent, predict, presume, consume, conspire and concede that anyone can write. One of the few positive outcomes from the scourge we are currently experiencing, Coronavirus or COVID-19, comes as the result of schools closing and millions of children being at home with their parents, who for one reason or another find themselves at home. The task of teaching a child or…

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    For Your Amusement: IT’S A HOAX

    I’m sure you were relieved twhen The DJT told everyone last week the truth about the coronavirus. IT’S A HOAX perpetrated by the Democrats to bring him down. You may have grown a bit concerned when he handed off the ball to Vice President Pence over the weekend. But don’t be concerned, that’s just to cover all the bases. In reality, all this medical mumbo jumbo doesn’t matter because IT’S A HOAX. We know we can trust The DJT because when he insisted his predecessor prove he was born in the US, he took one look at his Hawaiian birth certificate and proclaimed IT’S A HOAX. When The DJT claimed…