In This Time, Reading Not Writing, Listening Not Speaking — Life Considered

I’m in a weird place, blog-wise. I’ve enjoyed the 2020 re-boot, and I’ve been pretty consistent with my posts (at least one, usually two a month). But I missed June, despite a head full of thoughts (some of which I even managed to jot down in my journal). I’ve got at least four separate blog […]

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40 Sweet Quotes to make her Smile — Turtle Quotes

We should always try our best to make one another smile, and what better way to do so by sharing one of these quotes to make her (or him!) smile 🙂 Here at turtle quote we love to find quotes that help you express what you feel and we hope that you find the below […]

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What to America Is the Fourth of July… And, to Black America? — “Talking Drum Dialogues” (formerly ‘Backstreet Djeli’s Blog’)

by William “Duke” Smither “Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.”– Frederick Douglass (Author, Editor, Diplomat… and ‘Escaped Slave’) Over the years, while performing part-time as an actor with community theater-related productions, I was honored on occasion to portray the complex […]

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Black Voices in Contemporary War-Writing — Time Now

What does military service and veteran status mean to black American veterans? Few full-length novels, short-story collections, plays, poetry volumes, memoirs, or non-fiction studies by or about black American soldiers in the 21st-century have been published to help us answer the question. Off the top of my head, the only biographies I can think of […]

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Dunkirk’s lost love letters that have gathered dust for 80 years … until now — WhatsNew2Day

We must keep smiling – four simple words that resonate today just as they were written in the heat of battle 80 years ago. George Whayman was a young platoon sergeant major on Dunkirk Beach when he wrote a letter to his wife Ethel saying with characteristic optimism that, despite the circumstances, we are “getting […]

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How To Become A Better Writer — Made by Rachel

Blogging has always appealed to me because I consider myself to be a good writer, and I enjoy it. (I was the kid who voluntarily took writing workshops over the summer.) Coworkers and friends trust me to review their emails, edit their resumes, and help them come up with just the right word that articulates […]

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How To Improve Your Email Communication — Made by Rachel

As I was writing yesterday’s post, I realized that much of the writing and written communication that we do are in the form of email, whether we like it or not, and that all of the ‘etiquette’ and best practices around emailing warranted a completely separate post. Some of these tips will be the same […]

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