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My Pen name is Alethia. I am originally from Long Island, New York.I have a B.S. in Elementary Ed. and taught in the public school system for three years in the state of Texas.My Specialization was in Reading,Writing,and Communication Skills.I am Trilingual.I

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Health & Fitness > Drug Legislation & Safety Should Americans be allowed to import and purchase safe and affordable prescription drugs from other nations?: 11 of 31

My husband has Type 2 diabetes.He takes three different prescriptions for this. He was diagnosed with this the year after we were married.We found out about it due to Immigration requiring a physical and through the Immigration Dr. found out he had Diabetes Type 2. my husband did not feel badly at all and was surprised that ...
Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: Overcoming challenges: 19 of 41

Through out our life time we all have unique challenges that we face in our life time.These challenges makes us unique individuals. No one has exactly the same challenges in their life time.When I was a child I had difficulty learning in school. I felt very frustrated especially in math and in having to read a lot of differe...
Jobs & Careers > Education Jobs How to get a job teaching ESL: 5 of 9

I taught Bilingual Education for two years in San Antonio,Texas.I taught ESL to Spanish speaking children.Before you look for this kind of job there are many things that one needs to consider.Usually you will need a specialized teaching certificate in the grade levels that you want to teach at. In Texas Elementary goes from ...
Travel > Travel Diaries & Adventures (Other) Why do you like where you currently live?: 57 of 93

I currently live in Cochrane, Alberta, Canada. I love it here. We are an hour away the the mountains and can actually see them out of our living room windows and also bedroom widows. We live outside of Calgary city limits. My husband works out of Cochrane so we do not have to go into the city very much.We moved up here becau...
Politics, News & Issues > Politics in the Middle & Near East Addressing the nation: What Bush should say about a new US Mideast policy: 9 of 14

We have been watching the news every day and waiting to find out what President Bush will say to the nation. Tonight is the night. I am sure that many of us will be listening hoping to hear what we want to hear but know he is going to go around the truth.We all know by now that he is only going to do a partial withdrawal of ...
Relationships & Family > Online Dating The best online dating websites: 3 of 4

When I was going to Sign Language School a girl friend of mine told me to the on line service called Mega friends.It was free and it was a way I could meet people from all over the world.I thought that I would try it and see what happens.I never thought that anything would come of it. I became pen pal friends with a man from...
Relationships & Family > Communication (Other) Thoughts and ideas that influence your life: 32 of 40

If you think that you can have an uncontested divorce forget it. It just does not seem to ever stay that way. I was married to my first husband for 27 years.I taught for three years bilingual kindergarten in San Antonio. It was in one of the poor districts in San Antonio.The first year of teaching I was making 500 dollars ta...
Personal Finance > Taxes How to avoid tax return preparer fraud: 4 of 5

Have I got a true story to tell everybody!In September of 2004 I decided that it was time to get divorced.I already met and fell in love with my husbsnd that I am with today.As you know, when you are a one income family because of special needs children involved it can be very costly to get a divorce.My husband Rick said tha...
Politics, News & Issues > US Leaders When George W. Bush leaves the presidency: What will he do?: 18 of 21

When President Bush is no longer in the White House he will probably retire at his Crawford Ranch in Texas.He will be sleeping in and playing golf.Yes. he will be remembered as the President that put us into arms way and did not know how to get us out but knew how to make a mess of things.The many stupid comments and actions...
Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: Male cat owners: 6 of 7

My sister happens to work in a no kill dog and cat shelter in Austin, Texas.When my daughter was in middle school my sister wanted to give her a male tabby cat for her birthday. We always had had dogs. My sister talked us getting into this cat.We named him Tiger. He was a beautiful gray cat.I told my sister that he to get al...