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I'm a freelance writer living in the northern United States with my life partner Bill, our Malamute Rocket, and Franz the cat. For the past six years I have worked in direct banking and property & casualty insurance. I'm good at both, but neither is what

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Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: 10 things I hate about the world we live in: 21 of 230

This weekend my partner and I found ourselves without electricity for a day and a half. To my surprise, I enjoyed it. Time seemed to actually change, both in speed and in quality. The day felt longer, I got more done, I felt more relaxed, I read half of a book I've been meaning to look at for months: Barbara Ehrenrich's Bait...
Sciences > Astronomy What constitutes UFO evidence?: 1 of 10

Most UFO evidence is not good evidence. Bad evidence (which we have in abundance) includes 1) blurry nighttime photos of blobs of light with no point of reference, 2) fake photographs, 3) eyewitness accounts, 4)anecdotal accounts or declassified government documents that are so blacked out they are impossible to read, 5) spe...
Health & Fitness > Diet Programs Is a low-carb diet for you?: 1 of 9

Low-carb diets require the near-elimination of an entire food group: carbohydrates. This ban can mean anything from several weeks of severely restricted carbs on the South Beach diet to all the way to no carbs ever for the rest of your life on Atkins. If you have a very sedentary lifestyle and are steadily gaining weight, th...
Politics, News & Issues > Economic News Will rising gas prices in America cause an economic depression?: 3 of 22

Rising gas prices will cause an economic depression, not just in the US, but worldwide, unless our dependence on oil and other nonrenewable energy sources is reversed within the next three to five years. The cause of this depression will not be the increased expense of getting around in our vehicles and heating our homes. Th...
Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: Becoming aware of racism: 5 of 31

When I was almost a teenager, back in the early 60s, my friends and I used to ride the bus downtown to window shop and buy ice cream and just generally waste time. Back then all the stores were in the center of town and everyone dressed up and rode the bus there to shop. Although I grew up in the industrial mid-west, not the...
Parenting & Pregnancy > Parenting Teens How to encourage teens to cook: 3 of 17

The best way to encourage your teen to cook is to start cooking with them when they are small children. Most small children are naturally curious about everything, especially anything that involves eating something delicious at the end of the activity. If your small child sees you enjoy cooking, he or she will want to be inc...
Health & Fitness > Nutrition Basics Guide to high-protein foods: 2 of 8

Americans get plenty of protein, even when we are not on low carb diets. Quality protein, however, is much harder to come by. The very best protein to consume while on a low carb eating plan is protein that is low in fat and low in additives. That leaves out most commercially grown beef, pork, and chicken, but good alternati...
Personal Finance > Auto Insurance How to find the best car insurance coverage for you: 1 of 4

The way to find the best car insurance coverage is to first take a look at who you are and what kind of car you own. Are you a young man with a an old beater and no other real financial assets? Or are you a middle-aged professional with a household full of licensed young adults and multiple newer vehicles? Do you live alone ...
Health & Fitness > Health Testimonies Getting medical care in America: 1 of 4

First, let me just start by saying I have "good" health insurance. It gets more expensive and covers less every year, but it is still considered good insurance and I have it. I stay at a job I hate just so that I can keep it. Still, when I fell two weeks ago and twisted my knee on the way down, I already knew from past exper...
Politics, News & Issues > US Elections US elections 2008: Obama's relationship with Jeremiah Wright viewed through the prism of Geraldine Ferraro's racial comments: 1 of 4

The furor over the comments of Reverend Jeremiah Wright and Geraldine Ferraro prove that we have not come as far as we think we have on this race issue in this country. It is comfortable to think that slavery is something that happened in America's deep past and that everything is fine now and we are all above all that uglin...