Not long ago, I needed to make extra money – fast. My solution was to bid for writing jobs on freelancing websites. On these sites, clients post writing jobs, and you bid on how much you are willing to be paid. To sell, you create a profile page where you list your services, display scores […]
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For my tenth birthday, right before Halloween, my brother and I transformed our ordinary house into a majestic creepy palace of horrors. It was originally my idea. I loved haunted houses, and had been deeply disappointed with the one at my school Halloween carnival. Though the “haunted house” there had cost me money, it had
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First, thanks to everyone who liked, shared, or made comments about my last post, \”The Temptation to Become a Facebook Warrior.\” Your comments about my writing sent me into orbit, and I was happy to discover that I had given expression to what some of you have been feeling. I have been really busy this
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Click like if you agree. I stared at the Facebook article on my computer screen, entitled “Explaining Democratic Socialism to a Republican.” I had just read the article – and now my finger was itching to click “like.” What made me pause was imagining how my conservative friends and relatives would react. They would never
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Note: This was a children\’s story I wrote in my college creative writing class. I sent it to Ranger Rick and got some praise from the editor, but it was never published. At the time I could not see why, but when recently rereading it, I saw how in places the prose is choppy, and
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