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April 4, 2020
FLORIDA: YOU CAN NOW GET TWO-WEEKS’ WORTH OF FROZEN VEGAN CARIBBEAN DINNERS DELIVERED
A report by Anna Starostinetskaya for Veg News.
Popular restaurant DaJen Eats goes digital with chef-prepared dishessuch as Jerk Pesto Penne Pasta, Fish N Grits, and Hoax Tail Lasagneto help Floridians stay at home in style.Florida-based vegan restaurant DaJen Eats Cafe & Creamery recently launched Exclusively Irie: Personal Chef Meals, a vegan meal program to accommodate its customers who are staying at home during the coronavirus pandemic. The new program features a...
April 3, 2020
Colorism Healing 2020 Contest – I’m Humbled . . .
Haikubes – April 3rd, 2020
Is distance learning Ritual, not logical? Laptop chimes its *hest.
*archaic word for behest
April 2, 2020
Haikubes – April 2nd, 2020
Last night as I played Haikubes and prepared photos for upload, I noticed that it was taking an abnormal amount of time to work . . . and then there were lots of uploading errors. So tonight Im going to post the poem I crafted after I rolled the Haikubes.
Theme and direction: A dream about my family
Three sons: dimpled cheeks.
Moonlight whispers gentle dreams
Hmmm. Everyone safe.
April 1, 2020
Haikubes – April 1st, 2020
Photo by Aaron Burden on Pexels.com
March 31, 2020
Tomorrow is the First Day of National Poetry Month!
Yes, indeed! April is National Poetry Month and I know just how to celebrate it by playing Haikubes!
March 27, 2020
Jamaica’s Chinese community offers aid
A report by Mark Cummings for the Jamaica Observer.
Amidst growing concerns over the hardships being created by the onset of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), the Chinese community in Jamaica says it has donated food and personal items valued at several million dollars to State agencies and needy communities.
This is our home, too, and especially in this time of crisis, in which people are losing their jobs and there is an increasing need for food and personal items, we...
March 23, 2020
Lessons from the 1918 Flu Pandemic, When Many Schools Closed
History. Do with it what you will, but I hope that what you will to do is wise.
I was recently contacted by a journalist who asked me if there was any precedent for the current school closings in response to a health crisis.
My first impulse was to say no, based on my knowledge of history, but I started googling before responding.
I googled school closings and 1918 flu epidemic and found this excellent article by Alexandra M. Stern, Marin S. Cetron, and Howard Markel,...
How To Craft a One-Page Synopsis Using Story Beats
by Sue Coletta
The dreaded synopsis. Anyone whos chosen the traditional path into publishing know that these pesky buggers are enough to drive a writer to drinkliterally.
I have good news and bad. The good news is Ive found a solution to help keep your liver intact. The bad, no matter how much you might hate writing these little darlings, a synopsis is the only way of selling your book to a publisher. You will have to learn.
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Cuban doctors head to Italy to battle coronavirus
Nelson Acosta (Reuters) reports that Cuba has sent a brigade of medical personnel to northern Italy:
Communist-run Cuba said it dispatched a brigade of doctors and nurses to Italy for the first time this weekend to help in the fight against the novel coronavirus at the request of the worst-affected region Lombardy.
The Caribbean island has sent its armies of white robes to disaster sites around the world largely in poor countries since its 1959 revolution. Its doctors were...
