There are a couple of sides to writing. One is creating fabulous stuff that makes you proud and helps you build a portfolio. The other is creating stuff that gets you attention and goes viral, which ...

1. Horus (3100 B.C.) Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Horus was one of the many Egyptian Gods. He had 12 disciples. One was born of a virgin in a cave. Like Jesus, his birth was announced via a star. And ...

You’ve lost your job. After a couple of months of unemployment, your savings are depleted. You’ve lost your house, or you’re about to. You’re a single parent. You have $1,000 ?to your name.? Can you ...

Ted Millar is writer and teacher. His work has been featured in myriad literary journals, including Better Than Starbucks, The Broke Bohemian, Straight Forward Poetry, Caesura, Circle Show, Cactus ...

We watch our favorite news shows daily, but how much do we really know about the people who anchor the shows we love? Unlike “celebrities,” news anchors don’t usually have public lives. I’ve pulled ...

...Purity Ball is a formal event where girls or young women and their fathers participate in a ceremony. The daughters dress up in ball gowns and the evening usually consists of dinner, a keynote ...

“To live in this process is absolutely not to be able to notice it—please try to believe me-unless one has a much greater degree of political awareness, acuity, than most of us had ever had occasion ...

“Let me thank the Koch brothers, of all people, for sponsoring a study that shows that Medicare- for-All would save the American people $2 trillion dollars. I suspect that that is not what the Koch ...

Zen Wendi did some research in the AP Style Guide for us on the use of quotation marks. One of my goals with this site is to make us all better writers, and for sure to give good writers who are ...

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“ [The bill] calls attention to the cumbersome nature of the state’s current absentee ballot system, in which voters must first apply to the Board of Elections in order to receive a ballot in the mail ...

38 Two days after the first presidential debate against Democratic rival Joe Biden, at which Donald Trump refused to condemn white supremacist groups, even instructing the white supremacist group “ ...