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The Department of Non Education
You are scrolling through a feed, and see a question on the top of the post. We queried one hundred college students. Out of curiosity, you want to know what they asked our young educated kids. It’s a simple question really. What year what the Declaration of Independence?
By Alexandra Grantabout a month ago in Humans
Catching Fish
Anyone who fishes, knows, there is an art to catching fish. You need the right environment and weather, the right, bait or lure, and a bit of wisdom and finesse, in the way you cast out. It’s an art really. Not everyone can catch fish, and be good at it. Then there is the whole question of ethics.
By Alexandra Grantabout a month ago in Humans
Paying Rent Pandemic
Why do I have to pay a monthly rent to buy something at a fair price? I can’t for the life of me imagine how this makes any sense. If you want my dollars, you post your goods and I’ll buy them, if they are priced well and of good quality.
By Alexandra Grantabout a month ago in Humans
Poof! It's gone.
I rub three time. Nothing. I do it again. Nothing. I whisper a prayer. nothing changes. One more time, to no avail. Wait! I have it somewhere. I’ll look for it. My magic eight ball. I find it and ask it if I will be able to write today? Its reply, “without a doubt.” I do it again and ask the same question. “Outlook not so good.” This is insane! Make up your mind, already. Final time, “will I be able to write, today?” I turn the wicked little thing and get, “Concentrate and ask again.”
By Alexandra Grantabout a month ago in Writers
Fee for Service
Before you let your brain wander on the title, this is not about sex. Keep reading anyway. I’ll give you a great, exciting, enticing, beautiful and everything you have ever dreamed, story, I’ll have get it to you in two days. I promise. I’ll need you to pay for this privilege, a once a year fee of $140.
By Alexandra Grantabout a month ago in Humans
Hand to the Fire
I keep touching the hot stove top. It keeps singeing my hand and I don’t know how to make the pain stop. Maybe if I touch it on the hottest part, the pain will stop. OUCH! What the hell. Why does it keep hurting me, burning me? And why, am I blistering. I know, let me increase the fire and touch it again. If it burns off the blisters, then the pain will stop. One of these times it has to stop. I’ll just keep changing it up a little here and a little there, until it does.
By Alexandra Grantabout a month ago in Humans
Fly Your Flag
“You are such a freak!” “Why can’t you be normal?” “Would it be so hard for you to be like everyone else?” “ You like what?’ “You do that?” “ Why would you, want that, or want to do that or like that?” Sound familiar? I bet a vast majority of us have. I know I did and often still do.
By Alexandra Grant2 months ago in Humans
Let's Celebrate a Beheading
I am confused. The entire world spends billions on a holiday, that should not even be such. Not one person, can tell me why they do, or why it is celebrated to begin with. I am taking about Valentine’s day. One of the biggest money makers for commercialism in the world. So, why do we take this one day a year to express love to our dearly devoted.
By Alexandra Grant2 months ago in Humans
