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So many of us now spend a large part of our days and our lives on the internet. Our jobs require us to use business programs, email addresses, and online business conference sites. Our schools use various sites on the internet as sources for learning new information and teaching new skills. You would think we would be tired of being online at the end of a busy work day or school day. However, Facebook, Twitter,…..
To complete this week of discussing the social media, I have just decided to end it with a humorous blog in the form of one of my poems. Often Facebook can be so frustrating to me even though I really enjoy chatting with my 5000 friends around the 71 countries. It is so inspiring and interesting to learn about other people’s lives and cultures. However, as many of you know well, the internet and Facebook do…..
Social media networking sites, such as Facebook, Twitter, Skype, and Yahoo Messenger, are really fun and interesting ways to meet new people and keep in touch with old friends and family members. However, you have to be very careful about the information you put on these sites because it can lead to embarrassment and incidents of stalking, identity theft, and harassment. I personally have recently experienced a hacker on my computer and harassment from people…..
I do not really believe in the idea of reincarnation, but many times in my life I have felt as if I could have been part of another life or another time period. I say this because of my overwhelming attraction to Egypt most of my life. Even as a child, I dreamed of visiting Egypt as I have stated in previous blogs. I have always felt the need to be a part of this culture and…..
As a high school Language Arts and English teacher for thirty-seven years in American public schools, I have taught many courses in all types of writing—short stories, dramas, poems, research papers, essays, and other expository forms. I have evaluated thousands of student compositions and written projects, but I never really had the time to sit down and write myself until after my retirement in May 2008. At first, I only wrote a few personal essays about my life for my…..
Living in any foreign country even during a peaceful time can be problematic, but living in one during a major revolutionary period creates an enormously challenging experience with a unique set of obstacles to overcome. I experienced this not once but three times now country of Egypt.
My first exposure to Egypt’s protests was in May 2011. I spent twenty-one days there. The first revolution had just ended a few months before this with the overthrow of…..
March 29, 201
People sometimes ask me this question: How did you arrive at this title for your book and why is it so long?
Writing my book was relatively easy for me. I completed the original draft in approximately two months and then revised it during the third month. The words came so freely. Naming the chapters was also not difficult. The titles seemed to be the right ones to describe the information in each chapter. However,…..
People often ask me what motivated me to write a book about Egypt. That is really a very easy question to answer.
I have always been fascinated with Egypt and its ancient antiquities. Even as a child, I dreamed of visiting the Great Pyramids in Giza, gazing into the eyes of the Great Sphinx, and sailing far away in a boat on the majestic Nile River. In 1996 this dream finally came true. My husband…..