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    September Signature Feature: Hidden Sunlight by Stellar

    By Cia

    Well, after a longer haitus than usual, we're back! This is a long, long story by an author many of us have enjoyed for years. Have you read this classic story? It's a go to favorite of mine when I'm looking for that apocalyptic style OMG WHAAAAT story, even though I know exactly what's going to happen, I still love it. Give it a try, especially if you love a LONG read!  Length: 175,313 Description: Facing a life-changing medical procedure, 14 year old Shay approaches it with the
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Relationships

E.C.T.

ECT (electroconvulsive therapy)can be an effective albeit last resort treatment for suicidal ideation.  When my husband came to me to say he'd discussed this treatment option with his psychiatrist, I was at once afraid and sad. ECT had been discussed several years ago. It was left behind on the table in favour of other treatments.  The other treatments which worked had slowly, over the years, become less effective. tim told me that the voices that urged him to take his life had become stron
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Education

The Halfway Point of My Paralegal Training

Holy crap, it's getting real now. So yeah, I just finished the 3rd module of my paralegal training with a 93 class average. (Open notebook testing but that doesn't make it as easy as you might think it would be.) I'm throwing myself full force into this, and seeing where things go. I'll be at graduation before I know it! And then...the job search. I don't know if I'm really ready for that again, but I'm excited to find out where this all could take me. I've been pretty lucky that I have a p
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Blog

We All Resist in Our Own Way

Yesterday, I visited my tattooist. I had given him the parameters for a new tattoo. I wanted the inclusive pride flag, tattered and marred but still flying. And with it, the symbol of the Social Democratic Party of 1932 Germany. The Social Democratic Party was the only real opposition to Hitler and the nazis (the only party to vote against the Enabling Act responsible for the authority Hitler gained to send people to their deaths in concentration camps). Though ultimately defeated, they fou
Wayne Gray

Wayne Gray in Blog

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Blog

Politics - They FAFO, we all pay

Yesterday, my clinic system had an emergency meeting. That's because we're an FQHC - Federally Qualified Health Center, and about 40% of our patient population has Medicaid as their coverage (insurance). Medicaid is how these people pay for their healthcare - everything from vaccinations to pregnancy care to emergency visits. Medicaid literally saves millions of lives from preventable deaths every year. The trump administration attempted to freeze all federal grants yesterday. And for a mom
Wayne Gray

Wayne Gray in Blog

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Writing Tips and Help

Middles: Nuances and Distinctions

Ben's Bumblings- Entry 1/24/2025 Middles: Nuances and Distinctions Note: I am a novice level writer. Everything I say should be taken with a grain of salt or disregarded as I bumble my way around. This blog entry is dedicated to Nuances and Distinctions that I struggled with halfway into the writing of my first novel: Showing What Another Character Is Thinking While Being Limited to the Main Character’s Overall Point of View These are examples I gathered from the communi
New Year

Another year gone… Stand back, here comes a new year.

Hello my faithful followers. i hope that you had a happy and safe Christmas and enjoy the approaching New Year celebrations. (Just two hours and 41 minutes away here in WA Australia…) I am currently writing a new story, which i will start posting soon. I recently learnt that i have cataracts in both eyes and i have surgery planned for both in mid and late January, just a few weeks away. Not sure how it will turn out, but here is hoping that all will be good afterwards. i will
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