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Here’s to the year 2020!
Two major events (well, more than that, but two that are primary in pushing me back into business) happened in my life over the past several months: My baby sister and her husband started an alpaca ranchno, I don’t think that decision was based on a midlife crisisand they asked me to help create a…
Where have I been this time?
I explain—or maybe excuse—my recent absence with this explanation: Over the past two years, four events have caused a distraction in my life: the death of my father, relocating from Orlando back to Raleigh, returning to more-than-full-time work at the state Museum of History, and disappointing a major client. Along the way, I’m afraid I…
How can I help with a personal history?
My father and I have different talents when it comes to researching and recording family history: he does genealogy; I do personal history and family history. In other words, in my mind, at least, he does the bones (or the branches and limbs of the family tree, to say it as he might prefer) and…
The art of the rag
I don’t know if that raised your eyebrows or not, but unless you are an instructional designer you may not have known what “the rag” is. In simple terms, in publishing, the rag is the uneven, or ragged, edge of a block of text. What that means is that this paragraph, which is aligned so…
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