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Charles A. Ray's Blog
September 16, 2009
- Learn to forgive and forget. That’s what my grandmother always told me when I was a child. It all seemed so easy then. When you’re young, nothing is so important that it can’t be pushed aside, and besides, your attention span is so short, things are usually forgotten in the space of a day any way.When you get older, it gets harder. The nasty things that adults do to each other make ...
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September 15, 2009
- Let your voice be heard. We need health care reform in the United States, and we need it now. Go to the following website if you support the public option, and register your opinion.http://www.WeWantThePublicOption.com/
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August 7, 2009
- Note: I don't do a lot of book reviews any more, but I recently read a novel by first-time author Stephen O'Reilly, a New Englander with a twisted view of the world as reflected in the way he writes. This book will set your head spinning and really make you think. If you like your fiction neatly pigeonholed into a genre, you probably won’t like Stephen O’Reilly’s Falls the Shadow. ...
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August 5, 2009
- What do I obsess about? What are the thoughts that rumble around my brain incessantly, intruding on the mundane affairs of daily life? If these questions don’t themselves cause obsessions, I’m probably without any. As a government employee by day (I have to eat and pay the bills) and a free lance writer and photographer the rest of the time, I have enough junk clattering around in my ...
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July 29, 2009
- When I’d finally prepared the final version of the manuscript for my first book, Things I Learned from My Grandmother About Leadership and Life, I breathed a big sigh of relief and hit send to fire it off to the publisher. A couple of months later when I received the galley proofs, I read over them – carefully, I thought – made a few changes and quickly returned them. Assuming that ...
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July 18, 2009
- Partisan bickering has always been a part of the American political landscape. In their efforts to sway the American electorate, political parties have always relied on core political themes. The polarized atmosphere has, however, seemed to have reached new heights in recent decades – with highly charged partisan positions and semi-literate ranting taking the place of the kind of debate ...
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June 30, 2009
- I continue to ride Washington's Metrorail system to and from work because it beats having to sit in traffic for hours each and breath in the exhaust of millions of cars. Having said that, as I observe my fellow commuters each day, I have to wonder if we are getting dumber in this country, or what.I watched a guy the other day, wait until the subway car doors were almost closed before thrusting ...
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May 26, 2009
- Fellow Helium writer M.J. Joachim featured my article on the difference between Memorial Day and Veterans' Day on her blog recently. To check it out, go to http://mjjoachimmeetsheliummembers.blogspot.com/ Her blog, which provides advice and tips to writers, can be found at http://mjjoachim.blogspot.com/ . Check it out.
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May 8, 2009
- Reading the paper today, I was dismayed to note an AP article indicating that many people are viewing recent government actions regarding the mercifully mild first wave of the H1N1 epidemic as “overblown,” and accusing the media of engaging in fear mongering. People are apparently upset that their comfortable daily routines were upset; they had to take care of their kids instead of ...
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May 1, 2009
- Recently, vice President Joe Biden stated publicly that he was advising his family to avoid crowed modes of transportation such as subways and airplanes during the current flu epidemic. Predictably, a travel industry representative took Biden to task for this statement. Now, there were some really high sounding reasons for the criticism, but the bottom line is the travel industry is worried ...
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April 24, 2009
- Texting, twitter and all the other ubiquitous instant messaging methods are surely going to spell the death of the written language; or it would seem that way if you read all the blogs, editorials, articles and predictions that our obsession with these abbreviated forms of communication are ruining civilized discourse and rendering us ultimately incapable of written ...
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April 5, 2009
- Following is a speech delivered at the closing session of the 10th Southern Interdisciplinary Roundtable on African Studies (SIRA) at Kentucky State University, Frankfort, KY on April 4, 2009. Africa is a continent of remarkable contrasts. On the one hand, it has some of the world’s richest deposits and collections of resources such as diamonds, petroleum, gold and other ...
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February 24, 2009
- I recently commented on another writer's blog about abuse of social networking websites. Some of my comment was tongue in cheek, but the whole thing got me thinking about the phenomenom of virtual communities. My day job is with the federal government, and many know that the feds are currently wrestling with what to do about social networking web sites. I was in a meeting not ...
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February 22, 2009
- Following is the text of remarks I delivered at the closing of the 22d Annual Black Management Association Conference, Kellogg School of Business, Northweswtern University, Chicago, IL, on February 21, 2009. Today, as never before, we need enlightened, effective leadership. We need leadership that is focused on recognizing and finding solutions to the problems that ...
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February 14, 2009
- The following is the text of a speech I delivered at Black History Month activities at Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD on February 12, 2009. I would like readers to note that although I refer in the speech to 'men,' everyone should be aware that we are sending young men and women of all races, creeds, colors and religions into harms way, and they are doing fantastic things for this country, and ...
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