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The Crafty Veteran

• Grace Jones Wrote a Book You Should Read
  For the most part, I am reading purely for pleasure; and I find I want to explore time periods. One of those times periods has a lot to do with wondering what the impact of the world around had on my childhood and thus, the woman I’ve grown to be. I was born in 74, […]
• Book Review: Karen Kingston’s Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui
  Life has been pretty interesting lately. My love and I have gone on a pretty significant life changing journey over the past year and things have been pretty satisfying. A large part of this journey has been dealing with things that were holding us back individually – fears, angers, hurts, all that. You know what […]
• From Wonder Woman to Scully to…Me
  I joined the military in 1992, celebrated my 18th birthday in boot camp, my 21st birthday in a bar in the Caribbean (with a bunch of drunk sailors), and then only one after that on the dry land of the United States, all others were just another day while floating in the middle of the […]
• Viewing Nicki Minaj Differently
  Let me preface this with: I know very little about Nicki Minaj, other than if I was asked about the artists that dress the most outlandish, I’d name her and Lady Gaga; and I’d do so with the respect of understanding they know how to stand out from the rest. Honestly, I couldn’t tell you […]

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• Abusive Practices at Church
  I can’t help but wonder if when John the Baptist started preaching and dunking people in the water, and then some guy named Jesus started walking through the country being kind to the down-trodden, were they seen as cult-leaders (whatever the ancient equivalent term may have been)? Both had followers that believed whole-heartedly in things […]
• Breaking the Cycle of Rural Poverty
  The UN has vowed to wipe out poverty. Its a big goal, and I’m not really sure if its even viable. But while looking at some research on poverty this past week, I ran across the webpage below from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. The page highlights a report they have […]
• Biomedical Informatics Degree Program
  At the beginning of this week, I had the opportunity to go to New York and visit the Scientific Computing Department at Mount Sinai Medical School. The experience was incredible. For those of you that don’t know, Mount Sinai is world renowned for the research that is done at the various labs, institutes and centers. […]
• Why Bernie Sanders Spoke At Conservative Liberty University
  Bernie Sanders is the first Democratic presidential candidate to ever speak at Liberty University’s weekly convocations. And if you haven’t listened to the speech, you really should . There are two reasons to watch this full speech, one being that the majority of speeches we are seeing in full are the Donald and Hillary and […]