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UPDATE: Hurricane Irma is a very challenging storm, category 5 winds and rain. It expands over 400 miles, and is defined as the biggest storm on U.S. record. Florida families are preparing to evacuate. Most schools are now closed until further notice.  Pop-up shelters are needed. Shelter facilities' main goal is to provide the very basic of human needs and wants.It is suggested that families stay at a hotel/motel, with family, or friends. All families are advised to take picture of important documents.  Whenever possible, during picture taking, create duplicate pics. Store a set of pics in a waterproof or fireproof container or area. Neighbor o' Neighbor-- Let's help in an organized and productive fashion:  What's needed? Who's going? When are they going? Where is the drop-off point(s)? From the many social-media posts that I have seen, there are many neighbors, all around the country, who are willing to provide donations and manpower. Before we all get exc...

It's Back-To-School Time for most students. Hashtag #WhereIsThisEducationTakingMe is my current hosted social theme (8/22-9/22). Local governments and communities, of the U.S., are debating the pros and cons of the public-school and college-brand models (private and state colleges). In my opinion, all school models should have adequate heating and cooling. Not every old-school building has proper insulation. This means that we have school-buildings that are more challenging to heat and cool: more expensive to keep open than building energy-efficient schools. There is also the issue of the decline of young families in our local communities. Millennials aren't producing large families like many of us grew up in.  I guess the decline is mainly due to familiarity of such experiences. Experiences that many would say was a little dysfunctional growing up in such a big household. "Is the charter-school model more productive than the public-school?" "Which school m...

Most public schools have now upgraded their cafeteria's meal-buying system.  In many schools, students who do not have adequate funding on their meal-account card go hungry. Meanwhile, bus students complain about arriving too late to eat breakfast at their given school. Bus students believe that it's unfair that their peers, who walk to school, are able to purchase a school breakfast. If students arrive late, to their morning classroom, they often are marked as "absent" or "tardy". Suggestion: If necessary, contact your school's principal, morning teacher, and/or cafeteria manager to make arrangements. You may be referred to speak to your child's guidance counselor, if an ongoing challenge with your child's bus route or financial situation. Along with "How was you day?", add to the conversation by asking your child(ren) what items they chose from their school's cafeteria's menu.

Have you ever considered opening a business? a family business? I have often asked my maternal family "why should we not try?"  Are these some of the answers that you have received when exploring entrepreneurship as a family? Who is reliable enough to do all that is necessary to maintain the everyday activities of running a business? It's too much work, and I'd rather we not. What about retirement?  A full-time job provides a steady paycheck, and there is too much of a risk in running a business. Where is the start-up money going to come from? The sky? Why should I put in more of the start-up money, if I earn more at my job than her/him or you? Being a family member is enough, we don't need to be in business together. Oh no, I am always the one that pays for most family-oriented gatherings now.  Sounds like a business plan, now you go try it if you want to and when you fail or achieve I'll be ---.  (encouraging realizing it takes a lot to run a b...

On Wednesday, August, 2, 2017, Amazon will pursue its goal of hiring 50,000 new employees, nationally--in one day! There are also virtual, customer-service, job opportunities available in various states (not all states). Web URL Link: Amazon.jobs I know that some of you have been in search for the traditional factory job for a while. I guess the Amazon business model is as close as you're going to get. Working in a factory requires constant to-and-from walking actions choosing specific items to package for shipment.  Most often workers must walk on a cement flooring so quality work/comfortable shoes are mandatory.  Amazon still has some work to do in its job-website platform. There are some job opportunities, which were available last year, that are still listed. Maybe those jobs still need to be filled. Never the less, it doesn't give a great impression of their current hiring promotion. Can you imagine 50,000 American citizens applying on the Amazon website at the...