7 Ways to Communicate With the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing
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7 Ways to Communicate With the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing

Dear Pop, My twelve-year-old son is near deaf. He feels isolated from his peers and family. What can I do to make people understand his unique communication needs? Worried Mom Dear Worried Mom, Helen Keller, the deaf and blind American author and political activist, once wrote, “Blindness separates us from things, but deafness separates us…

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Thought Provoking Short Stories

Anne Loader McGee, author of Anni’s Attic and the Cedar Creek Mystery Series, has accumulated six short stories in an eighteen-page e-book. They are strange tales that will remind readers of myths or legends from their youth. “Love Song of the Waterfall” is a good example. It’s a sad story about a Maori Maiden who dies…

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The Last Starbase: The Search for a Home

The Last Starbase is book 3 in the Sons of Neptune series. Shane, Sam, and company discover an ancient starship, the Praihawk, buried in the Artic and plan to use it to get help from their ancestors of long ago. The Peak, a refugee stronghold established by Shane and Sam, is attracting survivors of the alien…

Revenge of the Spiders: An Excellent Sequel
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Revenge of the Spiders: An Excellent Sequel

Revenge of the Spiders is book 2 in Rod Little’s four book series, Sons of Neptune. In book one, Earthweeds, the novel’s two protagonist brothers, Shane and Sam, return from a mountain hunting trip to find their home has been invaded by large man-eating lizards created by the Sayans, an alien race of humanoids. The young…

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Whatever Happened to the Republican Party?

The first Republican president was Abraham Lincoln who served from 1861-1865. In 1860, the Republican platform called for the end of slavery in the United States and the preservation of the Union, amongst other declarations. One such proclamation encouraged immigration to America with full rights to all immigrant citizens.Another was issued on January 1, 1863…

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Why Matzah?

Dear Pop, Last year I was invited to my first Passover Seder at a home in Encino. I really enjoyed myself as everyone read from the Haggadah, the spiritual text, but that matzah.  Why do Jews eat that tasteless, flour/water flatbread for eight days and why do some Jews have two Seders? Curious Christian Dear…

Apocalypse Now
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Apocalypse Now

In the science fiction fantasy, Earthweeds,Shane and Sam are brothers. Shane is in college and Sam is about to finish high school. Each summer the boys escape for a few weeks into the wilderness outside of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania to hunt and evade the hustle and bustle of the real world. This year, when the boys…