The Family I Never Knew
All my life I was told by Grandma Regina that she lost her entire family in the Holocaust. Grandma, my mother’s mother, was from Warsaw. She escaped the slaughter by coming to the United States at the turn of the century. Before the Holocaust, in Poland, Jews were the...
read moreHow I Got Amazon to Remove a Negative Review About My Book!
Here is the exception that I found useful and why I was successful in getting a very negative review of my book taken down:
The review was personal. It was vicious, and full of distortions and slanderous comments. This was not a book review. Rather, it was a personal attack on me.
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The Task of Updating My Internet Research Presentation
My Internet research presentation was born in 2009 shortly after my book came out. It was related as Taking Aim was created out of intensive research for people and events 30 years earlier. It is not historical fiction as there is nothing fictional about it. It could...
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We Can Do Better With Healthcare For Our Citizens
Long before Congress passed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010, San Francisco offered affordable healthcare to all residents. The Healthy San Francisco program costs are substantially less than private health insurance plans. Tse Dong Chow, a typical user, is...
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Where to Start: How I Begin researching my articles
I get asked a lot about how I begin my research on a new article. Well, I tell you, it depends on the topic. However, some tasks are always the same. I always begin with secondary research. What is that, you say? It is what has already been written, if anything. What...
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How I became a journalist
I have never taken a course in journalism. Some would characterize my development as a news person as having been “organic.” What does that even mean? Well, I’ll just tell you my story and you can decide if it makes sense. Let me go way back to the beginning of my...
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