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Do You Believe in Chance, Coincidence, or Fate?
A great question! I majored in chemistry and later taught science and computer science courses in both high school and college. I have always considered myself a methodical, logical scientific thinker. Therefore, I should be answering that OF COURSE, chance or coincidence would explain everything that happens to us. How on earth could it possibly…
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Writing Group Essays
I have joined the writing group here in my new home, and I am intending to post a new essay every Wednesday. Tomorrow will be my first attempt. Fall seems to be such a perfect time to begin writing again.
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Anna is finding her PLACE in Charlottesville
We enjoyed reading her prize-winning nonfiction story for the WriterHouse / C-ville Weekly contest! Anna Hennigan Though she’s only 16 years old, youth category winner Anna Hennigan is no stranger to storytelling. “My parents used to read to me before I could talk, and when I was two or three I started babbling stories to…
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Happy 50th Birthday, #BASIC – You were my inspiration!
I first met BASIC in the early 1980s when our new family Commodore 64 came with Introduction to BASIC, Part I. Wow – a machine that I could talk to, that would respond, and that loved logic as much as I did! I was truly hooked, and when the Internet arrived in the early 1990s, I took…
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UVa Coursera: The Modern World: Global History since 1760 _Week 6 Reflection
So glad I signed up for this course! Listening calmly to the lectures without trying to cram for an exam is making this the very best history course that I have ever taken! As an undergraduate
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Learn more about Thomas Jefferson – #TJMOOC – Coursera/UVa FREE course
Age of Jefferson The Thomas Jefferson MOOC offered by the University of Virginia and Monticello is off to a great start, and
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