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Website updated with new backend code
September 23, 2019
I recently added a new section to the site, called My Writings. That section contains miscellaneous stuff that I have written - poems, essays, general ramblings that are not included in the typical blogs. I also set up a directory listing of all the English lessons I have written over the past 6 years of teaching English as a foreign language. And I have made a change to the blogs pages, as you may have noticed here on this home page. It now shows only the most recent/current blog. The previous blogs are in the section called "Old Blogs". I have also set up the site to be backed by a database so the blogs are being fed from the DB, as well as the other pages. Only the English lessons page isn't coming from the DB, it is a listing of a directory on the server. All of these changes should result in a faster loading site. I hope.
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Formatting text in Facebook
September 7, 2019
In Facebook there are no options for formatting the text you use when typing a new status update to your timeline, or wall, or whatever it's called. And depending on your message, that sucks. For years now I've been posting lessons on my Chip's English Help facebook profile in just plain boring text. I don't like converting all those lessons to graphics which people then have to download. At least with my text lessons the person can simply copy/paste the entire lesson into a file on their computer. That's much easier for saving the lessons. And gives them the ability to edit them if they want to.
But there is a way to do some formatting to your Facebook text. I found a couple websites that have some formatting tools. The formatting options are extensive but they are a far cry better than none at all.
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New section on the site
September 6, 2019
If you haven't noticed there is a new menu option at the top of the page - My Writings. This is a section where I will be putting my miscellaneous writings and ramblings, poems, essays, etc. Please leave comments on anything you read there.
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I Chose the other Path
September 1, 2019
Sometimes you find yourself on a path you didn't intend to take, but that doesn't mean it won't take you to a wonderful place.
Sometimes you find yourself on a path you did intend to take, but that doesn't mean it will take you to a wonderful place.
Sometime you might choose to take a different path, the path less taken, less popular, but that doesn't mean it won't take you someplace wonderful.
Sometime you will have to make a choice - the path to the left? The path to the right? Which should I choose? How do I decide? Do I go down the popular, well-trodden path? Or the path with many uncertainties?
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The healing path
August 25, 2019
Life is full of negativity, it is full of bad experiences, but what do you do when you confront adverse situations in your life?
I learned in that terrible year after the death of my wife what not to do.
I learned from the many deaths in my family that a person cannot live if he/she closes himself to everyone close to him.
That is what I did in that year that turned into a living hell. I hope you who are reading this will not do what I did if you find yourself in a life-changing situation. I hope you will read on and find out what I did to get on the path to healing.
After such a difficult time in life, we need to be open to other people. We need to talk to other people. We need to get the feelings out of our mind and out in the air.
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