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Job changes – I usually hate them, because I don’t like change, even when I’m moving from a tough and/or boring job to a much better one. Today, I’ll resign from the local grocery store where I’ve stocked lunchmeat for the past 2 months (because no one needed a technical trainer). It’s been both tough and boring – physically demanding and mentally dreary. But I earned a bit of money, which slowed the hemorrhaging of our finances, and now I’m a “short-timer”.
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Public schools have demonstrated an impressive ability to move and flex with the most trying times. The abrupt end of the school year and transition from the classroom to online learning has had its snags and hiccups, but the reports I’m hearing are increasingly positive as it relates to smooth instruction and student satisfaction. Student “attendance” is spotty and many students don’t attend their online class time, however, those who do seem to like, or at least not mind, connecting with their teachers virtually.
Read moreTexans have been witnessing things that would have been unthinkable until now: Surge teams, testing of nursing homes for COVID-19 and the National Guard helping to disinfect nursing home facilities around the state.
Read moreGovernor Greg Abbott issued a proclamation naming May as Older Texans Month.
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AUSTIN — Texas, along with the rest of the nation and the world, continued to battle the COVID-19 pandemic last week as cases and deaths attributed to the novel coronavirus increased.
Read moreSpeaker Pelosi has designated the House of Representatives an unessential business. With our country in the midst of the worst public health and economic crisis in a century, she has refused to call the chamber to order.
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Here’s another fun recipe from our dear friend Nadine. I say “our friend” because you are free to like her too, which you would if you could meet her. Nadine has sent me several of her best recipes and this one looks like it’s delicious – so let’s try it together, shall we? Let me know how yours goes.
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