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As part of my #GoingBackToCollege adventure, I have to make up a couple of courses that the department feels I have not already taken during my life as a college student at various times during my career. This particular course is a 2nd level one called Principles of Management. Now I have taken various levels of classes in the last 25 years and could have sworn that this one was already in the bag if for no other reason than I was a manager at one time. Since I am ineligible for financial assistance due to the many courses I have accumulated over the years I have to pay for this one and the remaining courses for this degree out of my pocket. The least the college could do is to modernize this particular course up to 2023 standards. I'm just saying...

Yes, the purpose of a writer is to keep society from destroying itself. Well, we had all better get on the ball because that is what it seems is truly happening these days. I cannot look at the 'real' news anymore because they do not report 'just the facts' but skew everything to sensationalize or marginalize what they are reporting on depending on the whim of the day. Authors, indeed writers and artists of all kinds, media, philosophies and training are task with helping us all understand and appreciate each other. Indeed, we all wish we can just 'skip to the good part' with a wave of our hands and land somewhere in the Star Trek universe where there is no money, we all learn new things, grow in our personaly journey, perform assigned tasks, have enough to eat and simply get along. Yes, it is a Utopian view point and even they have their problems but the ones about race, creed and color no longer seem to be the driving force of most of society. If you could cre