Back on Father’s Day 2011 I wrote an article entitled, “Mother’s Day doesn’t come with a disclaimer, so STOP doing it on Father’s Day,” and now I’m back this Mother’s Day to acknowledge three fathers who have raised and/or are raising their child(ren) and have provided and/or are providing the majority of care for their little one(s).
The first two fathers I’ll have to mention only by example, because I don’t have permission from them to use their names and/or photos in this article, and I don’t want to disrespect their privacy.
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This Twitter conversation started with the following tweet:
Students and teachers can purchase Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 for less than $150: bit.ly/aChcoe #examiner
— Faydra Deon (@faydra_deon) May 2, 2013
In reply to it, @dioninfinite tweeted me the following:
OK, I’m being melodramatic, and I didn’t complete the title. It should say…
Oh, no! I’ve forgotten how to read physical books.
So here’s what happened…
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I started doing web design/development back in 1999 when I was in the Army. At my first duty station, they made me a Webmaster and sent me to my first HTML-coding class.
Since then, I’ve graduated from an application called FirstPage to Microsoft FrontPage to Macromedia Dreamweaver to Adobe Dreamweaver to WordPress/JOOMLA!/Drupal to using Dreamweaver and WordPress/JOOMLA!/Drupal together as a web designer/developer.
Then there’s
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I’ve been featured on RollingOut.com. Check me out: http://v1s.it/fayonRO.
I got a chance to talk about what I do, why I do it and what inspires me to do it. I also talk about the future of publishing.
Let me know what you think of it.
You know, I could be totally wrong, and I’m definitely not an expert on the subject, but I’m going to venture to assert that the reason our levels of stress increase as we get older is because we give up so many of the things that gave us simple pleasures when we were younger.
I would also assert that we get older, and we have so many more choices, that we think we have to give up simple pleasures because we’re supposed to be thinking more complex thoughts.
Over the past several years I’ve been trying to get back to the simple pleasures I used to enjoy.
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Instead of writing an actual post, I decided to just embed the tweets I generated on this subject. They pretty much cover everything I would have written in my post. 
Just once, if someone said, “Please view my Facebook page? If you like it, consider clicking “Like,” I might consider doing it, but…
— Faydra Deon (@faydra_deon) August 13, 2012
when I get these requests that say, “Go to Facebook and “like” my page,” I totally ignore them without ever visiting those pages.
— Faydra Deon (@faydra_deon) August 13, 2012
There’s very little integrity in the “Like” system, as far as I’m concerned, because people don’t care if you actually like what’s there.
— Faydra Deon (@faydra_deon) August 13, 2012
They just want you to click the button. I won’t even get started on the fact that you can buy “likes” and barter for “likes.”
— Faydra Deon (@faydra_deon) August 13, 2012
@faydra_deon Ditto. Does anyone actually obey?— Holly Worton (@hollyworton) August 13, 2012
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@hollyworton I would say people who don’t realize their friendship is being abused actually go and click “Like.”— Faydra Deon (@faydra_deon) August 13, 2012
@faydra_deon It would be easier to buy likes than to irritate potential likers.— Holly Worton (@hollyworton) August 13, 2012
@faydra_deon The one that annoys me is when people you don’t know on twitter tell you to retweet them. Really grinds my gears.— Atane Ofiaja (@atane) August 13, 2012
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@atane Yes! That seems to be cropping up more, too: People requesting you retweet their content blindly or people who tweet you with…— Faydra Deon (@faydra_deon) August 13, 2012
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@atane “Hey, I’ve been retweeting a lot of your stuff. Could you retweet my stuff?” Like I asked them for retweets. Let’s make a deal…— Faydra Deon (@faydra_deon) August 13, 2012
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@atane Only retweet my updates if you find value in them and think others may also, and I’ll do the same for you. We won’t beg each other.— Faydra Deon (@faydra_deon) August 13, 2012
(the above tweet actually contains a typo that I corrected when I embedded the tweet on my site; apologies for the typo)
Let’s make a deal: I won’t ever ask you to blindly “like” anything I have on the web, and you will return the favor. How does that sound?
— Faydra Deon (@faydra_deon) August 13, 2012
@faydra_deon That sounds great
— TEDDY A JONES (@TeddyAJones) August 13, 2012
@faydra_deon If I’m in touch with the person on another site and I like them, then I’m happy to connect elsewhere. But not out of the blue.— Holly Worton (@hollyworton) August 13, 2012
@faydra_deon@hollyworton I’m happy to go to a page, have a look and click like— Diana Harrison (@DMHarrison123) August 13, 2012
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@dmharrison123:@faydra_deon@hollyworton I’m happy to go to a page, have a look and click like— Faydra Deon (@faydra_deon) August 13, 2012
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@dmharrison123:@faydra_deon@hollyworton I’m happy to go to a page, have a look and click like— Faydra Deon (@faydra_deon) August 13, 2012
@faydra_deon I wonder if these people also lack social grace and etiquette in real life. Do they demand things from people on the street?— Atane Ofiaja (@atane) August 13, 2012
Another reason I don’t click “like” on ANYTHING is because I’m being tracked enough on the web without allowing Facebook to track me more.
— Faydra Deon (@faydra_deon) August 13, 2012
The “like” system is equivalent to using those grocery store club cards. Everything you “like” is being indexed to “sell” you other stuff.
— Faydra Deon (@faydra_deon) August 13, 2012
It’s one of the same reasons I don’t use my Facebook login to log into other sites. Why would I want Facebook knowing what I buy online?
— Faydra Deon (@faydra_deon) August 13, 2012
(the above tweet actually contains a typo that I corrected when I embedded the tweet on my site; apologies for the typo)
It doesn’t benefit me at all to allow Facebook into that part of my life. They get all the benefit, and I get all the targeted ads.
— Faydra Deon (@faydra_deon) August 13, 2012
Too many people aren’t thinking about why they’re doing this or that online. They’re just thinking about ease of use. Don’t be sheep!
— Faydra Deon (@faydra_deon) August 13, 2012
@faydra_deonLOL… girl you are on a roll with your Facebookisms… I love it!Happy Monday…— Stephanie C. Harper(@SpeakStephanie) August 13, 2012
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@speakstephanie Happy Monday to you, too, sis. I think many folks wish I would go back to autotweets right about now. Haha.— Faydra Deon (@faydra_deon) August 13, 2012
@faydra_deon Yes! I’m with you on that rant. I don’t “like” or use FB to login anywhere else either.#privacyissues— Chela (@ChelaBK) August 13, 2012
The Last Train to Dachau by Robert B. Niklewicz
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Book description from Amazon: The Last Train to Dachau is based on the real life plight of the Miller family during World War II. With the invasion of Poland by the Germans, the story follows the family and their experiences of: the occupation, hunger, cold, and the terror in their home town. This family of five was Polish Catholic, but had a German-like surname. This situation placed them between the Germans, who wanted them to sign a loyalty declaration, which they refused, and the community which assumed that they had. The story tells of the horrors and obstacles that they faced and had to overcome to stay together and live. Emilia, Alicia and Leszek are children that spend most of their youth surviving both the physical and emotional stresses of war. Wladyslawa, the mother, is a worker in a Red Cross shelter during the day, but often had to travel at night to find black market food for her family. Wiktor, the father, was conscripted to a labor train after the surrender of Warsaw. He worked under threat of great harm to his family while forced to travel and repair damaged trains and tracks across Poland and Germany. His travels and experiences on a recovery and repair crew gave him an avenue to stay alive while still resisting his oppressors.The intensity of the story increases as the Millers face the brutality of their captors who desperately try to accomplish their “final solution” for all Poles in the closing days of the war. The reader will find it hard to put the book down as the Millers face their fate.
My book review system – 5 points per category:
- Book cover – 5 points
- Cohesive storyline – 5 points
- Spelling/Grammar/Punctuation (SGP) – 2 points – lots of errors
- Character development – 5 points
- Credibility – 5 points
22/5 = 4.4
4-star rating
Learn more about my book review system.
I read a lot.
Before I go to bed, even if it’s 3a, I will take the time to read from my Kindle DX, even if it’s only 10 paragraphs before I find myself dozing off.
Once I read all these books, I really want to do reviews on them, to share some good (and not-so-good) reads with others.
However,
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