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Do Your Census Today!

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Today is National Census Day!

One of the few things that isn’t canceled is the Census.  The U.S. Census Bureau is urging residents to complete the Census online or over the phone to lessen the need for in-person, door-to-door outreach while the country grapples with the coronavirus outbreak, preferably by today.  It’s available in 13 languages at my2020census.gov or by calling (844) 330-2020. Additional toll-free numbers in other languages can be found online.  If you already received a mailer, it contains a Census ID number you can use to log in online, which the Census Bureau recommends as the fastest method. You can still respond online even if you haven’t received the number or lost it.  It takes only ten minutes to do and can be done while social distancing at home!

With all the social distancing I have been doing later, it has made me even more grateful for the services supporting my community like grocery stores, pharmacy, and restaurants.  I am also thankful for public libraries.  Although all of them in my area are closed, my library – bpl.org- offers a wealth of free online resources that are available to me and my community.

All of these things are made possible for communities with accurate counts from the Census.

So, do your census today!

It reminds of a quote from Zadie Smith’s book, Feel Free:

“Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.”

 

2019: My Year In Review

I posted the top ten blog posts my readers seem to like reading based on my website metrics.  A few of them are articles I wrote before 2019.

Happy Holidays and without further ado:

  1. Advice on Craft Business Selling
  2. ACT-UP, Gran Fury & The Legacy of HIV/AIDS Activist Branding
  3. Pride Is About Authentic Accountability
  4. Review: Algiers, Third World Capital
  5. What’s Cooking: Jollof Rice
  6. Things To Do Before Hiring A Ghostwriter
  7. Pose: Race and Ball Culture
  8. On Slave Plantations and Revisionist History
  9. What Mass Incarceration in America Looks Like
  10. Why You Should Care About Real Hate Crimes

What I Am Thankful For

There are a lot of things for me to be thankful for this year!

  1. I am good, healthy, and happy
  2. My family is good, healthy, and happy!
  3. Global Wire Associates is going strong as we enter our 15th year in business!
  4. My friend hired me as a writer on a documentary about the women of the civil rights movement that will premiere on a major cable network next year
  5. A book I have been editing on Caribbean plays for a new author will finally be published soonish…
  6. While I have been doing bag making through my online bespoke, Vanguard Design, for many years, I started doing more craft and art shows this year to much success!
  7. I am thankful for being able to be me!

The Great Canadian Adventure

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For the first time in a very long time, I went on a week-long vacation to Canada (to plan my escape plan just in case Trump is re-elected next year... I'm kidding...not really...) I am so busy with some work sometimes that I forget that I need to breathe, let alone take some time off.

So I took a train trip on the Rocky Mountaineer, which is a Canadian luxury train.  We traveled from Vancouver to Banf, a town an hour outside Calgary.  The Rocky Mountains were so majestic to look at.  Everything I saw looked like a postcard.  I even saw a couple of bears!

Enjoy some photos I took from the train!

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