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I think a lot of people sleep on the City Colleges of Chicago (CCC), but I found one of their best-kept secrets: their aviation program. While researching drone classes in Chicago, search results for CCC’s aviation program appeared. And while I did not conduct extensive research into the program offerings, I was excited to see…
Just wanted to share the new flyer for the Branding & Book Marketing for Authors workshop that will be held on from 9:30 am to 12:30 on Saturday, May 13, 2017 at Columbia College. It was a designed by fellow Chicago Writers Association board member, Christina Rodriguez. Let me know if you need her info…
I’m the Education Program Coordinator for Chicago Writers Association and we are holding our second educational workshop, Branding & Book Marketing for Authors, on Saturday, May 13, 2017. This is a partnership with the Creative Writing Department of Columbia College Chicago. Two CWA members, Sara Connell and Don Gingold, will teach authors how to sell…
The Book Industry Charitable Foundation (Binc) Scholarship Program seeks to truly make a positive impact in book store employees’ lives and in our former Borders Group employees’ lives by offering scholarships to employees and their dependents based on financial need, academic performance and community involvement. Scholarships are offered for full- or part-time study at an…
If so, here’s your chance to return them for FREE through September 7, 2012. That’s right. You can return any items that belong to the Chicago Public Library – books, CDs, DVDs, LPs or cassette tapes (yes, I said cassette tapes) – without having to pay late fees. If you have lost books, you can…
Between my main two reads, I am re-reading The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson (215 page) and checking out Law of Success by Napoleon Hill (599 pages). It didn’t dawn on me the power I had in my hands until I really looked at the titles: The Mis-Education of the Negro and…
This is a literary observation I found during my research. Take the time to read to your child(ren). If you don’t have any children, I can assure you that there is one close by who would love for you to do so. Image: ababycare
And I must say that this book is deep that it is taking at least 10 minutes to read ONE page. Oh my goodness, that’s so heavy stuff. Carter G. was so highly enlightened that he started Chapter 1, the introduction, with “Brought from the African wilds to constitute the laboring class of a pioneering…
From Marcie Hill: This story is being re-published with a few revisions because it is a topic that is really on my heart right now. I am going to go on a limb here to discuss something that we will probably NEVER see on TV – the cost of educating a child versus the cost…