Education

Freelancing: Not For The Faint of Heart (or Wallet)

By Huckleberry Press / January 6, 2022 /
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I lost my job on a sunny July day in 2017. I was 48, a single mom, and loaded with medical debt. Days before, a tumultuous breakup had left a crater in my life. That one-two punch plunged me into terror and poverty. Though I had a modest savings account, I feared it wouldn’t last.

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Lost Money, Found

By Huckleberry Press / April 21, 2021 /

Have you ever put on a jacket you haven’t worn in a while, reached your hand in the pocket, and found $10? Were you surprised? Or maybe you’ve gone to vacuum under your couch cushions and found some loose change?

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Life is full of surprises, isn’t it?!

By Huckleberry Press / March 5, 2021 /

While visiting my youngest sister in the town of my youth, I answered a late night video call from my other sister who our mother is visiting across the country, and there’s a solemn request for the two of us to enter a super secret cone of silence for this conversation.

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Turn and face the Strange Ch-Ch-Changes

By Huckleberry Press / August 20, 2020 /

The season is changing. Shorter days. Cool mornings. Summer is fading way making way for fall’s bounties. The heat lovers and sun worshippers feel this change with sadness, but not me.

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Exploring the Metaphysical through Crystals and Gemstones

By Huckleberry Press / June 10, 2020 /

Metaphysics studies questions related to what it is for something to exist and what types of existence there are.

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Five Reasons to Embrace Homeschooling

By Huckleberry Press / June 8, 2020 /

Across the Inland Northwest, families are doing some variation of what they are calling homeschooling

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Got the Home Schooling Blues?

By Huckleberry Press / June 6, 2020 /

Assisting children in Grades 1 to 4 with reading fluency, reading comprehension, and decoding words so that they experience success and confidence.

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Got the Home Schooling Blues?

By Huckleberry Press / April 15, 2020 /

I’m a retired school teacher with a passion for kids–my social network for years. My classroom was my canvas.

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Tackling Your New Year’s Resolutions: Money!

By Huckleberry Press / January 24, 2020 /

You’ve got this! 2020 is your year to be in control of your finances.

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Future Farmers of America

By Huckleberry Press / November 2, 2019 /

by Kendyl Wiley, as delivered to the 2019 Farm to Table Dinner, Davenport, WA  Starting as early as age three, we begin our education. We are eased in at first…

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