Editor's Desk - Liz Woods

(Ack!  I promise I'll get a better picture.  I looked at a lot better in the preview!)

Anyway.. here's the deal.
 

I believe that we as a country have been dealt a truly black hand in a lot of ways the past 4 years.  I call the worse of it: the news blackout. Finally, it's over!  

**Full disclosure, I'm a Christian and a  big Trump fan, so I say Thank God we can not only make America great again, we can talk again!!**
 

But how?  How do we talk again from sources we can trust, from people we can trust?  The short answer is this little website called LW Writer Almanac. 

The long answer is I went back to Benjamin Franklin who faced the same problem.  He had a lot he wanted to say, but politics and an older brother who owned the only press he had access to being what they were in his time, a big NO, he was stuck in a news blackout just like me.  

So he took his ideas and them with news, witty sayings, quotes, weather forecasts, and a popular serial in a little pamphlet he printed called "Poor Richard, AN Almanack."  There's no rhyme or reason in the way he put all this together.  People just looked around for what they wanted to read. 

Today's reader might look at it and thing wow... the editor has proper grammar and spelling issues.  But in a time before People magazine and Webster's Dictionary Poor Richard's almanac was revolutionary and it made Franklin today's equivalent of a millionaire when he was still a young man!  

I'm much too old to be a young man, and as a bona-fide female: a real one, I'm happy to break the glass ceiling. What matters to me is getting the word out.  

We're free.. free at last!! 

Blessings,

Liz W