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How long will the virus live at room temperature...i.e., outside the body?

Thanks,

Ken Hawkins

posted 3 years, 8 months ago
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Illiteracy is an "invisible shame" that haunts many throughout their lives. As a photojournalist I had occasion to work on a piece for a national magazine about a chef in Atlanta who was coming out with a new cookbook - a sort of a Julia Child meets soul food volume.

The man and I became friends and over the course of a few months - over lunch -the author confided to me that he was functionally illiterate.

As I laughed I saw the look in his eyes..and he was crying.

My new friend never learned to read or write and here he was - a published author!

He had a "background collaborator" who wrote the text of the book as the chef spoke.

Soon after our lunch, my friend found a mentor who over the course of a year, and taught him to both read and write.

Flashing forward several years, my friend came out with a new cookbook....one that he had written solely by himself.

He now mentors illiterate adults in Atlanta.

posted 4 years ago
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