Many organizations can use grant writing to fund their projects — Grant writing has become a passion of mine. Helping non-profit organizations do their work seems like the best use of my talents. When I left the tech world, I started writing here, on Medium and I took a couple of writing courses as well. I studied copywriting with Sarah Turner…

Where does Your Nonprofit Fit In? — The main focus of my career is writing grants for nonprofits and small businesses. Part of that work is identifying different nonprofit organizations' funding strategies and funding models. Knowing how a nonprofit works help my work in finding the right grant funders for their work. The following is a summary…

The most common plants and unique animals — Did you know Ukraine was a wild mushroom foragers' dream? One of the major tourist attractions to Ukraine had been their wild mushroom foraging excursions. Ukraine has also been home to many types of storks and brown bears. A new industry around the picking or foraging of wild mushrooms in…

What Will 2022 Bring to Rust Programmers — 2022 is looking to be a great year to be a Rust programmer. Rust is not quite mainstream yet, but with its loyal user base and growing use cases around the tech world, it is easy to see how Rust will continue to grow and flourish in 2022. I have…

Buddhist Practice for Today Breath of Fresh Air It makes our own lives so much simpler when we let those who walk among us do whatever they want. When I practice detachment I feel as if my shoulders relax some. Hanging on to others in any fashion will never be successful for any length…

Wild Turkeys — Turkeys are wild and native to North America. Unique the honey bee that was imported into North America the wild turkey evolved in the ecosystems throughout North America. Here are some things I found out about wild turkeys of North America. In 49 states (apart from Alaska), sections of Mexico…

First in a series of AI writing experiments with Writesonice — Jaron was a young man who always looked on the bright side of things. He was always full of hope, and believed that anything was possible. One day, he was walking through a field, when he came across an anvil. There was a sword driven into it. The sword was…

Quora Digest after 3 months — have been writing on Medium for about a year now. Recently, three months back I wanted to try out Quora and see what would happen with my audience. On Medium my engagement suffered, of course. Since I have not been writing as much on Medium my engagement has steadily decreased…

Arriving in Portland Oregon Soon — RustConf will run from 9:30 am to 5:30 pm; exact schedule details will be posted soon. All times in UTC-7. RustConf is the website link. North America’s most popular Rust Programming Conference is coming soon. Rust Conf 2022 is being held again in Portland Oregon at the beginning of August…