by Amanda Read Sheik | Aug 25, 2009 | Latitude 821, Politics, World Views
“I’m sure we’ve all heard some variation of the fact before: the average Muslim family has 8.1 children, while the American birth rate barely reaches the bare minimum for a culture to survive beyond 25 years – 2.11 children – and that is counting the influx of Latino...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Aug 18, 2009 | Latitude 821, World Views
Are you prepared for the drama…the romance…the comedy…of the original science fiction story? Ironically, it happens to be a true story. Sit right back and you’ll hear how the unbelievable hypothesis became the darling tale of a once scientific Western Civilization....
by Amanda Read Sheik | Aug 15, 2009 | Literary Projects, World Views
Here is my first video introduction to the Luke Historians project. I would like to do more in depth videos some day, but decided to keep this one brief and to the point. I wasn’t reading off of notes or a teleprompter…and the quality of the film after...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Jul 28, 2009 | Latitude 821
“Why do you always wear dresses? Don’t you wear pants, ever?” queried my grandmother, affectionately called “LaLa” by all of us grandchildren. My mother’s stepmother always liked nicely styled things, from hair cuts to earrings, so questioning my clothes was something...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Jul 20, 2009 | Journal, Literary Projects, The Crusading Chemist
For years I’ve stuck with the tagline, “You may simply call me an aspiring writer…”, but I know there must come a time when I am no longer an aspiring writer, but a working writer. I’ve authored a screenplay (which I hope to revise...
