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Affordable Care Act and the Freelance Artist
This webinar is FREE provided by the Graphic Artist Guild, but you must register to participate. FREE Webinar Wednesday, December 12 at 2 p.m. EST (1 p.m. CST, noon MST, 11 a.m. PST) The enrollment period for health insurance via the public exchanges has been shortened by an additional two weeks, ending on December 15. But the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is still around, and with a change in House leadership, probably not going anywhere. So how does the changing political landscape affect your ability to access – and afford – health insurance? We’ll discuss how freelancers can enroll in health coverage and what the forecast is for health insurance…
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Effective Medical Treatment for Migraines
A migraine is not a headache. It is a neurological condition that affects the central nervous system. Those who do not suffer migraines dismiss them as the whines of malingerers. Those who get them want to put those people in a chair and hit them in the head with a spike so they can see how it feels. Migraine pain is said by many to be worse than natural childbirth. I have been a migraine patient for 25 years (chronic for eight) and gave birth to my first child a year and a half ago. Hands down, a migraine is more painful than labour and birth (including the episiotomy, lateral…
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Brain Fog
You used to be able to do long division in your head. Now you can’t do simple math on paper. You always knew what time it was, never needed a watch, and had the entire television schedule memorized. No one bought a TV Guide because they had you. Now you can’t keep up with your favorite shows because you can’t remember the storylines. Or when they were on. You never had to study because one pass over a book and you had it down. Now you can barely remember what you’ve read a half hour after you put the book away. You write for a living, but you stumble over…