Hello, my name is Keri Culver

​I am an international evaluator and writer.

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Flash Fiction Friday – 14 Feb 2017

Flash Fiction Friday – 14 Feb 2017

14 February 2017. For Chuck Wendig's weekly Flash Fiction prompt. My Random Number Generator chose 10. Long way home. April hoisted her lumpy backpack up on her bony shoulders. It should have weighed more. The dehydrated food packs she’d selected and tallied at the...

Warsaw in January

Warsaw in January

How lovely to hear Chopin in the park, at the touch of a button! The benches have really good acoustics - you can click on the pic to hear a piece from a good videographer called Happy Data Scientist (I'm not kidding) on YouTube. This is the Chopin memorial in the...

Is it a Muslim ban, or isn’t it?

Is it a Muslim ban, or isn’t it?

Let's go to the who, what, when, where, why and how of the Executive Order (EO). No, I'm not a journalist, but rather a social scientist, which Trump would probably still find Bad. Or Sad. Or whatever it is he says. Anyway: WHAT: Temporary ban, with leeway to expand...