The 60-year-old data analyst is well-known in Guatemala’s business community, especially after he helped modernize the banking industry by bringing ATMs to the country 20 years ago. But even as the then-40-year-old’s career was blossoming, his muscles were beginning to fail him. In 1998, Knoke (pronounced kuh-NO-kuh) was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, and was told he had two years to live.
What are your thoughts on this important topic, education for undocumented immigrants? There is an easy “Ten Word response” we often hear from politicians who give us the Ten-word answers to complicated issues like health care and immigration. Yes, “repeal Obamacare” but replace it with What? Not so easily done as this congress has just demonstrated. Now wisdom tells us we need to fix what is not working with ATC and not throw out the healthy aspects of this legislation.
It was a cloudy Sunday morning in July when I drove to my client’s house in Durham. I had been missing my Asheville friends. That cute little mountain town had been the first stop in my relocation to North Carolina. I was easing my way back to the East Coast after ten years of living in Southern California and Asheville was my baby step towards living in the south. As a Tarot card reader and Massage therapist it was easier to find my tribes in quirky, laid back towns like these. Raleigh became a destination because I wanted to be closer to my family; namely my niece and nephew.