My friend and colleague with the talent as an artist has started her own website! Check it out. So far she has just a few images up, but she intends to paint regularly and offer her work online. One of our readers bought her still life of pears when it went online here at FaM. It’s a miniature—6 x 6, I think—and I believe that, at least at the outset, most of what will go up at her site will be 6 x 6 or 5 x 7 canvases.
Evan has a really interesting article—actually, one of several home runs in a row—at My Journey to Millions, suggesting that if you run low on cash, interest charges on the reviled credit card may actually cost you less than a bank overdraft charge.
In the “some people’s kids” department, get a load of this astonishing story from Donna Freedman over at Surviving and Thriving. I thought I had the all-time winning house-sitter story (maybe sometime I’ll tell it to you), but this one may cap mine.
Like Evan, Revanche has posted several interesting pieces at A Gai Shan Life over the past few days. Don’t miss her awesome photos of Chicago, and then scroll up and down to the several posts on either side.
At Out of Debt Again, Mrs. Accountability is bracing for the cold & flu season with a long list of natural remedies. Check out her fun guest post at The Digerati Life, by the way.
Over at Passage des Perles, Duchesse has a wardrobe challenge going. What I’d like to know is this: is it easier for men to restrict their wardrobes than for women to do so? On the face of it, one might imagine so…think of all the men we love who would happily spend the rest of their lives in a pair of shorts, a T-shirt, and a pair of zorries. But even though the suit and tie men wear to work is basically a uniform, one wonders.
Mary at Simply Forties is headed back to visit her hometown after a couple of footloose years. Ogod. While you’re at that site, don’t miss this amazing thing.
There’s SO much more out there. But I’ve gotta get going. Cassie the Corgi is throwing her ball at me, and I’ve got a full, FULL day ahead of me. Why don’t you share your favorite links of the week in the comments?
Thanks for linking to my posts! 🙂
I haven’t heard the word “zorries” in about 40 years!!! the kids now a days call them flip flops, but at least I knew what you meant!!
wow Thanks I am so happy you have like my recent stuff! I have been writing more and more from the heart rather than just talking about specific products/estate planning techniques
@ Evan: I do like the new stuff. My personal preference (which is no doubt far from universal) is to learn about people’s lives, and along the way to learn about how they handle finances or how our lives can be informed by knowledge of financial issues.
Zorries! That was what I thought too! Growing up in So. California we wore Zorries – looks like there are THREE of us who still know what they are 🙂 LOL! Thanks FAM for the time warp!
@ The Zorri Ladies: How funny! Who would think a word that was hot at the height of the Cretaceous would go extinct?
To my mind, flip-flops can be leather, and they don’t have to be thongs. They can be any flat, thin-soled backless sandal that’s not a clog. Zorries are rubber (although I think the name may derive from the Japanese term for those Asian sandals with straw mat soles). All parts of a Zorri are made of rubber, so you can wear them wading in the surf, around the pool, or in a public shower.
I haven’t belonged to the MLA for many years, but I got a notice that the theme of this year’s Convention will be “The Academy in Hard Times.”
OOPS–comment was supposed to go w/ the pic of the car!
Thanks for the link, Funny — and I posted a dying-tree update today:
http://tinyurl.com/25j87uu