March 2011

Moments of Fame

March 30, 2011

Lenten thanks, Day 20 Whew! Thanks, God, for keeping the dentist’s bill to about half of what I expected! Lenten thanks, Day 19. oops…missed one! Life is so much better now that I’m not working for the Great Desert University. Thank God for that layoff! The Carnival of Personal Finance moved to Money Beagle this [...]

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Keep? Or Take It Back?

March 29, 2011

So late last week I schlepped to Tempe, there to meet with my friend Tina for lunch and then to get my hair done by a reasonably trustworthy stylist. What I hadn’t counted on: The Mill Avenue Crafts Fair. Augh! This annual event has bloated into a huge affair that calls vendors from all over [...]

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Carnival of Money Stories

March 28, 2011

Hurrah! The Carnival of Money Stories is here! This week we have a nice variety of tales from the financial front. I think you’ll enjoy all the posts here. First, though, I’d like to remind you that the Carnival of Money Stories needs hosts! Mrs. Accountability, our organizer, has put out several calls for hosts [...]

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Can You Support Your Parents?

March 28, 2011

Lenten thanks, Day 18 Thank God for Franklin D. Roosevelt. So the Republicans are getting ready to go after Social Security and Medicare. Some of their followers don’t even seem to be rational. Here’s one who remarks that if Social Security goes, “no one is going to be hurt by it.” Yeah. No one but [...]

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Asparagus cheese torte!

March 27, 2011

Lenten thanks, Day 17 LOL! Thanks, God, for making us hungry and providing plenty of delicious veggies for us to deal with that. Oh yeah: and for coming up with that fire thing so we can cook the stuff. Now, I ripped this idea off from a recent issue of Sunset magazine. The original had [...]

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Who, Me? Rich? What does it mean to be rich, anyway?

March 26, 2011

Lenten thanks: Day 16 (I expect) Thank God for real wealth. I much enjoyed reading a recent post on Intelligent Speculator, whose proprietor asks readers what they consider to be “rich.” It’s a great question, and it elicits an amazing range of answers in the comments section. IS remarks, interestingly, “I will consider myself as [...]

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