Woman to Woman
I buried the lede in my Friday post. It wasn’t until the bottom of the post that I asked what I thought was an important question about working moms. Jennifer Gish’s Parent to Parent blog has quite the...
View ArticleMissing Stella D’oro
Jim Dwyer’s recent About New York column in the New York Times laments the loss of the Stella D’oro plant in the Bronx. I’m going to miss smelling that wonderful aroma wafting from the factory next...
View ArticleBrother, can you spare $95,000?
The New York Times profiles a journalism student from my alma mater who is going to graduate in three months with $95,000 in debt … so he’s applying for food stamps. He says he’s only made $4,000 in...
View ArticleShopping, shmopping
Welcome to Cyber Monday! In case you missed Black Friday, when more people hit the stores according to this Wall Street Journal report but spent less, today’s the day to catch up. Although I was never...
View ArticleThe Best Gift Ever
Whether you celebrate Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Solstice, Festivus or Snow Days, do you remember the best gift you ever received? Or is the one that got away still fresh in your mind? Funny, but I...
View ArticleMusings After a DC Weekend
I understand why they needed help from North Country Snow and Ice to get rid of the massive amounts of snow that covered Washington, DC and Maryland last month. As I visited DC this weekend, weeks...
View ArticleFly Me To The Moon
Fly me to the moon … only if you improve air travel around the earth. Can you imagine paying for extra leg room, food, and baggage for a lunar landing, when it’s already outrageous here on terra firma?...
View ArticleWhat would get you to …
… open your wallet a little more after you’ve already bought tickets to a fundraiser? I could use your advice here. I’m coordinating silent and live auction items for two upcoming events. I realized...
View ArticleWhen do you expect to retire?
Watching and reading reports of the protests in France over reforming the pension system (including increasing the age of retirement from 60 to 62), I was reminded of a discussion I heard in one of my...
View ArticleDog vs. Skunk: Round 2
I blogged about Dog vs. Skunk: Round 1 last year around this time. We learned a very important lesson when the bell rang for Round 2 this weekend: when the dog appears at the back porch door foaming at...
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