Monthly Archives: December 2011

“Your Porch Roof Is Collapsing”

Back to doom, this week, my friends. December 31, 2011 Living in a 112-year-old house, no matter how well built, is a series of financial adventures.  Late fall, over a year ago, after the leaves had fallen from the trees, … Continue reading

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Happy Holidays

December 24, 2011 No doom, today.  Just a little Christmas story that I wrote after a discussion with a seven-year-old a while back that, oddly enough, had nothing to do with Christmas. Best wishes for a happy holiday season and … Continue reading

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Can They, Will They and Why Would They?

December 17, 2011 Much ado has been made, the last couple of weeks, about the so-called Indefinite Detention clauses in the National Defense Authorization Act passed by Congress this week, of President Obama’s reversal of his promise to veto it, … Continue reading

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Insults, Insults Everywhere …

November 10, 2011 In reading through the news this week, it seems to have been a week of insults, great and small, both here and around the world. The actor, Alex Balwin, who was apparently removed from an airplane last … Continue reading

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Comfort Food

December 3, 2011 Winters always mean comfort food, to me.  A pot of vegetable-beef soup simmering on the stove (though in this economy it’s usually vegetable-hamburger soup).  Corned beef with cabbage, potatoes and carrots (again, with hamburger in this economy). … Continue reading

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