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Retiring Anxieties – Plumbing, Health, Government
Use By Dates? Ha! In the midst of tackling yet another anxiety, I found a bottle of (probably haz-mat) stuff that was so old the bottle didn’t have a Use By Date, or a bar code, or (gasp!) even a … Continue reading
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Popular Posts in 2020
Oh, what a year it was. Some of the topics I wrote about where: Politics, a pandemic, wildfires, storms, floods, changes in a social structure (including social media), health care, health insurance, Social Security, tea, writing, science fiction, real estate, … Continue reading
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Tagged anxieties, community, floods, food, frugality, Gig Economy, health care, health insurance, kindness, pandemic, politics, real estate, recovery, rural life, science fiction, shop local, Social Security, storms, sustainability, taxes, tea, wildfires, work from home, writing
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Fascinating Realities
I’m surprised I haven’t told this story before; or maybe I have, but even I can’t find it in the hundreds of thousands of words that comprise this blog. A friend told me a story about his road rage and … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, Covid 19, economy, finance, injustice, pandemic, personal finance, politics, revolution, social injustice
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What Has Not Changed
OK, peoples. I purposely took four days off from work, largely for medical reasons (busy, busy); purposely did so over Election Day because I already voted so there was nothing I could do about the outcome; didn’t really get any … Continue reading
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Tagged civilization, climate change, Covid 19, culture, debt, Dream. Invest. Live., economy, finance, fossil fuels, frugal, frugal folk, frugality, Great Recession, Income Inequality, inequality, mortgage, pandemic, politics, real estate, renewable energy, social injustice, social media, society, unemployment, Wealth Inequality, Whidbey Island
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Do Not Wait Live
Are you still waiting? It’s the week before the US election. There’s a lot of waiting going on. People are waiting for the election, ah, the Electoral College, ah, the start of the new year, ah, the Inauguration, ah, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Art of War, Dalton Realty, economy, frugal folk, frugality, investing, politics, real estate, real estate broker, time
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Voting And Living Simpler
They looked at me oddly. I didn’t care. I almost danced to the Ballot Box, dropped in my ballot – and then danced a few steps. I voted! And it was a lot simpler than the various media outlets make … Continue reading
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Tagged dancing, frugality, investing, mutual funds, personal finance, politics, stocks
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What Did You See
I gave up playing Bridge. Bridge was one of the few card games my family would play as a family, well four of the five of us at a time, of course. We played it as a game. I was … Continue reading
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Tagged community, injustice, personal finance, politics, sustainability
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Weeds In The Community
Oh, come on, people. Pull some weeds. But many don’t. My neighborhood has rules about these things. Curse homeowner’s associations if you will, but I admit that I like some of the rules, like the one about keeping the weeds … Continue reading
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Tagged Dream. Invest. Live., economics, economy, injustice, pandemic, personal finance, politics, science, social injustice, society
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Semi Annual Exercise Mid 2020
Semi Annual Exercise Mid 2020 Six months ago, who thought the world would look like this? (Let me check my notes. Nope. I was reading about but didn’t start writing about the pandemic until February 2020.) Six months from now, … Continue reading
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Tagged AAPL, AMAT, AMSC, climate change, coro, CSCO, FFIV, GERN, injustice, investing, LCTX, MSFT, MVIS, NPTN, pandemic, personal finance, politics, stocks, technology
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After Covid – June 2020 Guesses
It has been happening for the last month, articles about what will be different after Covid-19/coronavirus is done. Most know we won’t go back to the old normal. But no one can accurately predict the future except by chance. Regardless … Continue reading
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Tagged AI, automation, autonomous, coronavirus, health, health care, healthcare, inequality, investing, Microvision, necessities, pandemic, personal finance, politics, real estate, real estate broker, robots, rural distancing, stocks
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